Wenzel Ferdinand Popel von Lobkowitz

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Wenzel Ferdinand Popel von Lobkowitz (born December 16, 1654 in Teplice ; † 1697 ) was an Austrian ambassador .

Life

From 1681 to 1683 he was the ambassador of Leopold I (HRR) to Maximilian II. Emanuel (Bavaria) . In the Munich residence he negotiated a defense agreement with Maximilian II Emanuel (Bavaria) . Maximilian II. Emanuel (Bavaria) had not renewed an alliance with France in 1670. On January 26, 1683, a defense agreement against France and the Ottoman Empire was signed. Maximilian II. Emanuel (Bavaria) pledged to provide 8,000 men in return for annual subsidies of 250,000 guilders in peace and 450,000 guilders in war; in addition, with 15,000 men, he took over cover against a French attack on Austria and Tyrol.

From 1685 to 1688 Lobkowitz was ambassador to Louis XIV. While the Kingdom of France had been an ally of the Ottoman Empire since 1536, the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna took place in 1683 . On September 22, 1686 Lobkowitz let a fireworks burn down at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés to celebrate the conquest of Ofen . On this subject Lobkowitz put a mocking coin cut by Hans Jakob Wolrab (* 1633 in Regensburg; † 1690 in Nuremberg) into circulation. The inscription on the coin reads Leopold der Erden Sonn den Moden Kayser falls from his throne. STAT SOL. LUNA FUGIT (The sun is standing. The moon is fleeing. Book Joshua 10:12, 27. Leopold I (HRR) is equated with the biblical Joshua, while the sun (Ludiwig XIV) has to stand and the moon king ( Abdurrahman Abdi Pascha too Mehmed IV. ) Must flee.). As a result, relations deteriorated and Louis XIV delayed the farewell audience at Versailles Palace .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Kraus, History of Bavaria: from the beginnings to the present , p. 303
  2. ^ Carl Eduard Vehse, History of the Austrian court and nobility and the Austrian diplomacy , sixth part, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1852, p. 112 f.
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Hendrik Ziegler: STAT SOL. LUNA FUGIT. Hans Jacob Wolrab's Joshua Medal on Emperor Leopold I and its reception in France in Ed. Christoph Kampmann: Competing models in dynastic Europe around 1700 . Cologne; Weimar; Vienna 2008, pp. 166–181.
  5. ^ Carl Eduard Vehse, History of the German Courts since the Reformation , Volume 23, p. 281
  6. ↑ Christoph Kampmann, Bourbon, Habsburg, Oranien: competitive models in dynastic Europe , p. 179
predecessor Office successor
Austrian envoy in Munich
1681 to 1683 		Dominic Andreas Kaunitz
Heinrich Franz von Mansfeld Austrian ambassador in Paris
1685–1688 		Philipp Ludwig Wenzel von Sinzendorf
personal data
SURNAME Booger von Lobkowitz, Wenzel Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1654
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplice
DATE OF DEATH 1697