Aloys I (Aloys Josef Johannes Nepomuk Melchior; 14 May 1759 – 24 March 1805) was the

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from 18 August 1781 until his death in 1805. He was born in

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, the third son of

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. Aloys was enlisted in the military as a youth but withdrew due to poor health. His great interest was

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and gardening and had many

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s from overseas planted around his manors for both economic and aesthetic reasons. He also decorated Eisgrub Park with ornamental buildings. Aloys I supported

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operations within his lands in

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in order to raise money. This included the construction of an ironworks at

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. Aloys I also expanded the Liechtenstein library through the purchase of complete collections of books. Aloys I had the architect

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design a new palace in Herrengasse,

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. He hired a seasonal theater group and a permanent music group. During his reign, Liechtenstein carried out the last execution in its history when

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was beheaded in

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for theft. He was the 836th

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of the

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in Austria. Aloys married

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Gräfin von Manderscheid-Blankenheim (14 November 1768, in Köln – 11 June 1831, in

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) in

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on 15 November/16 November 1783. The couple were childless. Following Aloys' death in Vienna, Liechtenstein went to his brother Johann I.

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