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Baron Ferdinand Wilhelm Adolf Franz von Plettenberg, lateron Count von Plettenberg und Wittem, commonly referred to as Ferdinand von Plettenberg, born July 25, 1690, in
Baron Ferdinand Wilhelm Adolf Franz von Plettenberg, lateron Count von Plettenberg und Wittem, commonly referred to as Ferdinand von Plettenberg, born July 25, 1690, in Paderborn
Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...
, died March 18, 1737, in Vienna
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was Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...
of the Electorate of Cologne
The Electorate of Cologne (german: Kurfürstentum Köln), sometimes referred to as Electoral Cologne (german: Kurköln, links=no), was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the 10th to the early 19th century. ...
, Treasurer and Hereditary Marshal of Prince-elector
The prince-electors (german: Kurfürst pl. , cz, Kurfiřt, la, Princeps Elector), or electors for short, were the members of the electoral college that elected the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
From the 13th century onwards, the prince ...
Clemens August of Bavaria and an important supporter of Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (german: Maria Theresia; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position ''suo jure'' (in her own right). ...
in the succession to the throne for the Habsburgian Erblande
The ''Erblande'' ("Hereditary Lands") of the House of Habsburg formed the Alpine heartland of the Habsburg monarchy.Kann, ''Habsburg Empire'', 1–4. They were the hereditary possessions of the Habsburgs within the Holy Roman Empire from before ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Plettenberg, Ferdinand von 1690 births 1737 deaths House of Plettenberg Counts of the Holy Roman Empire Knights of the Golden Fleece of Austria People from Paderborn