Franz Ulrich Count Kinsky von Wchinitz ( Chlumec nad Cidlinou, 1634 – Vienna, 27 February 1699) was a Bohemian-Austrian diplomat and politician.

Biography

Franz Ulrich Kinsky came from the old Bohemian noble family of Kinsky. His younger brother was

Wenceslaus Norbert, Count of Kinsky Wenceslaus, Wenceslas, Wenzeslaus and Wenzslaus (and other similar names) are Latinized forms of the Czech name Václav. The other language versions of the name are german: Wenzel, pl, Wacław, Więcesław, Wieńczysław, es, Wenceslao, russia ...

. In 1683, he became the

High Chancellor of Bohemia The List of Bohemian High Chancellors gives an overview of the Habsburg High Chancellors in Bohemia (german: böhmischen Oberstkanzler; cs, Český Nejvyšší kancléř), between 1526 and 1749. Bohemian High Chancellor In 1526, the Kingdom of ...

and in 1689 a member of the Secret Conference. From 1695 he was the leading statesman at the Viennese court. In the peace negotiations with the Ottoman Empire, he advocated a hard policy aimed at expansion. His parents were the Bohemian court master and chancellor of the Kingdom of Bohemia, Count Johann Octavian von Kinsky (1612–1679) and his wife, Countess Margaretha Magdalena Sforzia von Porzia. He married Anna Franziska von Ursenbeck (died 19 January 1708), daughter of Franz Bernhard von Ursenbeck. The marriage remained childless.

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