Maximilian Karl, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (14 July 1656 – 26 December 1718) was an Austrian military officer and the first Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort.
Life
Maximilian Karl Albert was the fourth child and the first son of
Ferdinand Karl, Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "co ...
(1616 - 1672) and his wife Countess Anna Maria of Fürstenberg (1634 - 1705); he was followed by ten siblings.
Maximilian Karl, entered the emperor's service at an early age, was an acting imperial advisor since 1684 and was named privy councilor of the empire in 1699. After
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 ...
Max Emanuel of Bavaria was forced into exile in 1704, Maximilian Karl became the imperial administrator of Bavaria and, in his new rank as a prince, assumed the honorable position of a principle commissioner, the permanent representative of the emperor in the imperial diet from 1712 on.
On 3 April 1711 he was elevated to the status of a prince by
Emperor Joseph I
, father = Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
, mother = Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg
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, birth_place = Vienna, Austria
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, death_place = Vienna, Austria
, burial_place = Imperial Crypt, Vienna
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. He was granted principality for all his legitimate descendants by the emperor's brother and successor,
Emperor Karl VI, on 8 January 1712.
His last office in the imperial service, which he held from 1717 until his death was the governorship of the
Duchy of Milan
The Duchy of Milan ( it, Ducato di Milano; lmo, Ducaa de Milan) was a state in northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti family, which had been ruling the city sin ...
, which
Prince Eugene of Savoy
Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy–Carignano, (18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736) better known as Prince Eugene, was a Generalfeldmarschall, field marshal in the army of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty during the 17th a ...
had conquered for the
House of Habsburg
The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...
.
Maximilian Karl died and was buried in Milan; his heart was transferred and buried in the crypt of the collegiate church of Wertheim.
Marriage and issue
On 26 August 1678, Maximilian Karl Albert married the Tyrolean Countess Maria Polyxena Khuen of Lichtenberg and Belasi. The marriage produced ten children:
* Princess Maria Theresia Franziska zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1679 - 1718)
* Wilhelm Karl Magnus Anton, Erbgraf zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (born and died in 1680)
* Maximilian Karl Anton, Erbgraf zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1681 - 1710)
* Count Wolfgang Philipp Eberhard Joseph zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (born and died in 1683)
* Count Felix Albert zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1684 - 1685)
*
Princess Eleonore Maria Anna zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1686 - 1753) married in Frankfurt on 9 November 1704
Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg
Ernst Leopold of Hesse-Rotenburg (15 June 1684 – 29 November 1749) was Landgrave of Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg between 1725 and 1749.
Born in Langenschwalbach, he was a son of landgrave William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and Countess Ma ...
and had issue
* Count Franz Joseph zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1687 - 1688)
* Princess Maria Leopoldine Theresia Renata Dorothea zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1689 - 1763) married in Alt-Otting on 1 September 1710 Conrad Sigismund, Count von Starhemberg and had issue
*
Dominik Marquard Sebastian Christian Ernst, 2.Fürst zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1690 - 1735) married Landgravine Christine of Hesse-Wanfried (1688 - 1728) a daughter of
Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried
Charles of Hesse-Wanfried (born: 19 July 1649 at Rheinfels Castle; died: 3 March 1711 in Schwalbach), was a Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried. He was the second son of Landgrave Ernest of Hesse-Rheinfels and Maria Eleonore of Solms-Lich.
Life
After ...
and had issue
* Count Franz Carl zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1693 - 1697)
References
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Notes
External links
Webseite des Hauses Löwenstein
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1656 births
1718 deaths
People from Rochefort, Belgium
House of Löwenstein-Wertheim
Austrian military personnel
Governors of the Duchy of Milan