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Aloys Thomas Raimund, Count Harrach
Aloys Thomas Raimund, Count von Harrach zu Rohrau (7 March 1669, Vienna – 7 November, 1742, Vienna) was an Austrians, Austrian politician and diplomat. Early life and ancestry Born into one of the most prestigious Austrian nobility, Austrian noble families, the Harrach, House of Harrach, Aloys Thomas was the fourth son of Ferdinand Bonaventura I. Graf Harrach, Count Ferdinand Bonaventura I von Harrach and his wife, Countess Johanna Theresia Lamberg, Johanna Theresia von Lamberg, daughter of Count Johann Maximilian von Lamberg, Austrian diplomat and courtier. Biography Aloys von Harrach was the envoy of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I, the Austrian Emperor in Dresden in 1694, served in the same function in Spain from 1697 to 1700 and was in Dresden again in 1711, and thereafter in Berlin and Hanover on diplomatic missions. From 1715 to 1742 he acted as 'Landmarschall' in Lower Austria, and from 1728 to 1733 as viceroy of Naples, from where he gathered numerous art p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Gottfried Auerbach 003
Johann, typically a male given name, is the German language, German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin language, Latin form of the Greek language, Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew language, Hebrew name ''Johanan (name), Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" or "Yahweh is Merciful". Its English language equivalent is John (given name), John. It is uncommon as a surname. People People with the name Johann include: Mononym *Johann, Count of Cleves (died 1368), nobleman of the Holy Roman Empire *Johann, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1662–1698), German nobleman *Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1578–1638), German nobleman A–K * Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804), German composer * Johann Adam Reincken (1643–1722), Dutch/German organist * Johann Adam Remele (died 1740), German court painter * Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1649–1697) * Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783), German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian Netherlands
The Austrian Netherlands was the territory of the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire between 1714 and 1797. The period began with the acquisition by the Austrian Habsburg monarchy of the former Spanish Netherlands under the Treaty of Rastatt in 1714. It lasted until Revolutionary France annexation, annexed the territory after the Battle of Sprimont in 1794 and the Peace of Basel in 1795. Austria relinquished its claim on the province in 1797 through the Treaty of Campo Formio. The Netherlands, previously the Burgundian Netherlands, inherited by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs, having revolted against the absolutism and centralism of Philip II of Spain, their common sovereign, launched a war which led in fact, in 1568, to the formation in the north of the Republic of the United Provinces, a new state whose independence would finally be recognized by the King of Spain in 1648 during the Treaty of Münster (October 1648), Treaty of Münster, and in the south of a group o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Wenzel Von Gallas
Johann Wenzel Count of Gallas (23 May 1669 – 25 July 1719), Duke of Lucera, was a Bohemian noble and diplomat and one of the largest landowners in the Holy Roman Empire. Biography Johann Wenzel of Gallas was born on 23 May 1669 in Hořiněves Castle. He was the eldest son of the Imperial general Count Franz Ferdinand of Gallas (1635–1697) and his second wife Johanna Emerentia Countess Gaschin of Rosenberg, and a grandson of Generalfeldmarschall Matthias Gallas, one of the leading Imperial commanders during the Thirty Years' War. Johann Wenzel of Gallas worked in the service of Emperors Joseph I and Charles VI, primarily as a diplomat. He successively became the Imperial ambassador in London (1705–1711), The Hague (1711–1713) and Rome (1713–1718). He carried out his diplomatic activities during the War of the Spanish Succession and was involved in negotiations with the English and Dutch allies and with the French Marquess of Torcy. In 1709, he was awarded with the ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dietrichstein
The House of Dietrichstein was one of the oldest and most prominent Austrian nobility, Austrian noble families originating in the Duchy of Carinthia. The family belonged to the Uradel, high nobility (German: ''Hochadel''). The Mikulov Castle, Nikolsburg branch was elevated to the rank of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1624, while a member of the Schloss Hollenburg, Hollenburg branch was elevated to the same dignity in 1684. The family held two territories with imperial immediacy – the Principality of Dietrichstein, along with castles in Carinthia and Moravia, and the Barony of Tarasp in Switzerland. History Burgruine Dietrichstein, Dietrichstein Castle near Feldkirchen in Kärnten, Feldkirchen in the Duchy of Carinthia was first mentioned in a deed of 1103. It was probably named long before, after a knight Dietrich von Zeltschach, who, in the 9th century, was in the service of the Luitpoldings, Carinthian dukes. In 1166, the Dietrichstein estates were acquired by the Prince- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seneschal
The word ''seneschal'' () can have several different meanings, all of which reflect certain types of supervising or administering in a historic context. Most commonly, a seneschal was a senior position filled by a court appointment within a royal, ducal, or noble household during the Middle Ages and early Modern period – historically a steward or majordomo of a medieval great house. In a medieval royal household, a seneschal was in charge of domestic arrangements and the administration of servants, which, in the medieval period particularly, meant the seneschal might oversee hundreds of laborers, servants and their associated responsibilities, and have a great deal of power in the community, at a time when much of the local economy was often based on the wealth and responsibilities of such a household. A second meaning is more specific, and concerns the late medieval and early modern nation of France, wherein the seneschal () was also a royal officer in charge of justice a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thannhausen, Styria
Thannhausen is a municipality in the district of Weiz in the Austrian state of Styria Styria ( ; ; ; ) is an Austrian Federal states of Austria, state in the southeast of the country. With an area of approximately , Styria is Austria's second largest state, after Lower Austria. It is bordered to the south by Slovenia, and cloc .... It is where Princess Sophie of Hohenberg died in 1990. References {{authority control Cities and towns in Weiz District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thun Und Hohenstein
The House of Thun und Hohenstein, also known as Thun-Hohenstein, belonged to the historical Austrian nobility, Austrian and Bohemian nobility. There is one princely and several count, comital branches of the family. The princely branch of the family lived at Děčín () in Bohemia for more than 200 years. The family maintained an expansive library, including two important albums depicting artistically and technologically innovative armour made for the Habsburg court during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. History A feudalism, feudal family originally from Ton, Trentino, formerly an Italian-speaking part of Tyrol (state), Tyrol (today part of the Trentino province of Italy), the male line traces back to Manfreinus of Tunno in 1187.Almanach de Gotha, ''Thun und Hohenstein''. Justus Perthes, 1944, p. 539 (in French). In 1469, they became hereditary cup-bearers of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trento, Prince-bishopric of Trent and in 1558 of the Roman Catholic Diocese of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lords Of Thannhausen
The Lords of Thannhausen are an old and still existing German noble family with the rank of ''Freiherr'' (Baron). They were members of the German nobility and achieved the status of Imperial Knights. Their ancestral seat is in the Swabian municipality of Tannhausen near Ellwangen. History During the Carolingian dynasty, the family's Frankish ancestors settled the Nördlinger Ries area in northeastern Alamannia. Their residence Tannhausen (not to be confused with '' Thannhausen'' near Günzburg or ''Thannhausen, Styria'') was first mentioned in an 1100 deed. In the Duchy of Swabia, the Thannhausens held large estates and important offices, as documented under the rule of the Hohenstaufen duke Frederick II in 1112 and 1115. Following the writings of Felix Fabri (1438/39–1502), it is also assumed that the medieval minnesinger and poet Tannhäuser (d. after 1265) was an offspring of this family and that he may be identical with ''Lupoldus Danhäuser'' mentioned in a 1246 deed issue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltzan
The House of Maltzahn or Maltzan is the name of an ancient German noble family of the counts and barons von Maltza(h)n which originated from Mecklenburg, Germany, and were first mentioned in a document in 1194. Members occupied many important positions in the Duchy of Mecklenburg and in its successor states, in the Kingdom of Prussia and later in the German Empire. The family owned large properties in Mecklenburg, expropriated by communist East Germany in 1945, where they are now once again based on several estates that they have reacquired. Notable members * Maria von Maltzan (1909–1997), German Resistance member * Christian von Maltzahn, co-founder of Bruno Gmünder Verlag * Geoffrey von Maltzahn (born 1980), American biological engineer * Günther Freiherr von Maltzahn (1910–1953), German World War II flying ace * Heinrich von Maltzan, Baron zu Wartenburg und Penzlin (1826–1874), German traveller * Helmuth von Maltzahn (1840–1923), German finance minister and politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Von Sternberg
Von Sternberg may refer to: * Josef von Sternberg (1894–1969), American film director * Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761–1838), Bohemian theologian and botanist * Ungern-Sternberg The Ungern-Sternberg family or von Ungern-Sternberg is an old and influential Baltic-German nobility, with branches belonging to the German, Finnish, Swedish and Russian nobility. Notable members * Mattias Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg (16 ... family'': ** Roman Ungern von Sternberg (1886–1921), Russian military commander See also * Sternberg {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Née
The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births register or birth certificate may by that fact alone become the person's legal name. The assumption in the Western world is often that the name from birth (or perhaps from baptism or ''brit milah'') will persist to adulthood in the normal course of affairs—either throughout life or until marriage. Some possible changes concern middle names, diminutive forms, changes relating to parental status (due to one's parents' divorce or adoption by different parents), and changes related to gender transition. Matters are very different in some cultures in which a birth name is for childhood only, rather than for life. Maiden and married names The terms née (feminine) and né (masculine; both pronounced ; ), Glossary of French expressions in Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn ( ; ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String quartet". Haydn arose from humble origins, the child of working people in a rural village. He established his career first by serving as a chorister at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, then through an arduous period as a freelance musician. Eventually he found career success, spending much of his working life as Kapellmeister, music director for the wealthy Esterházy family at their palace of Eszterháza in rural Hungary. Though he had his own orchestra there, it isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original". During this period his music circulated widely in publication, eventuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
