Franz Philipp Joseph, ''

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'' von Schönborn-Buchheim (15 September 1768 – 18 August 1841), was an Imperial and Royal Lieutenant Colonel, Imperial and Royal Chamberlain.

Early life

Franz Philipp Joseph was born on 15 September 1768 in

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in the

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. He was the eldest surviving son of Count Hugo Damian Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid and Countess Maria Anna von Stadion zu Thannhausen und Warthausen (1746–1817).Angelika Burger:
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'' (NDB). Band 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, , S. 396 f. (Digitalisat). Among his siblings were Sophie Theresia von Schönborn (who married Prince Philip Francis of Leyen),

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(who married Countess Fernandine of Westphalia zu Fürstenberg, daughter of

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Clemens August von Westphalen), and Friedrich Karl Joseph von Schönborn (who married Baroness Maria Anna von

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, daughter of Baron Wilhelm von Kerpen). His paternal grandparents were Joseph Franz Bonaventura von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (only surviving son of Count Rudolf Franz Erwein von Schönborn)Domarus, Max: ''Rudolf Franz Erwein v. Schönborn, Graf und Herr zu Wiesentheid, 1677–1754 – Mensch, Künstler, Staatsmann.'', Selbstverlag, Wiesentheid 1954. and Countess Bernhardine von Plettenberg.Franck Lafage, ''Les comtes Schönborn, 1642–1756'', L'Harmattan, Paris, 2008, vol. 1, p. 14.

Career

Schönborn was an

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Lieutenant Colonel, Imperial and Royal Chamberlain, and a

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of the

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. As the eldest surviving son, Franz Philipp inherited the

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estate (a

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n lordship acquired in 1710 from the last Count of Puchheim, the Bishop of Wiener Neustadt) and Weyerburg estates (another Lower Austrian lordship acquired in 1715) and

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in Vienna (which had been acquired in 1740 from the widow of Count Adam

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). All were acquired by his great-grandfather's brother,

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, the

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and

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who served as Vice-Chancellor of the

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. Franz Philipp is considered the founder of the Austrian branch of the

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, which became known as von '' Schönborn-Buchheim''. Since Franz Philipp inherited a number of the older family estates, his father named his younger brother, Franz Erwein, as his successor, who is considered the founder of the Franconian branch, '' Schönborn-Wiesentheid''.

Personal life

On 20 October 1789 at

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, Franz Philipp was married to Countess Maria Sophie von der Leyen (1769–1834), a daughter of Prince Franz Karl von der Leyen und zu Hohengeroldseck and Baroness Maria Anna Helene Josepha Kämmerer von Worms von Dalberg. Together, they were the parents of: * Erwein Damian Hugo von Schönborn-Buchheim (1791–1864), who married Countess Ernestine von Küenburg, a daughter of Count Ernst von Küenburg and Maria Anna Chorinský, in 1824. * Sophie Therese Johanna von Schönborn-Buchheim (1798–1876), who married her

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, Prince Erwein von der Leyen, son of Prince Philip Francis of Leyen, in 1818. * Karl Friedrich Eduard von Schönborn-Buchheim (1803–1854), who married Countess Maria Anna von

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in 1833. Franz Philipp died on 18 August 1841 in

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in the

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. He was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, Erwein, who resigned his rights to his brother, Karl, in 1844.

Descendants

Through his daughter Sophie, he was a grandfather of Philipp Franz Erwein Theodor, 3rd Prince of Leyen-Hohengeroldseck (1819–1882), who married Princess Adelheid Karoline von

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(a direct descendant of

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). Through his son Karl, he was a grandfather of Erwein von Schönborn-Buchheim (1842–1903), who married Franziska von und zu Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg (a direct descendant of Prince

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) in 1864.

References

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Franz Philipp Franz Joseph Philipp (August 24, 1890 – June 2, 1972) was a German Church musician (Germany), church musician and composer. He studied and later taught various instruments including organ, worked as a composer, directed a conservatory, and founde ...