Maximilian Karl, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

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Maximilian Karl
Count and then Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
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Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Period1672–1718
Born(1656-07-14)14 July 1656
Rochefort
Died26 December 1718(1718-12-26) (aged 62)
Milan
Spouse Countess Maria Polyxena Khuen of Lichtenberg and Belasi
Issue Eleonore, Landgravine of Hesse-Rotenburg
Dominic Marquard, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
House House of Löwenstein-Wertheim
Father Ferdinand Karl, Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Mother Countess Anna Maria of Fürstenberg

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.

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Early life

Maximilian Karl Albert was the fourth child and the first son of Ferdinand Karl, Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1616-1672) and his wife, Landgravine Anna Maria of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1634-1705), daughter of Landgrave Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg and Countess Anna Maria of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1605–1652). He was followed by ten siblings.

Biography

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 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. 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, which Prince Eugene of Savoy had conquered for the House of Habsburg. [1]

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 Countess Maria Polyxena Khuen von Belasi (1658-1712), daughter of Count Mathias Khuen von Belasi (d. 1678) and his wife, Countess Anna Susanna Apollonia von Meggau (1617-1689). The marriage produced ten children: [2]

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References

Notes

  1. Martina Heine: Löwensteiner im Reichsfürstenstand. In: Wertheimer Zeitung vom 5. Januar 2012
  2. Karl-Heinz Zuber (1987), "Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort, Maximilian Karl Fürst zu", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 15, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 98–99; ( full text online )
Maximilian Karl, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
Cadet branch of the House of Löwenstein-Rochefort
Born: 14 July 1756 Died: 26 December 1718
German nobility
Preceded by Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
1672–1718
Succeeded byas Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort