Klemens, 3rd Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid

Klemens August Emmerich, 3rd Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid (8 October 1810 – 24 August 1877) was an Austrian Reichsrat and Member of the Reichstag of the German Empire.

Klemensvon Schönborn-Wiesentheid
Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid
BornKlemens August Emmerich von Schönborn-Wiesentheid
(1810-10-08)8 October 1810
Gaibach
Died24 August 1887(1887-08-24) (aged 76)
SpouseIrene Batthyány de Német-Ujvár
IssueMarie Athenaïs von Schönborn-Wiesentheid
Elma von Schönborn-Wiesentheid
Arthur von Schönborn-Wiesentheid
Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Wiesentheid
Clemens Philipp von Schönborn-Wiesentheid
HouseSchönborn-Wiesentheid
FatherFranz Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid
MotherFernandine von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg

Early life

edit

Schönborn-Wiesentheid was born on 30 January 1846 in Gaibach into the Hochadel (high nobility). He was a younger son of Count Franz Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid and Countess Fernandine von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg. His elder brother was Hugo, 2nd Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid.[1]

His paternal grandparents were Count Erwein von Schönborn-Buchheim and Countess Maria Anna von Stadion zu Thannhausen und Warthausen. His maternal grandparents were Imperial Count Clemens August von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg (sole heir of his maternal great-uncle, Prince-Bishop of Paderborn William Anton of Asseburg, and his paternal uncle, Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim Friedrich Wilhelm of Westphalia) and Countess Maria Antonia Waldbott von Bassenheim.[2][3]

Career

edit
 
Wiesentheid Castle, built for his ancestor, Rudolf Franz Erwein von Schönborn, in 1701

The County of Schönborn-Wiesentheid was in Lower Franconia, the northwestern Region of modern Bavaria, and comprised various isolated districts spanning from the Regnitz River to the Main River east of Würzburg. Schönborn-Wiesentheid, a partition of Schönborn, inherited the other line of Schönborn-Heusenstamm in 1801 before it was mediatised to Bavaria in 1806.[1]

Upon the death of his father in 1840, his elder brother Hugo became the titular Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid. Upon his brother's death in 1865, he became the 3rd Count. As a landowner in Lower and Upper Franconia and a hereditary member of the Reichsrat, Schönborn-Wiesentheid was also a member of the Chamber of Imperial Councillors from 1865 to 1877.[4]

From 1874 to 1877, he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Lower Franconia (Kitzingen) for the Centre Party. In a by-election made necessary by his death on 27 November 1877, his son Friedrich Carl succeeded him in parliament.[5]

Personal life

edit
 
Portrait of his son Arthur, by Philip de László, 1899

He was married to Irene, Countess Batthyány de Német-Ujvár (1811–1891), a daughter of Count Vincenz Batthyány de Német-Ujvár and Josepha Rudnyák de Bátsfa de Magyar Bel, members of a Hungarian Magnate family.[6] Together, they were the parents of:[7]

The Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid died on 24 August 1877 and was succeeded in his hereditary title by his eldest surviving son, Arthur.[5]

Descendants

edit

Through his son Arthur, he was a grandfather of Maria von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (wife of Count Wolfgang von Oberndorff and Stanislaus, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn,[11] Johanna von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (wife of Count and Edler Erwein von und zu Eltz gen. Faust von Stromberg),[11] and Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (who married Donna Ernestina Ruffo, a daughter of Antonio Ruffo, 10th Prince of Scaletta, and Ludovica Borghese).[11]

References

edit
  1. ^ a b c Genealogisches Taschenbuch der freiherrlichen Häuser auf das Jahr . (in German). Perthes. 1868. p. 222. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  2. ^ Best, Heinrich. "BIORAB Kaiserreich – ParlamentarierPortal". www.bioparl.de (in German). Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  3. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: Die Reichstagswahlen von 1867 bis 1903. Eine Statistik der Reichstagswahlen nebst den Programmen der Parteien und einem Verzeichnis der gewählten Abgeordneten. 2. Auflage. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, S. 210.
  4. ^ Verhandlungen der Kammer der Reichsräthe des Königreiches Bayern (in German). 1881. p. 52. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Schönborn-Wiesentheid, Clemens August Graf von". www.bavariathek.bayern. Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  6. ^ Gothaischer Hofkalender zum Nutzen und Vergnügen (in German). Ettinger. 1843. p. 229. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  7. ^ a b of), Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny Ruvigny and Raineval (9th marquis (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe. Harrison & Sons. p. 1550. Retrieved 5 May 2020.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Godsey, William D. (1999). Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War. Purdue University Press. pp. 93, 237–239. ISBN 978-1-55753-140-7. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  9. ^ "The Catalogue | Schönborn-Wiesentheid, Count Arthur von". www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.com. The de Laszlo Archive Trust. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  10. ^ Rust, Hermann (1897). Reichskanzler fürst Choldwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst und seine Brüder, Herzog von Ratibor, Cardinal Hohenloe, und Prinz Constantin Hohenlohe (in German). W. Deiters. p. 112. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  11. ^ a b c d Gothaischer genealogischer Hofkalender nebst diplomatisch-statistichem Jahrbuch (in German). J. Perthes. 1919. p. 207. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  12. ^ d'Hauterive (M.), Borel; Révérend, Albert (1899). Annuaire de la pairie et de la noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe (in French). Bureau de la Revue historique de la noblesse. p. 136. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  13. ^ Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique (in French). Justus Perthes. 1890. p. 185. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
edit