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Wilhelm I of Auersperg

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Wilhelm I
Prince of Auersperg
Duke of Gottschee
Prince of Auersperg
Period2 October 1800 – 16 March 1822
PredecessorKarl Josef
SuccessorWilhelm II
Born(1749-08-09)9 August 1749
Graz, Duchy of Styria, Holy Roman Empire
Died16 March 1822(1822-03-16) (aged 72)
Sopron, Kingdom of Hungary
Spouse
Countess Leopoldine of Waldstein-Wartenberg
(died 1822)
IssueWilhelm II of Auersperg
HouseAuersperg
FatherKarl Josef, Prince of Auersperg
MotherCountess Maria Josepha Rosa Trautson

Wilhelm I von Auersperg (9 August 1749 – 16 March 1822), was the 6th Prince of Auersperg and Duke of Gottschee. During his reign, the Principality of Auersperg was mediatised to the Grand Duchy of Baden.

Early life

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Wilhelm was born on 9 August 1749 in Graz in the Duchy of Styria, which was a state in the Holy Roman Empire. He was the son of Karl Josef Anton, 5th Prince of Auersperg (1720–1800) Countess Maria Josepha Trautson von Falkenstein (1724–1792).[1]

His paternal grandparents were Heinrich Joseph Johann of Auersperg, 4th Prince of Auersperg, and, his first wife, Princess Marie Dominika of Liechtenstein (a daughter of Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein and Countess Erdmuthe Maria Theresia of Dietrichstein). After his grandmother's death in 1726, his grandfather married Countess Maria Franziska Trautson of Falkenstein (a daughter of Prince Johann Leopold Trautson von Falkenstein), with whom he had nine more children, including Joseph Franz von Auersperg, Prince-Bishop of Passau.[2] His maternal grandparents were Count Johann Wilhelm Trautson von Falkenstein and Countess Maria Anna Josepha Ungnad (a daughter of Count Franz Anton Ungnad von Weißendorf).[1]

Career

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Upon the death of his father on 2 October 1800, he became the reigning Prince of the Principality of Auersperg and the Duke of Gottschee (which Emperor Leopold II had elevated the territory to the Duchy of Gottschee for his father in 1791). Following the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the Imperial State of Auersperg was mediatised to the Grand Duchy of Baden.[3]

Gottschee, however, became part of the Napoleonic French Empire during the short-lived period of the Illyrian Provinces. Under this arrangement it was initially part of the province of Ljubljana from 1809 to 1811, and then the province of Carniola from 1811 to 1814, and constituted a separate administrative canton.[4] The Gottscheers revolted against French rule during the 1809 Gottscheer Rebellion, killing the commissar of the Novo Mesto district, Von Gasparini. With the collapse of the Illyrian provinces, Gottschee was returned to Habsburg rule within the Kingdom of Illyria.[5]

Personal life

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Portrait of his daughter-in-law, Marie Gabrielle von Lobkowicz, by Franz Schrotzberg, 1843

Auersperg was married to Countess Leopoldine von Waldstein-Wartenberg (1761–1846),[6] a daughter of Johann Vincenz Ferreris, Count of Waldstein, Lord of Wartenberg, and Countess Anna Sophia Marie von Sternberg.[7] Together, they were the parents of:

The Prince died on 16 March 1822 in Sopron in the Kingdom of Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl.[7][14]

References

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  1. ^ a b Deutsche Adelsproben aus dem Deutschen Ordens-Central-Archive: 2 (in German). 1868. p. 393. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Joseph Franz Anton Cardinal von Auersperg". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  3. ^ Fischer, Hubertus; Ruppelt, Georg; Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim (21 July 2015). Eine Reise in die Schweiz: Das Reisetagebuch des hannoverschen Hofgärtners Heinrich Ludolph Wendland aus dem Jahr 1820 (in German). Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München. p. 20. ISBN 978-3-96091-009-1. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  4. ^ Svoljšak, Petra. 1995. "Neodvisna kočevska republika." Kronika 43: 103–107, p. 106.
  5. ^ Matijevič, Meta. 1998. "Napad kmetov na francoske vojake v Novem mestu leta 1809." Kronika 46: 42–46, p. 44.
  6. ^ Gothaischer genealogischer Hofkalender nebst diplomatisch-statistichem Jahrbuch (in German). J. Perthes. 1919. p. 116. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d e Ahnen-Tafeln (in German). Sauerländer. 1846. pp. 3–4. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  8. ^ Watterichsburg, F. C. Watterich von (1845). Handwörterbuch der Landeskunde des Königreichs Böhmen: mit einer Special-Karte von Böhmen (in German). Medau. p. 10. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  9. ^ Gothaischer genealogischer Hofkalender nebst diplomatisch-statistischem Jahrbuch (in German). Perthes. 1863. p. 99. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  10. ^ Gothaischer Hof Kalender zum Nutzen und Vergnügen (in German). Perthes. 1902. p. 108. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  11. ^ Genealogisch-historisch-statistischer Almanach: auf das Jahr ... (in German). Landes-Industrie-Comptoir. 1832. p. 350. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  12. ^ Gothaischer Hof Kalender zum Nutzen und Vergnügen (in German). Perthes. 1942. p. 173. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  13. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (in German). C.A. Starke. 1951. p. 182. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  14. ^ Genealogisches, geographisches, statistisches, und historisches Handbuch für Zeitungsleser und zum Hausgebrauche: oder ausführl. Genealogie aller europäischen u. einiger ausser-europäischen Regenten, u. d. lebenden Familienmitglieder ihrer u. vieler andren in Deutschland, Frankreich etc. begüterten fürstl., gräfl. etc. Häuser : auf d. Jahr . (in German). Sommer. 1830. p. 4. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
Titles of nobility
Preceded by Prince of Auersperg
1800–1822
Succeeded by