Clary-Aldringen

The Bohemian princely family Clary and Aldringens comes from northern Italy and had received a Bohemian privilege in the 14th century.

History

Franz Clary, originally Francesco de Clario Riva of Riva del Garda, acquired 1622/23 large estates in Bohemia, as the rule Dobritschan at Libeschitz. For the confiscated from rebellious Bohemian Protestants goods he paid Emperor Ferdinand II 34,700 Credits inferior money that was worth in reality only 4,130 dollars. Nevertheless, he was raised in 1627 in the Bohemian baron.

His son Jerome was married to Anna Maria Aldringens, sister of the Imperial Field Marshal Johann von Aldringens, which in 1634, after the death of Wallenstein and his followers from the collection of Count Kinsky rule Teplitz had fallen. Johann Graf von Aldringens but fell shortly afterwards during the Battle of Landshut 1634th After inheritance disputes with other Aldringens - siblings of the acquisition of the rule Teplitz was finally confirmed in 1666, brought the family to the rank of count and made ​​a name and coat of arms union.

The family had also taken possession of in the Tyrol and in 1693 the country team of Tirol. In 1767 Franz Wenzel Count of Clary and Aldringens, imperial Privy Council and treasurer, raised to the imperial princes. The members of the family were hereditary members of the manor house of the Austrian Imperial Council. The respective princes certain primogeniture, all members of the family to use the name Count or Countess of Clary and Aldringens.

In 1899, the long-time governor of Styria Manfred von Clary and Aldringens few weeks was long Prime Minister of Cisleithania, the Austrian half of Austria -Hungary.

The seventh Prince Alfons of Clary and Aldringens (* 1887, † 1978), married in 1916 in Eltville Lidwine called to Eltz born Countess and noble daughter of Eltz called fist of Stromberg, daughter of Jacob Faust by Stromberg, Fideikommissherrn to Burg Eltz in the Eifel, Heir to Eltville in the Rheingau and Vukovar in Slavonia, imperial and royal chamberlain, and Princess Marie Lobkowicz from the house of Melnik. Princess Lidwine was born in 1894 in Eltville, received the dignity of a star cross religious lady and died in 1984 as before her husband in Venice. Prince Alfonso was a doctor of law, imperial and royal chamberlain, honor and Devotionsritter of the sovereign Order of Malta and Mr. Teplitz on with pearl barley and Hohenleipa in Bohemia, which goods were dispossessed him in 1945 after the end of World War II.

The couple had a daughter and three sons Elisalex, the first of which, Jerome, 1941 Sokolowka in Ukraine, the youngest, Charles George, 1944 fell in Koprivnica in Croatia. The second son, Marcus, sat the older line of the princely house Clary and Aldringens continued to the present day.

Since 1945, the members of the family live in Italy and Germany. A branch of the family since the end of the 19th century lived in Austria.

Head of the family since March 2007, Jerome Prince of Clary and Aldringens ( b. 1944 ), grandson of Prince Alfons pair and Lidwine.

Personalities

  • John of Aldringens (1588-1634), the imperial field marshal
  • Franz Wenzel Count of Clary and Aldringens (1706-1781), Imperial Privy Council and Treasurer, First Prince of the Empire
  • Manfred von Clary and Aldringens (1852-1928), longtime governor of Styria and briefly Prime Minister of Austria
  • Karl Ignaz von Clary and Aldringens (1729-1791), President of the kk Crown Domain Temes Banat and chairman of the Banat Mountains Directorate

Coat of arms

Imperial Roman- German imperial princes Vienna February 2, 1767: square with a red bar and with a golden heart sign occupied, is a crowned black double-headed eagle with Austrian shield, on a black F and above the shield a Erzherzogshut; Field 1: blue three ( 2:1) gold stars, field 2: two in gold inserted through a crown of leaves black double hook ( both fields: Aldringens ), Field 3: Gold three (1:2) blue cubes, Section 4: in a blue diagonally - left asked silver Tower ( both fields: Clary ); including three helmets with blue - silver covers: 1 a silver -clad arm with two crossed how fields 3 and 1 designated flags in hand, 2 of the double-headed eagle of the heart shield, 3 a silver -clad arm with the image of field 2 in hand; Princely hat and coat.

Coat of arms of the Counts of Clary and Aldringens

Coat of arms of the Counts Clary to Sparbersbach

Building

  • Palais Mollard - Clary, Vienna
  • Castle Teplice, Northern Bohemia
House of Kinsky History of Styria Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen Eltz Castle Archducal hat Palais Mollard-Clary
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