Ursula Katharina Lubomirska

Ursula Katharina of Altenbockum ( born November 25, 1680 in Warsaw ();? † May 4, 1743 in Dresden) was a mistress of the Polish king and Saxon Elector August the Strong, whose initiative it was also imposed an imperial princess as Princess of Teschen.

Biography

Catherine of Altenbockum was the younger daughter of the Lithuanian Steward Johann Heinrich von Altenbockum and his wife Constantia Tekla Branicka, who had immigrated from Westphalia to Poland.

When she reached the then marriageable respected age, she was married to the Polish Jerzy Dominik Lubomirski Kronoberkämmerer prince. The Lubomirski be counted then the most influential families of the election Kingdom. So they talked family ties to Cardinal Primate Michal Radziejowski, the Archbishop of Gniezno, which after the death of the Polish king Jan III. Sobieski, was until the election of a new king of the so-called King representative. The Pope difference these " little happy marriage ," which in those days was a highly unusual event in Catholic Poland. Even before the turn of the century Augustus II, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, attention to Katharina and is said to have taken their relationship to the Cardinal Primate advantage.

In 1700 they finally became the official mistress of the king, and thus the successor to the Countess Maximiliane Hiserle of Chodau lodged as Countess Esterle in history. August II took Catherine with after the Electorate of Saxony and introduced it at the Dresden court and in the local society. This was impressed by the beautiful, charming and witty princess. On August 21, 1704 she gave birth to August a son, Johann Georg Chevalier de Saxe, named after the father of the elector.

Only five days after the birth, on 26 August 1704 Ursula Katharina was raised by Emperor Leopold I as an imperial princess of Teschen in the personal rank of prince.

But during the year ebbed the favor of the king. Already in 1705 Ursula Katharina von Teschen was supplanted by the largest affair of August the Strong: Anna Constantia von Hoym, later Countess Cosel, now took their place. Humiliated by the king and ostracized from the Dresden court, the princess first moved back to their country seat to Hoyerswerda, the above is her August the Strong 1704 as a loan for 250,000 borrowed Reichstaler and for which they had later received the entire rights. Later she went to her residence to Silesian Breslau.

Years later, after Ursula Katharina von Teschen had reconciled with the king and her rival had been banished, they returned to Dresden. She had conquered her pride and took now at the court of Augustus a position of respect, not least because their participation in the overthrow of the Grand Chancellor Wolf Dietrich was at the time attributed by Beichlingen.

Here campaigned ten years younger Prince Friedrich Ludwig von Württemberg- Winnental for the affection of the still beautiful princess. As bride gift he bought in 1721, the Baroque castle Neschwitz and had it rebuilt. Finally, she gave in to his promotion. They married on October 22, 1722 secretly and moved the following year in the Baroque castle Neschwitz, the hunting residence became their summer and. Twelve years after the marriage, on September 19, 1734 Friedrich Ludwig fell in the battle of Guastalla. According to the marriage agreement and against the opposition of the House of Württemberg assumed name Catherine and her husband's coat of arms, which they further led to her death.

The rule Hoyerswerda she joined in 1737 for an annual pension of annually 18,000 rix-dollars for themselves and their death at 6,000 rix-dollars for their son to the electoral chamber and thus to Augustus III. , The only legitimate son of Augustus the Strong, from. In the same year she sold her possessions in Neschwitz to Alexander Joseph Graf Sulkowski, the Saxon- Polish foreign minister of the king.

From Hofgeschehen the Empire Princess Ursula Katharina von Teschen had completely withdrawn after the death of the Elector August II 1733. On 4 May 1743, died at the age of 62 years in Dresden. Their remains were interred in the Jesuit church in the Bohemian Leitmeritz.