Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein
Johann I Joseph | |
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Prince of Liechtenstein | |
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Reign | 1805 - 1814 |
Predecessor | Aloys I |
Successor | Aloys II |
Issue | Aloys II, and fourteen other children |
House | House of Liechtenstein |
Father | Franz Joseph I |
Mother | Countess Josepha Sophie von Furstenberg-Weitra |
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, born Johann Baptist Joseph Adam Johann Nepomuk Aloys Franz de Paula (Vienna, 26 June/27 June, 1760 – Vienna, 20 April, 1836) was the 10th Prince of Liechtenstein between 1805 and 1806 and again from 1814 until 1836. He was the last Liechtenstein prince to rule under the Holy Roman Empire between 1805 and 1806 and as regent of Liechtenstein from 1806 until 1814. He was the fourth son of Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein.
Johann chose a military career at age 22 and entered the army a lieutenant. He was a colonel by the Turkish Wars eight years later. Johann was prominent in the Napoleonic Wars, during which he was promoted to General of the Imperial Army and Field Marshal and given supreme command of the Austrian Army. He commanded Austrian forces at the Battle of Austerlitz. Later on he was also in charge of peace talks with Napoleon concluding the Peace of Pressburg (1805) and the Peace of Schönbrunn (1809). Both of these treaties were very favourable to Napoleon and hard on Austria and Johann was accused of having little diplomatic skill and to escape criticism he resigned from the military in 1810.
As Prince of Liechtenstein, Johann made forward-thinking reforms, but also had an absolutist governing style. In 1818 he granted a constitution, although it was limited in its nature. He expanded agriculture and forestry and radically reorganized his administration, in an attempt to take the requirements of what was then a modern estate into account.
He proved a trendsetter in the area of garden art by planting Biedermeier gardens and park landscapes in an English model.
In 1806 Napoleon incorporated Liechtenstein in the Confederation of the Rhine and made it a sovereign state. At the Vienna Congress the sovereignty of Liechtenstein was approved. Liechtenstein became a member of the German Confederation in 1815. This membership confirmed Liechtenstein’s sovereignty.
He was the 869th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Austria in 1806.
Marriage and issue
On 12 April, 1792 in Vienna, he married Maria Josepha/Josephine Sophie Landgräfin zu Fürstenberg-Weitra (Vienna, 21 June 1776 - Vienna, 23 February 1848), Dame of the Imperial Court and Dame of the Order of the Starry Cross. They had 15 children:
- Princess Maria Leopoldine Josepha Sophia Aemiliana (Vienna, 11 September 1793 - Vienna, 28 July 1808)
- Princess Karoline (Vienna, 2 February 1795 - died in infancy)
- Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1796-1858)
- Princess Maria Sophie Josepha (Vienna, 5 September 1798 - Vienna, 27 June 1869), married in Vienna on 4 August 1817 Vincenz Graf Esterházy von Galántha (Pressburg, 25 October 1787 - Eisgrub, 19 October 1835),[1] without issue
- Princess Maria Josepha (Vienna, 11 January 1800 - Vienna, 14 June 1884), unmarried and without issue
- Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein (1802-1887), married Countess Julia Potocka and had issue. His great-grandson would eventually become Prince Franz Joseph II.
- Prince Karl Johann of Liechtenstein (1803-1871). Married Rosalie d'Hemricourt Gräfin von Grünne and had issue.
- Princess Klothilda Leopoldina Josepha (Vienna, 19 August 1804 - Vienna, 27 January 1807)
- Princess Henriette (Vienna, 1 April 1806 - Ischl, 15 June 1886), married in Vienna on 1 October 1825 Joseph Graf Hunyady von Kethély (Vienna, 13 January 1801 - Vienna, 9 March 1869), and had issue
- Prince Friedrich Adalbert (Vienna, 22 September 1807 - Vienna, 1 May 1885), 1,018th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Austria, married at Schloss Rosegg on 15 September 1848 Johanna Sophie Christiane Löwe (Oldenburg, 24 May 1815 - Buda, 28 November 1866), without issue
- Prince Eduard Franz of Liechtenstein (1809-1864). Married Countess Honoria Choloniowa-Choloniewska and had issue.
- Prince August Ludwig Ignaz (Vienna, 22 April 1810 - Vienna, 27 May 1824)
- Princess Ida Leopoldine Sophia/e Maria/e Josepha/Josephine Franziska (Eisgrub, Moravia, 12 September 1811 - Vienna, 27 June 1884), Dame of the Imperial Court, Dame of the Order of the Starry Cross, married in Vienna on 30 July 1832 Karl/Carl 4te Fürst Paar Freiherr auf Hartberg und Krottenstein (Brieg, Silesia, 6 January 1806 - Vienna, 17 January 1881), Hereditary Grand-Master of the Posts of the Imperial Court,[2] and had issue
- Prince Rudolf Maria Franz Placidus (Vienna, 5 October 1816 - Vicenza, 19 June 1848), unmarried and without issue
References
- ^ http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/esterhazy.html Princely and Countly House of Esterházy de Galántha
- ^ http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/paar.html Princely House of Paar
- "Costados", Gonçalo de Mesquita da Silveira de Vasconcelos e Sousa, Livraria Esquina, 1.ª Edição, Porto, 1997, N.º 106