Graf Leopold-Johann Viktorin von Windisch-Graetz

1686 - 1746  (60 years)    Has one ancestor and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Leopold-Johann Viktorin von Windisch-Graetz
  Prefix	Graf
  Birth	17 Sep 1686	Regensburg, Bayern, Deutschland
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Dec 1746	Wien, Österreich
  Person ID	I561414	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	15 Oct 2007

  
  

  Father	Graf Gottlieb I Amadeus von Windisch-Graetz,   b. 13 Mar 1630, Regensburg, Bayern, Deutschland d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F238840	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gräfin Marie Ernestine zu Strassoldo,   b. 16 Jan 1695, Gorizia, Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italia d. 2 Jul 1766, Wien, Österreich (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	16 Aug 1714
  Children	+ 1. Graf Leopold Karl Joseph von Windisch-Graetz,   b. 15 Nov 1718   d. 13 Feb 1746 (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F238839	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Oct 2007

  
  

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  		Birth - 17 Sep 1686 - Regensburg, Bayern, Deutschland Death - 19 Dec 1746 - Wien, Österreich  = Link to Google Earth
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  In 1716 he was appointed to the imperial court council. In the following year he was sent as ambassador extraordinary to the parliament of The Netherlands in The Hague. Among other tasks he was instructed to push through the dismantling of fortresses and strongholds required under the peace treaty of Baden. In 1719 he was also accredited at the court of King George I of Great Britain. In 1722 we see him as the first imperial ambassador at the Congress of Cambrai where with his skill he managed to conclude the so-called Quadruple Alliance. To commemorate this achievement he had a gold coin minted. In 1723 he became a privy councillor, later attended the Congress at Soissons, and received from Emperor Karl VI, by certificate of 14 February 1730, the 'Palatinatus major' that had been promised to his father. He was governor of Lower Austria; in 1735 he became conference minister. By a handwritten notice from Emperor Karl VI dated 28 November 1739, he was made a knight of the Golden Fleece. In 1741 he received, as a magnate of Hungary, the letter of invitation from the Empress Maria Theresia as queen of Hungary, to the famous Coronation Assembly of 1741. In 1743 an imperial court decree of Emperor Franz I dated 5 October appointed him a senior privy councillor with a rank second only to the court chancellor and state chancellor Count Corfitz Ulfeldt. As a highly educated connoisseur of the arts and sciences, Leopold Viktorin was a distinguished representative of his imperial monarch, and as such he led a glittering but very lavish life in several countries of Europe, to which not only his whole monetary resources fell victim, but which also led to very significant indebtedness of his estate. In 1732 he exercised the right of coining money to which he was entitled and stamped his own talers, golden ducats and guilders, which show his image artistically executed. Today they are scarce and very valuable.