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Prince of Auersperg
Prince
Johann Ferdinand of Auersperg
(29 September 1655, in
Vienna
? 6 August 1705, in
Zi?bice
, in
Silesia
) was the second
Prince of Auersperg
and
Duke
of
Silesia-Munsterberg
from 1677 until his death.
His father
Johann Weikhard of Auersperg
(1615?1677) was a hereditary
Imperial Prince
and in 1654, Emperor
Ferdinand III
, in his capacity as King of Bohemia, had enfeoffed him with the Duchy of Munsterberg and City of
Frankenstein
.
[1]
In 1678, Johann Ferdinand married Countess Anna Maria of Herberstein (1660?1726). They had a daughter, Maria Theresa of Auersperg (1686?1756), who married Count Georg Siegmund of Auersperg-Kirchberg.
Johann Ferdinand died in 1705. As he had no sons, he was succeeded by his brother
Franz Karl of Auersperg
.
External links
[
edit
]
- ^
Herbert Schmidt:
Der Silbererzbergbau in der Grafschaft Glatz und im Furstentum Munsterberg-Oels. Von den mittelalterlichen Anfangen bis zum Niedergang
, Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 2003,
ISBN
3-8288-8500-4
, p. 18.
