Leopoldine von Sternberg
Princess of Liechtenstein from 1772 to 1781
Leopoldine von Sternberg (Maria Leopoldine Walburga Eva; 11 December 1733, Vienna – 1 March 1809, Valtice ) was a princess consort of Liechtenstein by marriage to Prince Franz Joseph I . She is noted to have belonged to the discussion circle of Eleonore of Liechtenstein , who acted as political advisers to Emperor Joseph II .
Life
Leopoldine was born as the second child and the eldest daughter of Count Franz Philipp of Sternberg (1708-1786) and his wife, Countess Leopoldine of Starhemberg (1712-1800), elder sister of Georg Adam, Prince of Starhemberg . Marie Leopoldine married Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein , on 6 July 1750 in Valtice or Feldsberg .[ 1]
After the death of her spouse in 1781, she lived permanently in Vienna with her youngest daughter, Maria Josepha Hermenegilde.
She belonged to the salon or discussion circle of five princesses, headed by Eleonore of Liechtenstein , who acted as the political advisers of Emperor Joseph II , and who met him once a week (four times a week after 1780) to discuss state affairs. This circle consisted of Princess Eleonore of Liechtenstein (1745-1812), Princess Maria Josepha von Clary und Aldringen (1728-1801), Princess Maria Sidonia Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (1729-1815), Princess Leopoldine von Liechtenstein (1733-1809), Count Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725-1801) who was Austrian field marshal and the chief treasury Prince Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg (1723-1796).
Issue
The couple had eight children:
Joseph Franz de Paula Emanuel Philipp Isaias (Vienna , 6 July 1752 – Vienna , 17 February 1754)
Leopoldina Maria Anna Francisca de Paula Adelgunda (Vienna , 30 January 1754 – Frankfurt , 16 October 1823), married in Felsberg on 1 September 1771 Karl Emanuel, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg , and had issue (including Victor Amadeus, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg )
Maria Antonia Aloysia Walburga Mechthildis (Vienna , 14 March 1756 – Vienna , 1 December 1821), a nun
Franz de Paula Joseph (Vienna , 19 May 1758 – Vienna , 15 August 1760)
Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1759–1805)Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein (1760–1836)Philipp Joseph Aloys Martinianus (Vienna , 2 July 1762 – Vienna , 18 May 1802), unmarried and without issue
Maria Josepha Hermenegilde (Vienna , 13 April 1768 – Hütteldorf , 8 August 1845), married in Vienna on 15 September 1783 Nikolaus, 7th Prince Esterházy von Galántha (Vienna , 12 December 1765 – Como , 24 November 1833), and had issue.[ 2]
Ancestry
Ancestors of Leopoldine von Sternberg 16. Count Jan Rudolf of Sternberg 8. Count Oldřich Adolf of Sternberg 17. Baroness Helena Eustachie Křinecká of Ronova 4. Count Franz Damian of Sternberg 18. Count Jachym Oldřich of Chlum and Košumberk 9. Countess Anna Lucie of Chlum and Košumberk 19. Countess Franziske of Meggau-Worporzan 2. Count Franz Philipp of Sternberg 20. Count Johann Maximilian of Trauttmansdorff-Gleichenberg 10. Count Johann Friedrich of Trauttmansdorff 21. Countess Mária Zsofia Pálffy of Erdöd 5. Countess Maria Josepha of Trauttmansdorff 22. Count Vaclav Jiří Holický of Sternberg 11. Countess Marie Eleonora Holická of Sternberg 23. Countess Vorsila Polyxena Borita of Martinic 1. Countess Maria Leopoldine of Sternberg 24. Count Conrad Balthasar of Starhemberg 12. Count Franz Ottokar of Starhemberg 25. Countess Caterina Francesca Cavriani 6. Count Conrad Sigismund of Starhemberg 26. Count Johann Otto of Rindsmaul 13. Countess Cecilia Clara of Rindsmaul 27. Countess Marie Eleonore of Dietrichstein 3. Countess Maria Leopoldine of Starhemberg 28. Ferdinand Karl, Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort 14. Maximilian Karl, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort 29. Countess Anna Maria of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg 7. Princess Maria Leopoldine of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort 30. Mathias Khuen von Belasi, Lichtenberg and Gandegg 15. Countess Polyxena Khuen von Belasi of Lichtenberg and Gandegg 31. Countess Anna Susanna of Meggau in Kreutzen
References
Adam Wolf: Fürstin Eleonore Liechtenstein, 1745–1812, nach Briefen und Memoiren ihrer Zeit. Wien 1875
Jacob von Falke: Geschichte des fürstlichen Hauses Liechtenstein. 3. Band, Wien 1882.
Raoul Auernheimer: Metternich. Staatsmann und Kavalier. München 1977, S. 37 f.
Günther Ebersold: August Reichsfürst von Bretzenheim. Norderstedt 2004, S. 242 ff.
Derek Beales: Joseph II. 2 Bände, Cambridge University Press 1987/2009, vor allem Band 1, S. 324–337, Abbildung 17a, Band 2, S. 20–25.
Rebecca Gates-Coon: The Charmed Circle. Joseph II and the "Five Princesses," 1765–1790. Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Indiana 2015, unter anderem S. 2 (Abbildung), 120–127, 343 f. (heutiger Standort der archivalischen Quellen).
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