Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau explained

Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau
Succession:Plenipotentiary Minister of Austrian Netherlands
Reign:1732 – 1741
Reign-Type:Tenure
Predecessor:Giulio Visconti
Successor:Karl Ferdinand
Birth Date:8 June 1696
Birth Place:Vienna, Austrian Empire
Death Place:Vienna, Austrian Empire
Spouse:Maria Eleanora
Issue:Maria Rosa
Maria Josepha
Issue-Link:
  1. Marriage and issue
Issue-Pipe:Detail
House:Harrach
Father:Aloys Thomas Raimund
Mother:Anna Caecilie
Succession2:

(ad interim)

Reign-Type2:Tenure
Reign2:1741–1744.
Predecessor2:Maria Elisabeth
Successor2:Maria Anna
Succession3:High Chancellor of Bohemia
Reign3:1745–1749
Predecessor3:Philip Kinsky
Successor3:Position Abolished

Count Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau, (Vienna, 8 June 1696  - Vienna, 4 June 1749), was plenipotentiary minister of the Austrian Netherlands (1732–1741) and became Governor-General ad interim in 1741–1744.He was also High Chancellor of Bohemia from 1745 until his death.

Early life

By birth member of the House of Harrach, he was born as the eldest son and child of Count Aloys Thomas Raimund von Harrach und Rohrau (1669–1742) and his second wife Countess Anna Caecilie von Thannhausen (1674–1721).

Marriage and issue

He married Princess Maria Eleonora of Liechtenstein (1703 – 17 July 1757), the youngest daughter of Prince Anton Florian of Liechtenstein and his wife Countess Eleonore Barbara von Thun und Hohenstein, on 5 February 1719. They had 16 children:

Descendants

Ernst Guido's great-great-grandson was Lieutenant Colonel Count Franz von Harrach, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria's Aide-de-camp when he was assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

External links

Literature

Ghislaine De Boom, Les ministres plénipotentaires dans les Pays-Bas autrichiens, principalement Cobenzl, Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique (1932).

Ghislaine De Boom, "L'Archiduchesse Marie-Elisabeth et les Grands Maitres de la cour", Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 5/2-3 (1926), pp. 495–506.