Johann Wenzel Wratislaw von Mitrowitz
Count Johann Wenzel Wratislaw of Mitrovice (
High Chancellor of Bohemia. He was the member of the Wratislaw of Mitrovice
family.
Biography
Count Johann Wenzel Wratislaw of Mitrovice was born into the noble Bohemian family of
Marlborough to join him in South Germany and thereafter helping to coordinate their activities. After the fall of Bavaria however it was not Wratislaw who was appointed governor, although that was what Eugene proposed, but Count Löwenstein, a court favourite in Vienna
.
When Emperor
Karl Theodor von Salm
, who saw him as a rival and took pains to put obstacles in his path. Subsequently Wratislaw advised Eugene against accepting the high command on the Spanish front, on the basis that although it was possible to rule Austria and Italy jointly, it was impossible to rule Austria and Spain jointly, and that therefore any military action there, even if successful, made little sense.
After Joseph's death on 17 April 1711, Wratislaw, as a minister, became a member of the council advising his widow as Regent,
dropsy. His remains were interred for a year in Vienna's Totenkapelle before being moved to the Church of St. James the Great in Staré Město, Prague in 1714, following the completion of an elaborate sarcophagus by the famous Baroque architect Fischer von Erlach.[1][2][3]
Sources
- Herre, Franz, nd: Eugen von Savoyen Europas heimlicher Herrscher (in German)
- ^ "ANNO, Wiener Zeitung, 1712-12-21, Seite 4".
- ^ Ruth, Frantisek (1903). "Kronika kralovske Prahy o obci sousednich".
- ^ "Časopis Společnosti přátel starožitností českých v Praze". 1910.
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