Schallenberg family
The House of Schallenberg is the name of an old and important
Austro-Hungarian noble family
, whose members occupied may important political positions and were in diplomatic service.
History
The family hails from
Habsburg Hereditary Lands. The family received the Hungarian Indigenat and were recognized as nobles of the Kingdom of Hungary by the Diet of Hungary in 1688. From 1720 to 1803 Rosenau castle was owned by the family.[1][2][3][4][5]
Notable members
- Christoph von Schallenberg (1561–1597), naval commander and humanist poet
- Leopold Christoph, Count of Schallenberg (1712–1800), Governor of Lower Austria
- Herbert, Count of Schallenberg (1901–1974), diplomat and industrialist
- Wolfgang Schallenberg (1930–2023), diplomat
- Alexander Schallenberg (b. 1969), Chancellor of Austria, foreign minister of Austria
References
- ^ Jahrbuch der Vereinigung katholischer Edelleute in Österreich. Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia A.G., Innsbruck/Wien/München 1931.
- ^ Johann Christian von Hellbach: Adels-Lexikon: Oder Handbuch über die historischen, genealogischen… Band 2. Ilmenau 1826 (Digital link).
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: Neues allgemeines deutsches Adels-Lexicon. Vol. 8. Leipzig 1868 (Digital link)
- ^ Harald Tersch: Österreichische Selbstzeugnisse des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit (1400–1650). Böhlau, Wien/Köln/Weimar 1998, pp. 725–737
- ^ "Das Haus SCHALLENBERG". University of Vienna. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
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