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Ferdinand-Gobert Count of Aspremont-Lynden 1645-1708

Lynden was born in the noble family Aspremont-Lynden as the son of Count Ferdinand of Aspremont-Lynden (1611–1665) and his wife, Landgravine Elisabeth zu Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1621–1662). He grew up at the Aspremont-Lynden Castle, in the county of Rekem (Reckheim), a small County in present-day Belgium, belonging to the Holy Roman Empire. Lynden became an officer in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and its Habsburg emperor in Vienna.

Artist/Engraver
Size 20 x 15 cms
Price £18.00

Ref:3624

Concino Concini, 1st Marquis d’Ancre 1569-1617

Concino Concini, 1st Marquis d’Ancre was an Italian politician, best known for being a minister of Louis XIII of France, as the favourite of Louis’s mother, Marie de Medici, Queen of France. In 1617, he was killed at the behest of the King.

Artist/Engraver B. Moncornet.
Size 16 x 12 cms
Price 18.00

Ref:3623

Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria & Archduke Franz Salvator

Archduchess Marie Valerie Mathilde Amalie of Austria 1868 -1924 was the youngest child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. She was usually called Valerie.
On 31 July 1890, she married Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria 1866-1939 the marriage caused a rift between her and her siblings as their marriages had to be dynastic, while Marie Valerie’s was, as Empress Elisabeth allowed, for love and desire.

Artist/Engraver
Size 13 x 12 cms
Price £18.00

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Johann Weikhard von Valvasor 1641-1693

Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor or Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor(Slovene: Janez Vajkard Valvasor, pronounced [ˈʋáːlʋazɔɾ]) or simply Valvasor was a natural historian and polymath from Carniola, present-day Slovenia, and a fellow of the Royal Society in London. He is known as a pioneer in the study of karst topography. Together with his other writings, until the late 19th century his best-known work—the 1689 Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, published in 15 books in four volumes—was the main source for older Slovenian history, making him one of the precursors of modern Slovenian historiography.

Artist/Engraver Matthias Greischer1659-1712
Size 29 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

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Leonhard IV von Harrach 1514-1590

Son of Leonhard III and his wife Barbara von Gleinig, he was born in 1514. He became an imperial councilor in the government of Lower Austria in 1545, and was then admitted to the imperial council of Emperor Maximilian II of the Holy Roman Empire, who created him baron with diploma dated 4 January 1552, then tying the title to the fiefdom of Rohrau on 12 April 1566; with a diploma dated 29 May 1559 he received for himself and his male heirs the hereditary position of stable master for Lower Austria. Leonhard IV was a knight of the Golden Fleece and was the one who founded the fortunes of the von Harrach family.
He had the family tomb built in the Augustinian church in Vienna where he was also buried after his death in 1590.

Artist/Engraver
Size 26 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:3620

Karl Markgraf von Burgau 1560–1618

Charles, Margrave of Burgau, also known as Charles of Austria, was the son of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria and his first morganatic marriage to Philippine Welser. He was the brother of Andrew of Austria.

Artist/Engraver Custos
Size 27x 19 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:3619

Matthias Gottfried von Wunschwitz 1635-1695

Matthias Gottfried (born in Prague 1632, died in Ronsberg 1695) significantly increased the property and reputation of his family. In 1661 he was admitted to the Bohemian knighthood and on August 29, 1675 he was raised to the Bohemian lordship. He was also in the civil service, was only 23 years old, an advocate, became a corporate secretary, in 1660 imperial procurator and later vice-chamberlain in Moravia, then imperial councilor in Bohemia, chairman of the chamber and feudal court, captain of the Pilsen district; He was also consulted on other important matters, repeatedly deployed on diplomatic missions, promoted to Imperial Councilor shortly before his death and appointed ambassador to Poland. With his wife Anna Feliciana Pachta von Rajov (born in Prague on March 30 [272] 1648, died there in 1718) he acquired the rule of Ronsberg with Bezvěrov (Wasserau) and Bernstein; He was also the lien holder of the Electoral Palatinate town and lordship of Playstein, the Vilimov estate, which he purchased from Max Franz Borynč von Lhota, and the Wällischbirken estate with Zeliboric, Tvrzic, Chocholata Lhota and Bucíkov, which he had purchased from Karl Leopold Count of Millesimo .

Artist/Engraver: Johann Christoph Sartorius
Size 25 x 15 cms
Price £35.00

Ref:3618

Queen Mary I of England 1516-1558

Mary I , also known as Mary Tudor, and as “Bloody Mary” by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, King Henry VIII. Her attempt to restore to the Church the property confiscated in the previous two reigns was largely thwarted by Parliament, but during her five-year reign, Mary had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian persecutions.

Artist/Engraver Francis Delaram, published by Compton Holland 19th cent
Size 30 x 23 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:3616

Leopold Joseph von Daun 1705-1766

Leopold Joseph Maria was born at Vienna, the son of Count Wirich Philipp von Daun (1669–1741) and his wife, Countess Maria Barbara von Herberstein (1675–1735). The Daun noble family originated from the Rhineland and derived its name from the ancestral seat at Daun south of the High Eifel range. He was first cousin of Countess Eleonora Ernestina von Daun, who later married the Marquis of Pombal, the noted Portuguese statesman.

Artist/Engraver
Size 10 x 6 cms
Price £14.00

Ref: 3615

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