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Wenzel Eusebius, Fürst von Lobkowitz

Austrian statesman
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Jan. 30, 1609
Died:
April 22, 1677, Raudnitz, Bohemia [now in Czech Republic] (aged 68)
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Wenzel Eusebius, Fürst von Lobkowitz (born Jan. 30, 1609—died April 22, 1677, Raudnitz, Bohemia [now in Czech Republic]) was a statesman who served as chief minister of the Aulic Council (Reichshofrat) under the Habsburg emperor Leopold I. During the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) he fought first in Bohemia and Silesia under Albrecht von Wallenstein and later in the Rhineland and Westphalia. As president of the Bohemian Landtag (Diet) during 1643–49, he helped consolidate Habsburg rule there. Appointed vice president (1644) and subsequently president (1652) of the Council of War (Hofkriegsrat), he later became head of the Aulic Council (1669), despite ...(100 of 159 words)

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