Orsini-Rosenberg

House Orsini-Rosenberg

Country	Austria
Ancestral house	House of Graben von Stein
Titles	Reichsfürst und Reichsgraf von Orsini und Rosenberg Burggraf of Klagenfurt Freiherr auf Lerchenau und Grafenstein
Founder	Konrad ab dem Roesenperg
Founding	first named in 1322

Orsini-Rosenberg (also Ursin-Rosenberg) is the name of an old Austrian noble family. Originally sprang out from the family Von Graben (an apparent, or illegitimate branch of the House of Meinhardin) ^[1] from Schloss Alt-Grabenhofen near the city of Graz.^[2]

History

The earliest known member of the Orsini-Rosenberg family, Konrad ab dem Roesenperg, lived around 1322. He was a member of the low nobility who lived at Schloss Alt-Grabenhofen, between Reinerkogel and Rosenberg. During the 17th and 18th century, the succees of that family arose from the steady accumulation of land, and loyalty to the Habsburg Emperor.

On August 2, 1633 Johann Andreas von Rosenberg, Herr von Rosenberg, was elevated to the Reichsfreiherrenstand with the title Freiherr of the Holy Roman Empire, Freiherr of Lerchenau, Herr of Magereckh and Grafenstein and in 1648 to the Austrian Grafenstand. Since 1681 the family Orsini-Rosenberg held the title as Reichsgraf and in 1683 they became members of the Reichstag. At the same year they take the name of the old Italian princely Orsini family; their family name changed to Ursini-Rosenberg or Orsini-Rosenberg. On October 9, 1790 Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg elevated to Reichsfürst von Rosini-Rosenberg.

Family members

Franz Orsini-Rosenberg

thaler 1793

• Johann Andreas von Rosenberg (1600–1667), became first count of Rosenberg
• Vinzenz von Orsini-Rosenberg (1722–1794), Landeshauptmann of Carynthia
• Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg (1726–1795), was made first count of the Holy Roman Empire of Orsini-Rosenberg and later first prince of the Holy Roman Empire of Rosini-Rosenberg, diplomat and politician. Basis for the character Count Orsini-Rosenberg in the fictional work Amadeus.
• Prince Franz Seraph of Rosenberg-Orsini (1761–1832), Austrian General of Cavalry

Note

1. ^ Rudolf Granichstaedten-Czerva (1948): "Brixen - Reichsfürstentum und Hofstaat".
2. ^ Collegium Res Nobilis Austriae: Orsini und Rosenberg

Literature

• Hans Pawlik: Orsini-Rosenberg, Geschichte und Genealogie eines alten Kärntner Adelsgeschlechts. In: Archiv für vaterländische Geschichte und Topographie. book nr. 98. Verlag des Geschichtsvereines für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 2009. p. 1-304.

External links

• Herbert Knittler: Orsini und Rosenberg, Grafen und Fürsten. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 19. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, p. 594–596. (German)
• Herbert Knittler: Rosenberg, Freiherren bzw. Grafen. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 22. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, p. 58 f. (German)