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Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels (13 May 1708 – 15 April 1784) was the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and the Bishop of Münster from 1761 to 1784. He was born in Cologne, son of Count Albert-Eusebius-Franz von Königsegg-Rothenfels and his wife Countess Maria von Manderscheid-Blankenheim. He was the first Elector of Cologne to ...
Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels was the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and the Bishop of Münster from 1761 to 1784.
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Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels (German: Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels) (1708 - 1784) was the Archbishop of Cologne from 1761 until 1784.
Maximilian Frederick was a son of Count Albert Eusebius of Königsegg-Rothenfels, a small County of southern Swabia. He attended the Jesuit schools in Altötting, Cologne, and Strasbourg. He became a member of the Cathedral of Cologne in 1725, and from 1731 became a member of the Cathedral of Strasbourg and the Canon of St. Geron in Cologne.
Maximilian Frederick was unanimously elected the Archbishop of Cologne on 6 April 1761 and Bishop of Münster. Contemporaries describe him as possessing solid principles and morals, pious, a good judge, and kind. As archbishop though these principles were worthless as he completely neglected the duties of his office, which were instead taken up by h...
Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels (13 May 1708 – 15 April 1784) was the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and the Bishop of Münster from 1761 to 1784. He was born in Cologne, son of Count Albert-Eusebius-Franz von Königsegg-Rothenfels and his wife Countess Maria von Manderscheid-Blankenheim.
Maximilian Friedrich Reichsgraf von Königsegg-Rothenfels (1708-1784), seit 1761 Erzbischof und Kurfürst von Köln; halbfigurig, en face, nach rechts gewand mit Orden, Kurfürstenhut, Mitra und Pallium; im Hintergrund Vorhangsdraperie. - Gemälde von Joseph Engelbert Marteleux.
Who was Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels? Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels was the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and the Bishop of Münster from 1761 to 1784. He was born in Cologne.
