
Fürstenberg-Taikowitz was a cadet branch of the
princely House of Fürstenberg
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, originally from
Swabia
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The name is ultimately derived from the medieval Duchy of ...
in present-day
Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It emerged in 1759 as a partition of the Austrian
Fürstenberg-Weitra line.
The
landgraves resided at
Taikowitz Castle in southern
Moravia, in the present-day
Czech Republic.
Langraves of Fürstenberg-Taikowitz in Moravia
* Friedrich Joseph Maximilian Augustus (1759-1814)
** Joseph Friedrich Franz de Paula Vincenz (1777-1840)
** Friedrich Michael Johann Joseph (1793-1866), last landgrave of this line and guardian of
Bertha von Suttner
Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner (; ; 9 June 184321 June 1914) was an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel ...
Properties
File:Tavíkovice_castle_in_Tavíkovice,_Znojmo_District.jpg, Castle Taikowitz
Fürstenberg (princely family)
Counties of the Holy Roman Empire
Moravian nobility
Czech people of Austrian descent
References
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