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Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg (18 February 1658 – 12 June 1740) was Prince-Bishop of Constance from 1704 to 1740 and Prince-Bishop of Augsburg from 1737 to 1740.
Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg was born in Lautlingen on 18 February 1658 as the fourth son of Wolfgang Friedrich Schenk von
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Early life
Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg was born in Lautlingen on 18 February 1658 as the fourth son of Wolfgang Friedrich Schenk von Stauffenberg
The Schenk von Stauffenberg family is a Roman Catholic ''Uradel'' German noble family from Swabia, Germany. The family's best-known recent member was Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg – the key figure in 20 July plot in 1944 to a ...
(1612-1676) and his wife, Anna Barbara von Wernau (1632-1681).
Biography
He was made acanon
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of Konstanz Cathedral
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History
The first mention of a ...
in 1667. He studied in Dillingen an der Donau
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until 1675. His father died in 1676 and his mother at 1681, after which time his uncles Hans Georg von Wernau and Franz Wilhelm von Stain acted as his guardians. He became a canon of Augsburg Cathedral
The Cathedral of Augsburg (German: ''Dom Mariä Heimsuchung'') is a Catholic cathedral in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, founded in the 11th century in Romanesque style, but with 14th-century Gothic additions. Together with the Basilica of St. Ul ...
in 1682.
In 1694, he became coadjutor bishop
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of Constance
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. Upon the death of Marquard Rudolf von Rodt, Bishop of Constance, on 10 June 1704, he succeeded as Bishop of Constance.Profile on catholic-hierarchy.org/ref> He was
ordained
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as a priest
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on 11 November 1704. On 26 January 1705 Pope Clement XI
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confirmed his appointment and he was subsequently consecrated
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as a bishop
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by Vincenzo Bichi, Bishop of Frascati
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, on 26 April 1705.
Following a bout of mental illness
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on the part of Alexander Sigismund von der Pfalz-Neuburg, Prince-Bishop of Augsburg, on 11 June 1714, the cathedral chapter
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of Augsburg Cathedral
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elected Stauffenberg coadjutor bishop
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of Augsburg, and the appointment was confirmed by Pope Clement XI
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on 24 September 1714. He succeeded as Prince-Bishop of Augsburg upon the death of Alexander Sigismund von der Pfalz-Neuburg on 24 January 1737.
He died in Meßkirch
Meßkirch (; Swabian: ''Mässkirch'') is a town in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
The town was the residence of the counts of Zimmern, widely known through Count Froben Christoph's '' Zimmern Chronicle'' (1559†...
on 12 June 1740.
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