Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg was military governor of Vienna from 1680, the city's defender during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, Imperial general during the Great Turkish War, and President of
Portrait, copy after Peter Schenk the Elder
Epitaph of Count Starhemberg in Vienna's Schottenkirche
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The Great Turkish War was a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League consisting of the Holy Roman Empire, Poland-Lithuania, Venice, Russia, and the Kingdom of Hungary. Intens
Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg
…1638 – 4 January 1701) was military governor of Vienna from 1680, the city's defender during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, Imperial general during the Great Turkish War, and President of the Hofkriegsrat. By birth, he was a member of the House of Starhemberg. He was born in Graz, Styria, as son of Count Conrad Balthasar…
From top left: The Battle of Vienna, the Siege of Buda, the Azov campaigns, the Battle of Zenta
The Holy League took Buda after a long siege in 1686
Mustafa II came to power during the war, where he personally commanded the Ottoman Army.
Sobieski at Vienna by Stanisław Chlebowski – king John III of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania