Starhemberg
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The House of Starhemberg is an old and distinguished Austrian noble family of princely rank and historically sovereign status. The family originated in Upper Austria, specifically in the region of Ste
Original arms of the family
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
Starhemberg
…Bohunka von Starhemberg (died 1530), wife of the Bohemian noble Jost III of Rosenberg, who died at the birth of their daughter Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638–1701), Austrian politician, field marshal, the defender of Vienna against the Turks in 1683, commander of the Vienna city defence Maximilian…
Portrait, copy after Peter Schenk the Elder
Epitaph of Count Starhemberg in Vienna's Schottenkirche