Schönborn is the name of a The word German can mean: From or related to Germany or its predecessor states - see also the German language Germanic tribes Holy Roman Empire (843-1806) German Confederation (1815-1866) North German Confederation (1867 - 1871) German Empire (1871-1918) Weimar Republic (1919-1933) Nazi Germany (1933-1945) West Germany (1949...German noble family, many members of which were prelates of the Church. There are several branches of this family, including Schönborn_Wiesentheid, Schönborn_Heussenstamm, Schönborn_Buchheim and Schönborn_Hartenstein

Prelates

(1) Johann Philipp von Schönborn was Between 780/82 AD and 1802 AD the Archbishop of Mainz, was an influential ecclesiastic and secular prince of the middle ages. ...Archbishop of Mainz and The Bishopric of Würzburg was an ecclesiastical principality in the Holy Roman Empire, located in Lower Franconia. ...Bishop of Würzburg and Worm can refer to: The worm, a collection of animal phyla. ...Worms (b. at Eschbach in the Westerwald, 6 August, 1605; d. at Würzburg, 12 February, 1673). When sixteen years old he became a cleric (an expectant for a canonicate) at the cathedral of Würzburg, and in 1625 at that of Mainz. He became cathedral canon at Würzburg in 1629, and at Worms in 1630. In 1635 he was made This article is about the ecclesiastical title of provost. ...provost of Kronberg and of St. Burkard at Würzburg. On 16 August, 1642, he became Bishop of Würzburg (deacon, 1642; priest, 1645); on 18 November, 1647, he was made Archbishop of Mainz, and in 1663 Bishop of Worms. His contemporaries gave him the honourable titles of "The Wise", "The German Solomon", and "The Cato of Germany". He succeeded in repairing the injuries inflicted upon his domains by the Thirty Years' War, settled the disputes as to territory with the neighboring rulers, reorganized the higher civil service, and improved the administration of justice. To compensate for the scarcity of priests and to raise the standard of the secular clergy he called to Mainz and Würzburg the Bartholomites, an institute founded by Bartholomew Holzhauser (Institutum clericorum saecularium in communi viventium); in 1654 he transferred to them the administration of the ecclesiastical seminary at Würzburg, and in 1660 also that of the gymnasium founded by him at Munnerstadt. In 1662 he established a seminary for priests at Mainz. Urged by the Jesuit This article needs to be wikified. ...Friedrich von Spee, he suppressed the trial of witches in his domains, and thus contributed, as far as was in his power, to the abolition of this miserable delusion. He was surrounded at his court by a large number of distinguished men, statesmen, diplomats, scholars, and pious ecclesiastics.

(2) Lothar Franz von Schönborn. Nephew of the above, was Between 780/82 AD and 1802 AD the Archbishop of Mainz, was an influential ecclesiastic and secular prince of the middle ages. ...Archbishop of Mainz (1695_1729) and Bishop of Bamberg (1693).

(3) Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn. Prince The Bishop of Speyer is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer in the Archdiocese of Bamberg. ...Bishop of Speyer (1719_43) and of This article needs cleanup. ...Constance (1740), and was also a cardinal. He did much for the Diocese of Speyer, and was conspicuous for his culture, learning, and piety.

(4) Franz Georg von Schönborn was The Archbishopric of Trier was one of the important ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire. ...Archbishop of Trier (1729_56) and Bishop of Worms (1732). Both Frederick the Great Frederick II of Prussia (Friedrich der Große, Frederick the Great, January 24, 1712 – August 17, 1786) was the Hohenzollern king of Prussia 1740–86. ...Frederick the Great and This page is about Maria Theresa of Austria (often only known as Empress Maria Theresa), ruler of the Habsburg Empire from 1740_1780. ...Maria Theresa praised him as an excellent ruler.

(5) Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn was The Bishopric of Würzburg was an ecclesiastical principality in the Holy Roman Empire, located in Lower Franconia. ...Bishop of Würzburg (1719_24).

(6) Friedrich Karl von Schönborn was Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg (1729_46). The last three prelates were brothers, and nephews of Lothar Franz.

(7) Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn. Born at Prague, 24 Jan., 1844; d. 25 June, 1899. He became Archbishop of Prague in 1885, and was created cardinal in 1889.

(8) Christoph Cardinal Schönborn His Eminence Christoph Cardinal Schönborn OP (who would have been Count Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter Adalbert von Schönborn if Austrian law on nobility were not in place), born on January 22, 1945 at Skalka castle west of Lovosice, in Bohemia, which is...Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, is the current Archbishop of Vienna.

Links

• [1]  (http://www.schoenborn.de/geschichte/index.html) - history of the family (in German).
• [2] (http://www.fuerstenfamilien.de/heft_13.html) - history and arms (in German).
• [3]  (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/schonborn.html) - genealogy.

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