Marie Ernestine von Eggenberg
(1649 - 1719) | maiden name Schwarzenberg Aristocrat |
Marie Arnoštka married
Johann
Christian I. von Eggenberg in 1666. Since they did not have any
children from that marriage, all of the Eggenberg properties went
to the closest relatives of Marie Ernestine von Eggenberg, the
Schwarzenbergs,
after she died. Her nephew Adam Franz zu
Schwarzenberg received the properties, and to them added Český
Krumlov, Vimperk, Orlík and Zvíkov, thus creating the most
wide-ranging estates in the South of Bohemia. This very cultured
woman and her husband Johann Christian built the court up to a very
high cultural level.
(mj)