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Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (Ernst Egon; 21 March 1588 in Speyer – 24 August 1635 in Constance) was Imperial Count of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1618–1635) and Bavarian Field-marshal, and an important military leader in the Thirty Years' War.
Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg was Imperial Count of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1618–1635) and Bavarian Field-marshal, and an important military leader in the Thirty Years' War.
Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (10 April 1626 – 1 April 1682) was a German count in the Holy Roman Empire. He was prime minister for the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, and at the same time worked for Louis XIV of France influencing affairs in the Empire. [1]
Fürstenberg was a county of the Holy Roman Empire in Swabia, present-day southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The county emerged when Count Egino IV of Urach inherited through marriage large parts of the Duchy of Zähringen upon the death of Duke Berthold V in 1218, and was originally called the county of Freiburg.
Egon VIII. von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg war Reichsgraf von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg sowie bayerischer Generalfeldzeugmeister und ein bedeutender Heerführer im Dreißigjährigen Krieg.
When Ferdinand Friedrich Egon Graf von Fürstenberg zu Heiligenberg was born on 6 February 1623, in Heiligenberg, Heiligenberg, Amt Pfullendorf, Baden, his father, Ernst Egon VIII. Graf von Fürstenberg zu Heiligenberg, was 34 and his mother, Anna Maria von Hohenzollern- Hechingen, was 19.
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Ernst Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (March 21, 1588 in Speyer † 24 August 1635 in Constance) was Imperial Count of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1618–1635) and Bavarian Field-marshal, and an important military leader in the Thirty Years' War.