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LINDQUIST, Thea: Clement von Radolt (1593–1670): A Multifarious Career in the seventeenth-century Imperial Service
Clement von Radolt (1593-1670) The financial and social achievements of the father are even more telling in the successful careers and marriages of his sons.75 Two of Radolt’s three sons followed him into the expanding Imperial central administration, a trend that reinforced the tendency towards the establishment of family groupings in government service. Radolt’s eldest son Wolf Franz served as a Hofkammer councilor like his father but attained the position at a much younger age.76 In 1661, he married Jacobina Barbara, daughter of Martin von Hafher, a regent of Lower Austria, and his wife Helena (Teüblin).77 Sadly, Wolf Franz did not survive his father. He died in the house on Annagasse on 10 February 1663 at the age of 29. Besides his wife, he left behind two daughters, Maria Anna and Maria Franziska, whom their grandfather fondly called Maria Andl and Maria Fränzl.78 Radolt’s youngest son Franz Galeazzo also joined the Imperial service, and he made an excellent match to boot. In 1667, he married Maria Polixena, daughter of Johann Rudolf, Baron Schwarzenhom, the famed Imperial ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, and his wife Helena (Fellner von Feldegg).79 Franz Galeazzo and Maria Polixena’s first son, Wenzel Ludwig, was bom later that year. Wenzel Ludwig became a man of independent means and a musician and composer of some some discrepancies in the record (noted in parentheses), including Clara on 4 January 1644 (mother recorded as Catharina), Maria Lucretia on 23 August 1648, and Anna on 28 March 1651 (father recorded as Martinus Radoldt). (Koczirz: Österreichische Lautenmusik, p. 55 n. 6). 75 The fate of the Radolt family through the mid-eighteenth century may be traced in Ha an, Friedrich von: Genealogische Auszüge aus den beim bestandenen Niederösterreichischen LandmarschalTschen Gerichte publicierten Testamenten. Jahrbuch der k. k. Gesellschaft Adler, n.s. 10 (1900), pp. 80-319. 76 HKA, FA R-10, ff. 72-73: 29 Apr. 1659; HKA, HZAB 106 (1660-1661), f. 6; HKA, HZAB 107 (1662), f. 129; HKA, HZAB 108 (1663), f. 5. Wolf Franz was a councilor by age 25, and he served in this position from 1659 to 1663. This implies not only that he had legal training but also that he had previous government experience. 77 Koczirz: Österreichische Lautenmusik, p. 54 n. 2. The prelate of Heiliger Kreuz married the couple on 21 February 1661 in the Chapel of St. Barbara. If the incumbent was the same as in 1670, he was Clement Schöffer, one of the executors (and beneficiaries) of Radolt’s will. The bride’s father, Martin Hafner, was a son of a mayor of Vienna and knight in the Lower Austrian nobility. He served as Austrian procurator at the University of Vienna the same year Radolt served as Rhenish procurator, and also as a dean and rector. (Niederösterreichische Statthalterei, p. 436). 78 Koczirz: Österreichische Lautenmusik, pp. 54-55 n. 2. Wolf Franz died of a catarrh. Maria Anna was baptized on 18 August 1662 and her sister Maria Franziska on 6 August 1663. 79 Meienberger, Peter: Johann Rudolf Schmid zum Schwarzenhom als kaiserlicher Resident in Konstantinopel in den Jahren 1629-1643: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen Österreich und der Türkei in der ersten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts, Geist und Werk der Zeiten, Arbeiten aus dem Historischen Seminar der Universität Zürich, ed. Rudolf von Albertini, vol. 37, Bern-Frankfurt a. M. 1973, p. 141. The Altenburg prelate married the couple on 30 January 1667 at the Schottenkirche. (Koczirz: Österreichische Lautenmusik, p. 55). 25
