Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staatsarchivs 52. (2007)
LINDQUIST, Thea: Clement von Radolt (1593–1670): A Multifarious Career in the seventeenth-century Imperial Service
Clement von Radolt (1593-1670) unknown. He may have died as a young man, for unlike his siblings he is not mentioned in his father’s 1668 will. On 8 December 1670, at the age of 77, Clement Edler von Radolt, baron and Hofkammer director, died in his house on Annagasse. His body was interred in the family vault he had purchased in the newly built Dominican Church.85 Radolt’s will makes abundantly clear that he had made a very comfortable living in the Imperial service. By the time of his death, he had succeeded in building a substantial fortune, accumulating enough wealth to leave generous bequests to his family members, friends, and servants as well as to several religious and secular foundations.86 Radolt owned several properties in and around Vienna, the most important being his two houses in the city. He left his large house on Bauernmarkt and its contents to his granddaughters Maria Andl and Maria Fränzl, Wolf Franz’s daughters.87 To Franz Galeazzo, his “universal” heir, he left all his remaining properties - three residences and a garden - and their contents, with the exception of the house on Annagasse.88 This house along with his personal belongings - the contents of his living room, his books, etc. - he left to Franz Galeazzo’s son Wenzel Ludwig, who must have been a special favorite of his grandfather. Franz Galeazzo, however, oversaw the boy’s inheritance while he was a minor.89 85 Pfarrarchiv St. Stephan, Barleihbuch 1670, f. 146. Radolt’s doctor determined the cause of death to be a catarrh, specifically a Stöckh Catharr (Stück Katarrh). The vault is located in the right side aisle, turned sideways in front of the altar of St. Dominic. There is a red marble plate in the floor inscribed: BURIAL VAULT OF THE FAMILY B. RADOLT 1649, in this grave rests Clement von Radolt, Imperial Royal Hofkammer Director, who in 1656 was raised with his three sons to the Freihermstand by Emperor Ferdinand III. He died in 1659 (“Eine rothe Marmorplatte im Boden, darauf: SEPULTURA|FAMILIAE|B. RADOLT|1649 In diesem Begräbnisse ruhet Clemens von Radolt, k. k. Hof-Kammerdirekor, welcher mit seinem 3 Söhnen 1656 von Kaiser Ferdinand III in den Freihermstand erhoben wurde. Er starb 1659.”). (Grabmale und Grabinschriften in der Dominikaner-Kirche zu Wien. Berichte des Alterthums Vereines zu Wien 26 [1890], p. 211). Church records, however, belie both this death date and that of 1668 given in 850 Jahre St. Stephan. 86 HHStA, Oberstmarschallamt, cart. 625: original will of 5 Nov. 1668, revised and corrected on 5 Sept. 1670, published on 7 Dec. 1670. This document includes an inventory of specific bequests of 6 November 1668, instructions for burial of 31 December 1666, and an agreement with the Convent of St. Jakob in Vienna of December 1659 that provided for the support of his daughters there. Radolt wished for a Christian burial in the family vault, without pomp, display of arms, or anything else of smacking of worldly familiarity (“ohn einige pomp, oder fürstellung der Wappen, oder was sonsten von weltlicher gewohnheit”). 87 WStLA, GB 1/15, f. 273; Harrer: Wien, vol. 1, p. 698. Maria Anna, now Baroness Arianzaga, sold the house in 1692. 88 For more information on these properties, see pp. 22-23. 89 As previously noted, Franz Galeazzo requested exemption from court quarter for the house on Annagasse in 1671. It was still in his name in 1684, but Wenzel Ludwig sold it in 1693 to Ferdinand Emmrich, Count Kollonitsch. (Harrer: Wien, vol. 5, p. 356; Schimmer: Ausführliche Häuser-Chronik, p. 191). 27
