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See also:EGGENBERG, HANS IILRICH VON, See also:PRINCE (1568-1634) , See also:Austrian statesman, was a son of Siegfried von Eggenberg (d. 1594), and began See also:life as a soldier in the See also:Spanish service, becoming about 1596 a trusted servant of the See also:archduke of See also:Styria, after-wards the See also:emperor See also:Ferdinand II. Having become a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, he was soon the See also:chancellor and See also:chief adviser of Ferdinand, whose See also:election as emperor he helped to secure in 1619. He directed the imperial policy daring the earlier See also:part of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, and was in See also:general a friend and supporter of See also:Wallenstein, and an opponent of See also:Maximilian I., See also:duke of See also:Bavaria, and of See also:Spain. He was largely responsible for Wallenstein's return to the imperial service See also:early in 1632, and retired from public life just after the general's See also:murder in See also:February 1634, dying
at See also:Laibach, on the 18th of See also:October 1634. Eggenberg's See also:influence with Ferdinand was so marked that it was commonly said that See also:Austria rested upon three hills (Berge): Eggenberg, Questenberg and Werdenberg. He was richly rewarded for his services to the emperor. Having received many valuable estates in Bohemia and elsewhere, he was made a prince of the See also:Empire in 1623, and duke of See also:Krumau in 1625.
See H. von Zwiedineck-Siidenhorst, Hans See also:Ulrich, See also:Furst von Eggenberg (See also:Vienna, 188o) ; and F. Mares, Beitrage zur Geschichte der Beziehungen See also:des Fiirsten J. U. von Eggenberg zu Kaiser Ferdinand II and zu Waldstein (See also:Prague, 1893).
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