Eleonore von Schwarzenberg
Eleonore von Schwarzenberg was a member of the Princely House of Lobkowicz by birth, and a Princess of Schwarzenberg by marriage.
Biography
Princess Eleonore Elisabeth Amalia Magdalena of Lobkowicz, was a daughter of Prince Ferdinand August von Lobkowicz, Duke of Sagan, and his second wife, Margravine Maria Anne Wilhelmine of Baden-Baden, daughter of Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden.On 6 December 1701 Princess Eleonore married the Austrian Hofmarschall, Adam [Franz (Schwarzenberg)|Adam Franz Karl Eusebius, Hereditary Prince (and later Prince) von Schwarzenberg]. Eleonore was considered a cultivated woman, and her and her husband's wealthy and cultured lifestyle was often displayed at court. The marriage produced two children:
- Maria Anna of Schwarzenberg ; married Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden in 1721.
- Joseph I Adam of Schwarzenberg ; married Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein in 1741.
Princess Eleonore died on 5 May 1741 in the Palais Schwarzenberg in Vienna. Franz von Gersdorf, the emperor's physician, requested an autopsy from which the cause of death has been diagnosed as cervical cancer.
Legacy
The 2007 Austrian documentary The Vampire Princess features Eleonore as the supposed inspiration for Gottfried August Bürger's work Lenore (ballad).Eleonora’s dramatic maelstroms are researched and interpreted in the historical novel ‘The Case of Princess Schwarzenberg 1757’ by Martina Grenze.