Georg Adam, Prince of Starhemberg


Johann Georg Adam Graf von Starhemberg, since 1765 Frst von Starhemberg was an Austrian diplomat, minister, chief chamberlain and close confidant of Empress Maria Theresa

Georg Adam was born in London as the fifth son to the Imperial envoy Konrad Sigmund Graf von Starhemberg and his wife Leopoldine, ne Frstin von Lwenstein. King George I became his godfather. He had two notable greatuncles. Gundaker Thomas von Starhemberg , a financial expert at the court in Vienna who played a key role in the education of Georg Adam and Count Ernst Rdiger von Starhemberg , the military governor of Vienna and leading figure in the Battle of Vienna and the subsequent Great Turkish War from 1683 to 1699.

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