{"id":109507,"date":"2017-12-09T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:01","slug":"principality-of-liechtenstein-created-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/principality-of-liechtenstein-created-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Principality of Liechtenstein created, 1719"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/56\/Coat_of_arms_of_Liechtenstein.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/56\/Coat_of_arms_of_Liechtenstein.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 123px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 101px;\" \/><\/a>The  Princely family of Liechtenstein took their name from a castle in  Austria that they owned in the twelfth- and thirteenth-centuries (the  name means &#8220;bright stone&#8221;). This wealthy dynasty acquired lands across  the Holy Roman Empire, but they only held these territories as fiefdoms<br \/>under  superior feudal nobles, to whom they often acted as close advisers. The  Third Prince, Hans-Adam I, occasionally worked for the Imperial Court  as a financial advisor when he wasn&#8217;t acquiring a substantial fortune  for himself.<\/p>\n<p>Hans-Adam used his fortune to fulfil a dynastic  ambition: to hold lands directly under the Imperial throne and thus gain  the power associated with a seat in the Imperial diet, called the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Reichstag<\/span>.  He purchased the domain of Schellenberg in 1699 and the county of Vaduz  thirteen years later just before he died. On 23rd January 1719 the Holy  Roman Emperor Charles IV decreed that the two lands were united as a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">F\u00fcrstentum<\/span> (&#8220;principality&#8221;) with the name Liechtenstein in honour of the Fifth  Prince Anton-Florian, who had served the Emperor as Chief Intendant and  Prime Minister when he was Archduke of Austria.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Princely family of Liechtenstein took their name from a castle in Austria that they owned in the twelfth- and thirteenth-centuries (the name means &#8220;bright stone&#8221;). This wealthy dynasty acquired lands across the Holy Roman Empire, but they only held these territories as fiefdomsunder superior feudal nobles, to whom they often acted as close advisers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}