Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels

Roman Catholic archbishop

Date of Birth: 13-May-1708

Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 15-Apr-1784

Profession: Catholic priest

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels (13 May 1708 – 15 April 1784) was the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and the Bishop of Münster from 1761 to 1784. He was born in Cologne, son of Albert-Eusebius-Franz von Königsegg-Rothenfels and his wife Maria von Manderscheid-Blankenheim.
He was the first Elector of Cologne to come from outside the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty since 1583. He was the first employer and patron of the young Ludwig van Beethoven, who at age twelve composed Three Early Piano Sonatas, WoO 47 in his honor.
These works, known as the Kurfürstensonaten (Prince-Elector sonatas) in German, were not assigned an opus number by Beethoven and are not included in the "canonical" count of 32 piano sonatas, which begins with Op.
2 No.
1 in F minor and ends with Op.
111 in C minor.