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Joseph II
Prince of Schwarzenberg

Born	(1769-06-27)27 June 1769 Vienna, Archduchy of Austria
Died	19 December 1833(1833-12-19) (aged 64) Frauenberg, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire
Noble family	House of Schwarzenberg
Spouse(s)	Princess Pauline Karolina Iris von Arenberg-Aarschot
Issue	Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg
Father	Johann I, Prince of Schwarzenberg
Mother	Countess Maria Eleonora von Oettingen-Wallerstein

Joseph II Johann 6th Prince of Schwarzenberg (Vienna, June 27, 1769 - Frauenberg, December 19, 1833) was a German-Bohemian nobleman from the Schwarzenberg family.

Biography

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Joseph was born as the first son of Johann I, Prince of Schwarzenberg and Countess Maria Eleonora von Oettingen-Wallerstein and succeeded his father in 1789. He was active in the banking sector.

In 1798 he bought the Stubenbach and Gutwasser estates with the attached domains of Stachau, Altstadln and Neustadln. In 1801 or 1803 he acquired Willmendingen Castle in Klettgau, and in 1810 the Libějovice property.

In 1802 he ceded to his younger brother Karl Philipp, who later became Field Marshal, the second majorate of the Princely House and part of the family property, including Orlík Castle.

In 1806, after the occupation by the French, he lost sovereignty over the Franconian and Swabian possessions of his House.
In 1808 Joseph was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece.
His wife Pauline died in 1810 in a fire during a ball in the garden of the Austrian embassy in Paris in honor of Napoleon's marriage to Marie-Louise of Austria.

Marriage and offspring

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Joseph married in May 1794 Princess Pauline Karolina Iris von Arenberg-Aarschot (September 2, 1774 - July 2, 1810), daughter of Louis Engelbert, 6th Duke of Arenberg, and had six daughters and three sons:

Marie Eleonore (1795–1848), married 1817 Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787–1862)
Marie Pauline (1798–1821), married 1817 Heinrich Eduard 2nd Prince of Schönburg-Hartenstein (1787–1872)
Johann Adolph Joseph (1799–1888), married 1830 Eleonore Princess of Liechtenstein (1812–1873), 7th Prince of Schwarzenberg.
Felix Ludwig (1800–1852), Prime Minister of Austria
Aloysia Eleonore (1803–1884), married Heinrich Eduard Prince of Schönburg-Waldenburg-Hartenstein, the widower of her sister Marie Pauline.
Mathilde Therese (1804–1886)
Maria Karolina (1806–1875), married 1831 Ferdinand, 2nd Prince of Bretzenheim (1801–1855)
Anna Bertha (1807–1883), married Prince August Longin Lobkowitz (1797–1842)
Friedrich Johann (1809–1885), 1835 Archbishop of Salzburg, Cardinal and Prince Archbishop of Prague.