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[[File:Wappen Lichnowsky Werdenberg.jpg|thumb|Coat of arms of Prince Lichnowsky, Count of [[Werdenberg (Holy Roman Empire)|Werdenberg]]]]

The '''House of Lichnowsky''' or '''House of Lichnovský''' is the name of an influential Czech aristocratic family of [[Silesia]]n and [[Moravia]]n origin, documented since the 14th century.

== History ==
The noble family first appeared in the [[Duchy of Pless]] (Pszczyna) in [[Upper Silesia]], when one Estepan de Woszyczyki, probably from Woszczyce ({{langx|de|Woschtitz}}) near [[Orzesze]], on 17 March 1377 obtained the office of a ''[[Schultheiß]]'' reeve in [[Lędziny]] from the [[Přemyslid dynasty|Přemyslid]] duke [[John I, Duke of Opava-Ratibor|John of Opava]]. His descendant Hanuš (John) of Woszczyki, judge in the Upper Silesian [[Duchy of Krnov]] from 1498 to 1507, by marriage acquired the estates of [[Lichnov (Bruntál District)|Lichnov]] in Moravia. He is first mentioned with his surname Lichnovský in a 1494 deed.

== Ennoblements ==
* Franz Bernhard Lichnowsky (1664–1747): [[Lands of the Bohemian Crown|Bohemian]] ''[[Freiherr]]'' ([[Baron]]) with the [[nobiliary particle]] of an ''[[Edler]] von Woschtitz'' in 1702<ref name="Pátek 2024" />
* Karl Franz Leopold Bernhard Lichnowsky (1690–1742), son: Bohemian ''[[Graf]]'' ([[Count]]) on 1 January 1721, [[Imperial Count]] on 27 May 1727
* ''[[Geheimrat]]'' Friedrich Carl Johann Amadeus Lichnowsky (1720–1788), son: ''[[Fürst]]'' ([[Prince]]) in [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] on 30 January 1773; the princely title was not recognised in [[Austrian Empire|Austria]] until 30 December 1846
The head of the family was an hereditary member of the [[Prussian House of Lords]] from 12 October 1854 and was granted the title of ''[[Durchlaucht]]'' (Serene Highness) in Prussia on 8 March 1860.

== Notable members ==
* [[Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky]] (1761–1814), patron of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] and [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]<ref name="Boyd 1999" />
* Moritz Lichnowsky (1771–1837), younger brother of Karl Alois and a faithful friend of [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]
* Eduard Lichnowsky (1789–1845), writer<ref name="Young 1977" />
* [[Felix Lichnowsky|Felix, Prince Lichnowsky]] (5 April 1814 – 18 September 1848), politician<ref name="Horsch 2023" />
* [[Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky]] (8 March 1860 – 27 February 1928), German ambassador in London<ref name="Schneider 2012" />
* [[Mechtilde Lichnowsky]] (1879–1958), his wife<ref name="Emonts 2009" />
* Margarethe von Lichnowsky (1863–1954), wife of [[Count]] [[Karol Lanckoroński]]<ref name="Rombach 1993" />

== References ==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="Boyd 1999">{{cite book
| last        = Boyd
| first       = Malcolm
| last2       = Butt
| first2      = John
| title       = J.S. Bach
| publisher   = Oxford University Press
| date        = 1999
| isbn        = 978-0-19-866208-2
| url         = https://www.google.com/books/edition/J_S_Bach/N6sCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
| access-date = 27 June 2025
| page        = 385
}}</ref>
<ref name="Emonts 2009">{{cite book
| last        = Emonts
| first       = Anne Martina
| title       = Mechtilde Lichnowsky: Sprachlust und Sprachkritik : Annäherung an ein Kulturphänomen
| publisher   = Königshausen & Neumann
| date        = 2009
| isbn        = 978-3-8260-3912-6
| url         = https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mechtilde_Lichnowsky/mcLGy5_HMngC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA101&printsec=frontcover
| language    = de
| access-date = 27 June 2025
| page        = 101
}}</ref>
<ref name="Horsch 2023">{{cite book
| last        = Horsch
| first       = Nadja
| last2       = Scholz-Hänsel
| first2      = Michael
| last3       = Sonius
| first3      = Marta Oliveira
| title       = Gardens of the Iberian Peninsula: New perspectives on an entangled history
| publisher   = Frank & Timme GmbH
| date        = 22 November 2023
| isbn        = 978-3-7329-0971-1
| url         = https://www.google.com/books/edition/Gardens_of_the_Iberian_Peninsula/uGvmEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA164&printsec=frontcover
| access-date = 27 June 2025
| page        = 164
}}</ref>
<ref name="Pátek 2024">{{cite book
| last        = Pátek
| first       = Jakub
| last2       = Žáková
| first2      = Michaela
| last3       = Županič
| first3      = Jan
| title       = Nobility in the Pre-Modern and Modern Period
| publisher   = Böhlau Wien
| date        = 17 June 2024
| isbn        = 978-3-205-21963-7
| url         = https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nobility_in_the_Pre_Modern_and_Modern_Pe/uUIQEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA42&printsec=frontcover
| access-date = 27 June 2025
| page        = 42
}}</ref>
<ref name="Rombach 1993">{{cite book
| title       = Hofmannsthal: Jahrbuch zur europäischen Moderne
| publisher   = Rombach
| date        = 1993
| isbn        = 978-3-7930-9375-6
| url         = https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hofmannsthal/XfpbAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
| language    = de
| access-date = 27 June 2025
| page        = 209
}}</ref>
<ref name="Schneider 2012">{{cite book
| last        = Schneider
| first       = Thomas
| last2       = Raulwing
| first2      = Peter
| title       = Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich: Ideology, Scholarship, and Individual Biographies
| publisher   = BRILL
| date        = 8 November 2012
| isbn        = 978-90-04-24329-3
| url         = https://www.google.com/books/edition/Egyptology_from_the_First_World_War_to_t/TmKGDb3WUt0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA85&printsec=frontcover
| language    = de
| access-date = 27 June 2025
| page        = 85
}}</ref>
<ref name="Young 1977">{{cite book
| last        = Young
| first       = Harry F.
| title       = Prince Lichnowsky and the Great War
| publisher   = University of Georgia Press
| date        = 1977
| isbn        = 978-0-8203-0385-7
| url         = https://www.google.com/books/edition/Prince_Lichnowsky_and_the_Great_War/TzMKAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
| access-date = 27 June 2025
| page        = 5
}}</ref>
}}

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160306203927/http://www.kitenews.com.br/Lichnowsky/pages/genealogy.htm Genealogy of the Lichnowsky family]

{{Surname|Lichnowsky ([[von Lichnowsky]]), [[Lichnowski]] ([[Lichnowska]]), [[Lichnovský]] ([[Lichnovská]])}}

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