!!!Wratislaw, Johann Wenzel Graf

b. Prague (Czech Republic), Jan. 25, 1669, 
d. Vienna, Dec. 21, 1712, diplomat. Brought about the alliance between 
Emperor Leopold I and England in 1701 in the  War of the Spanish 
Succession; accompanied Emperor Karl Vl on his journeys to Spain 
and England; served as an intermediary between the Duke of Marlborough 
and the imperial troops (under Prince  Eugène of Savoy) from 
1705; confidant of Emperor Karl VI in Vienna. appointed Bohemian 
Chancellor by Emperor Joseph I, he commissioned J. B. Fischer von 
Erlach to build the Bohemian Court Chancellery (now the seat of the 
Austrian Administrative and Constitutional Courts). W. entered into 
negotiations with the Kuruc rebels protesting against Habsburg rule in 
Hungary and with the Swedish King Carl XII in Altranstaedt (led 
to the conclusion of a treaty on the improvement of the status of 
Silesian Protestants on Sept. 1, 1707). Together with Prince 
Eugène he managed to set up an office for external affairs and 
national defence ("Geheime Konferenz", in 1699). Died at the age of 43 
due to obesity.

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