Upon the death of his father in 1840, his elder brother Hugo became the titular Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid. Upon his brother's death in 1865, he became the 3rd Count. As a landowner in Lower and Upper Franconia and a hereditary member of the Reichsrat, Schönborn-Wiesentheid was also a member of the Chamber of Imperial Councillors from 1865 to 1877.[4]
From 1874 to 1877, he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Lower Franconia (Kitzingen) for the Centre Party. In a by-election made necessary by his death on 27 November 1877, his son Friedrich Carl succeeded him in parliament.[5]
He was married to Irene, Countess Batthyány de Német-Ujvár (1811–1891), a daughter of Count Vincenz Batthyány de Német-Ujvár and Josepha Rudnyák de Bátsfa de Magyar Bel, members of a HungarianMagnate family.[6] Together, they were the parents of:[7]
Maria Irene Caroline von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (1848–1929), who married Louis Jean Victor, Duke of Bojano in 1873.[12][13]
Clemens Philipp Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (1855–1938), who married Baroness Rosario von Welczeck, a daughter of Baron Bernhard von Welczeck and Countess Louise von Hatzfeldt zu Trachenberg (a daughter of Count Max von Hatzfeldt). Her brother was Count Johannes von Welczeck.[7]
The Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid died on 24 August 1877 and was succeeded in his hereditary title by his eldest surviving son, Arthur.[5]
Descendants
Through his son Arthur, he was a grandfather of Maria von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (wife of Count Wolfgang von Oberndorff and Stanislaus, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn,[11] Johanna von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (wife of Count and Edler Erwein von und zu Eltz gen. Faust von Stromberg),[11] and Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (who married Donna Ernestina Ruffo, a daughter of Antonio Ruffo, 10th Prince of Scaletta, and Ludovica Borghese).[11]
^Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: Die Reichstagswahlen von 1867 bis 1903. Eine Statistik der Reichstagswahlen nebst den Programmen der Parteien und einem Verzeichnis der gewählten Abgeordneten. 2. Auflage. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, S. 210.
