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Franz Georg von Metternich
Franz Georg von Metternich was a Rhenish count and diplomat in Habsburg service, the father of the Austrian chancellor Klemens von Metternich. He served as Austrian minister in the Austrian Netherlands until the French conquest. Having lost his family lands on the left bank of the Rhine to France, he received the secularised abbey of Ochsenhausen in 1803 as compensation and was raised to the rank of prince.
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