Gundaker Thomas Starhemberg

Gundaker Thomas Graf von Starhemberg (Vienna, December 14, 1663 – Prague, July 8, 1745) was an Austrian nobleman, politician and economist.

His parents were Konrad Balthasar von Starhemberg (1612–1687) and his second wife, Countess Franziska Katharina Cavriani (1640-1716).

Gundakar was designated early for an ecclesiastical career, but after studying a while at the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum, he returned to Vienna and entered in the service of the Austrian Emperor.

He returned to service in the crisis period after the death of Charles VI and prevented the financial collapse of the empire.

They had: After the death of his wife, he remarried on 3 February 1707 with Countess Maria Josepha Irene Jörger zu Tollet (1668-1746), and had 2 more daughters:

Gundaker Thomas Starhemberg
Starhemberg (top center) as one of the 4 advisors on the Maria-Theresia Memorial in Vienna