Schaffgotsch family

Gotsche II's son Hans (†1469) was the first of the family to be chancellor, court judge, and governor (German: Landeshauptmann) of the Principality of Świdnica-Jawor (Schweidnitz-Jauer).

Christoph's son, Hans Ulrich (1595–1635), a Protestant like his father, was the only Schaffgotsch who married into a dynastic house: his wife, Barbara Agnes was a princess of Liegnitz-Brieg.

[nb 1] Hans Ulrich received all rights of a Silesian sovereign and was awarded the title Semperfrei by the Holy Roman emperor.

After the Prussian capture of Silesia, Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch (1715–1795) became Bishop of Breslau, proposed by Frederick the Great who also made him a prince.

When the Cistercian provost that Gotsche II Schoff had founded at Warmbrunn in 1381 was secularized in 1810, it became owned by the comital family and housed their library with abour 80,000 volumes and other collections.

The Lower Silesian line, with its large possessions in and around the Giant and Jizera Mountains, was considered the second wealthiest family of the region before World War I.

In January 1936, Felix notified Harriman that he had found a location outside Ketchum, Idaho, that would soon become the site of Union Pacific's Sun Valley Resort.

During the resort's construction, he returned to Austria to recruit instructors for the Sun Valley ski school, who he confided to actor David Niven were, "all Nazis."

[2] After World War II, most members of the Schaffgotsch family were expelled from their homes because they were ethnic Germans, while Polish and Czechoslovak authorities confiscated their properties.