Johann Wenzel Wratislaw von Mitrowitz

Before the Battle of Blenheim he supported Eugene by sending Marlborough to join him in South Germany and thereafter helping to coordinate their activities.

After the fall of Bavaria however it was not Wratislaw who was appointed governor, although that was what Eugene proposed, but Count Löwenstein, a court favourite in Vienna.

His life was made more difficult however by Joseph's tutor, Karl Theodor von Salm, who saw him as a rival and took pains to put obstacles in his path.

When Karl was crowned as Emperor Charles VI he confirmed Wratislaw in his offices, who remained from then on in Vienna, where, badly overweight, he was believed to have died on 21 December 1712 of dropsy.

His remains were interred for a year in Vienna's Totenkapelle before being moved to the Church of St. James the Great in Staré Město, Prague in 1714, following the completion of an elaborate sarcophagus by the famous Baroque architect Fischer von Erlach.