He was the imperial royal chamberlain and adviser for the Habsburg family.

He protected the family's patronage and had a hunting lodge built in Fertőd, which was expanded over 50 years later under Prince Nicholas I of Esterházy to become Esterházy Castle (Fertőd), one of the most representative castle complexes in Hungary.

He is buried in the family crypt in the Franciscan monastery in Eisenstadt.

He died without a male heir, so his half-brother Joseph became the next head of the family.

In Vienna , when he was a student, he published his dissertation: Regula regum amor et timor sive Ladislaus rex Hungariae... Dicata 27.