Thun und Hohenstein

The family maintained an expansive library, including two important albums depicting artistically and technologically innovative armour made for the Habsburg court during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

The title of Fürst (Prince) was conferred on 19 July 1911 by Emperor Franz Joseph upon the head of the family, along with the style of Durchlaucht (Serene Highness), in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Count Leopold von Thun und Hohenstein (1811–1888) was a leading Austrian statesman who was later a minister in the cabinets of Schwarzenberg and Bach.

Count Franz Anton von Thun und Hohenstein, Czech: hrabě František Antonín z Thunu a Hohensteina (1847–1916) was an Austro-Hungarian nobleman and statesman.

[2] Fra' Galeas von Thun und Hohenstein (1850–1931) was the 75th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1905 to 1931.

Coat of arms of the Princes of Thun und Hohenstein
Thun Castle at Ton, Trentino , Italy
The family's original, baronial and comital arms (from left to right)
Coats of Arms of Alfonso Franz (1625–1688), Anna Barbara (1632–1709) and their daughter Pulcheria Felicitas von Thun und Hohenstein displayed on an 18th century ancestry chart
Leopold, Count von Thun und Hohenstein