Background
She was the daughter of the imperial envoy Clemens August of Westphalia.
She was the daughter of the imperial envoy Clemens August of Westphalia.
From 1792 onwards he studied at Jura and the University of Wurzburg.
That year Franz also took over the entail on the Schönborn-Besitzungen in the Holy Roman Empire. In 1806 the county of Wiesentheid was handed over to the Kingdom of Bavaria as part of German Mediatisation. As a result, Franz Erwein von Schönborn mainly focused on administering his Frankish estates and those in the wine-growing areas of Rheingau.
In 1811 he and his family moved to Munich, where he met Ludwig, Crown Prince of Bavaria the following year.
He was given the rank of major general in the Bavarian army and began to operate as an art collector, making contact with several major artists. On his wife"s death in 1813, Schönborn moved to Schloss Gaibach, rebuilding it between 1800 and 1830.
He also added a park in the English style, in which he built a Constitution Column. In 1828 he also completed a Constitution Hall in the castle, painted at von Klenze"s suggestion by Carl Heinrich Hermann and Jakob Götzenberger, two of Peter von Cornelius"s pupils.
Schönborn"s collection ranked alongside Ludwig"s own as two of the most notable ones in southern Germany.
He was elected from 1832 to 1837.
As a state counselor of Bavaria, Schönborn was a member of the state"s Imperial Council from 1819 until his death. He sometimes served as Vice President of the Privy Council, in which capacity he represented the Council at the 1819 funeral of Anton Eggstein, the first Bavarian member of parliament to die in office. Schönborn was also hereditarily appointed as a member of the first chamber of the Nassau Landstände according to the Nassau Ducal Edict of 29 October 1831.