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Windisch-Graetz, Pankraz Graf
© Copyright Count Pankraz Windisch-Graetz. Miniature taken from the Khevenhüller-Pankraz-codex (library of Mattsee monastery, province of Salzburg). Windisch-Graetz, Count Pankraz, b. 1525, d. Oct. 20, 1591, leader of the protestant aristocracy of the duchies of Styria, Carinthia, Carniola (Krain) and the county of Gorizia (Görz); 1556-1579 governor ("Schlosshauptmann") of the castle of Graz, built the palace of Saurau-Goess in Sporgasse (Turk with a shield and a sword below the projecting roof, the original is exhibited in the Stadtmuseum Graz, the municipal museum of Graz). Literature: P. Radics, Die Fürsten zu Windisch-Grätz, 1894.
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