Count Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau

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Count Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau, (Vienna, June 8, 1696 - Vienna, June 4, 1749), interim governor of the Austrian Netherlands (1741 - 1744).

He was the son of Aloys Thomas Raimund Count Harrach (1669-1742) and Countess Anna Caecilie von Thannhausen (1674-1721).

He married February 5, 1719 Princess Eleonora of Liechtenstein (1703-17 July 1757), daughter of Anton Florian of Liechtenstein. They had 16 children;

Franz Anton (13 May 1720 - 25 March 1724)
Maria Rosa (20 August 1721 - 29 August 1785)
Johann Josef (18 September 1722 - 8 December 1746)
Ernst Guido (8 September 1723 - 23 March 1783); his successor
Maria Anna (27 April 1725 - 29 April 1780)
Anna Viktoria (1726 - 6 January 1746)
Maria Josephina (20 November 1727 - 15 February 1788); married her cousin, Prince Johann Nepomuk Karl of Liechtenstein
Maximilian Josef (13 September 1729 - 6 March 1730)
Bonaventura (20 March 1731 - 14 February 1794)
Ignaz Ludwig (2 October 1732 - 11 March 1753)
Franz Xaver (2 October 1732 - 15 February 1781)
Johann Leopold (12 December 1733 - 27 September 1734)
Maria Elisabeth (19 May 1735 - 9 June 1735)
Ferdinand (4 January 1737 - 27 March 1748)
Johann Nepomuk Ernst (20 May 1738 - 17 December 1739)
Maria Christina (24 July 1740 - 27 November 1791)

Ernst Guido's great-great-grandson was Lieutenant Colonel Count Franz von Harrach, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria's bodyguard when he was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914.

Joseph Haydn was born in the village of Rohrau, where the related Counts of Harrach had their palace. His father Mathias Haydn, was a wheelwright and his mother, the former Maria Koller, had previously worked as a cook in the palace of Count Karl Anton von Harrach.