Starhemberg

County (Principality) of Starhemberg Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Starhemberg
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1643–1806 →
Capital		Starhemberg
Government		Principality
Historical era		Early Modern Age
-	Castle built by Ottokar III,     Margrave of Styria	1140–45
-	County gained     Reichsfreiheit	1643
-	Raised to principality	1765
-	Mediatised to the     Austrian Empire	1806

Starhemberg is the name of an Austrian noble family hailing from Upper Austria, specifically Steyr and Steinbach, who were Counts of the Empire from 1643, raised to princes in 1765. The family's museum is in Castle Starhemberg in Eferding, Upper Austria.

Notable people

• Eberhard IV of Starhemberg (ca 1370–1429), Archbishop of Salzburg from 1427 until his death
• Erasmus of Starhemberg
• Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638–1701), Austrian politician, field marshal, the defender of Vienna against the Turks in 1683, commander of the Vienna city defence
• Maximilian Lorenz Starhemberg (ca 1640–89), Imperial field marshal and commander of the fortress of Philippsburg, brother of Ernst Rüdiger
• Gundaker Thomas Starhemberg (1663–1745), half-brother of Ernst Rüdiger, financial expert
• Bohunka Starhemberg (died 1530), wife of the Bohemian noble Jost III of Rosenberg, who died at the birth of their daughter
• Guido Starhemberg (1657–1737), Austrian commander during the War of the Spanish Succession
• Maria Eva Sophia of Starhemberg (1722–73)
• Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1861–1927), Austrian politician and landowner
• Fanny von Starhemberg (1875–1943), Austrian politician for the Christian Social Party
• Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg (1899–1956), Austrian politician, Vice-Chancellor of Austria and Heimwehr
• Heinrich Starhemberg, (1934–97) son of Ernst Rüdiger and Nora Gregor, actor and writer using the pseudonym Henry Gregor