Lot 452 Dα

Franz Georg Reichsfreiherr von Schönborn (1682 - 1756) became Elector of Trier and Prince-Abbot of Prüm in 1729, and later became Prince-Bishop of Worms and Prince-Provost of Ellwangen in 1732. The funerial altar which holds his body is located in Trier Cathedral, but his heart and other internal organs are interred in the Church of the Holy Cross in Ehrenbreitstein near Koblenz. His coat-of-arms also features prominently in the Baroque church of St. Paulin in Trier which Schönborn founded in 1734 and which was decorated and furnished by Balthasar Neumann.