1. Christoph Leopold Gotard Schaffgotsch

Christoph Leopold Gotard Schaffgotsch (April 8th 1623 – June 6th 1703)

Son of Hans Ulrich (a protestant by faith), who was executed as a traitor in 1653; returned to the Catholic Church; up from 1641 he started to reclaim the family estates confiscated during the reign of emperor Ferdinand III (1637–1657); lord of the Greiffenstein (Gryf) and Kynast (Chojnik) castles; lord of Warmbrunn (Cieplice), Kemnitz (Kamienica), Schmiedeberg (Kowary), etc.; Hungarian count and indigenat; treasurer of the king-emperors court; member of the imperial privy council; president of the Silesian Kammer; director of the Silesian Superior Office (Oberamt); hereditary court-master and courtly judge of the Schweidnitz-Jauer Duchy (Duchy of Świdnica-Jawor); a diplomat; knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece; in 1676, after the death of the last Piast duke, Georg Wilhelm, he reviewed the estates of the Liegnitz (Legnica) and Wohlau (Wołów) duchies, which were transferred directly into the hands of the emperor, Leopold I; during his service for the imperial court, he travelled multiple times to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; he personally knew king Jan III Sobieski and took part in the battle of Vienna in 1683; he initiated construction of the chapel on the Schneekoppe (Śnieżka) in 1668.