Both genealogies of polyhistor Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641–1693), published at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th centuries, end with the first generation of his offspring. Until recently, his subsequent descendants had been completely unknown. Less than a half of his children had survived childhood. Their subsequent life stories were relatively similar: none of them passed away in their own home and as many as five out of six died in monasteries. The youngest daughter, Regina Konstancija, has been recently rediscovered after having disappeared into oblivion for over a century; she was the only one of Valvasor’s children to have grandchildren. Of Valvasor’s many talents and interests, his descendants inherited primarily his love of uniform, with a number of officers having served in different armies, but at least some of them also inherited the affinity for the written word. On the other hand, Valvasor’s material legacy had been lost already in the generation of his children. Among his descendants, the knowledge of their famous ancestor passed into oblivion relatively swiftly.
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New discoveries have confirmed the author’s assumption that the old town house in Krško, which for a century and a half was believed to have been the last home of the Carniolan polymath Janez Vajkart Valvasor (1641-1693), was owned by his successors, the Dienersperg Barons. This fact nearly led to the mistaken belief that the house belonged to Valvasor (1859). Besides this, the Dienerspergs inherited the house from Anton von Hohenwart (1768-1846), who owned it between 1826-1846 and who was a descendant of Valvasor’s half-brother Karl and who possibly also contributed to the belief that the house once belonged to the Carniolan polymath. Von Hohenwart, a history aficionado, left to the Carniolan Regional Museum in Ljubljana his relatively rich collection of old artifacts and documents. His house, which served as a kind of a private museum in the second quarter of the 19th century, a fact once completely forgotten, today accidentally happens to be part of the Krško City Museum.
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In the eastern Alpine area a predominantly Slavic gentile Duchy of Carantania was established in the early Middle Ages, the destiny of which is depicted in the record Libellus de conversione Bagoariorum et Carantanorum ad fidem christianam. Combined with absorbing and expanding earlier findings, the knowledge and interpretations of the said record have in the consciousness of humanistic historiographers gradually developed an ever clearer and more distinct picture about Carantania.
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