Wenceslas Adalbert Sternberg (Václav Vojtěch Šternberk)
Václav Vojtěch of Sternberg (1643-1708), is characterized by cent literature as someone ‘who manifested himself in his adult life as a “good householder”, a successful politician, and above all an educated sponsor. (Hojda 2022, p. 333). Among others, he had built the Troja suburban villa in Prague. Together with his younger brothers Johann Norbert (1644-1678) and Ignaz Karl (about 1646-1700), he undertook the educational journey from 1662 to 1665.
Together with his younger brothers Johann Norbert (1644-1678) and Ignaz Karl (about 1646-1700), he undertook the educational journey from 1662 to 1665. It is described in detail in a travelogue, written while traveling by Daniel Táborský, a servant, in Czech.
In the first half of his career, he resided in Vienna, and then only after 1676 did he concentrate on the Bohemian provincial offices; in 1699 he was awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece.
Among his Bohemian estates, he favoured Zelená Hora and Horažďovice on the border of central, western and southern Bohemia.
He had built the high-baroque suburban villa in Prague-Troja designed by Jean Baptist Mathey, a palace in Prague-Hradčany (1698–1708), co-sponsored a chapel on the pilgrimage route from Prague to Stará Boleslav, and commissioned the sculpture of St Francis with the Angels on Charles Bridge (1708).
Hojda 2022