Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Von Metternich

Does everyone let the world affect their beliefs and values? Do rulers of our world base their laws and rules on these? When a ruler actually rules a land, does this leader actually rule or does society actually rule? A man of whom resents revolutions, liberalism and even nationalism will take this challenge against society and on May 15, 1773 in Koblenz, Germany a Prince by the name of Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich was born. This prince would be a man who would become one of the "finest Ambassadors", but to others he wasn't such a great Prince; just one that wanted to stop the progress, to the countries of Saxony (1801), Prussia (1803), and to the Napoleonic France (1806) (Joseph H. Held) and later a quite fine Minister of Foreign affairs to the Hapsburg state. He would also become one of the most dominant figures in European politics between 1814 and 1848.

As Metternich proceeded to grow older, he attended Strasbourg University and Mainz University. After graduating from these Universities, little did Metternich know that when he and his family were fleeing to Vienna that his life would change and his life course had taken a sudden turn. After moving to the town of Vienna, in 1794 to escape the attacks from the revolutionary French armies, he met and later married his wife Countess Eleanor Kaunitz. (Joseph H. Held) Kaunitz's family was a quite prominent family during this time at the Austrian court.