3 Kreuzers - Franz von Dietrichstein

Franz von Dietrichstein received the bishopric of Olomouc in 1599 through direct papal appointment — a calculated move by Clement VIII to shore up Catholic authority in Moravia at a moment when Protestant nobles held a firm grip on the region's diet. His subsequent role in the aftermath of the Battle of White Mountain (1620) made him the most powerful ecclesiastical figure in Moravia, but this kreuzer predates that consolidation, struck while the confessional tensions that would ignite the Thirty Years' War were still building toward rupture.