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His Most Serene Highness The Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein
Portrait by Thomas Lawrence, 1815
Chancellor of the Austrian Empire
In office 25 May 1821 – 13 March 1848
Monarch	Francis I Ferdinand I
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Franz Anton as Minister-President
Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire
In office 8 October 1809 – 13 March 1848
Monarch	Francis I Ferdinand I
Preceded by	Count Warthausen
Succeeded by	Count Charles-Louis de Ficquelmont
Personal details
Born	15 May 1773 ( 1773-05-15 ) Koblenz, Electorate of Trier, Holy Roman Empire
Died	11 June 1859 ( 1859-06-12 ) (aged 86) Vienna, Austrian Empire
Nationality	German Austrian
Spouses	Princess Eleonore von Kaunitz ​ ​ ( m. 1795; died 1825) ​ Baroness Antoinette Leykam ​ ​ ( m. 1827; died 1829) ​ Countess Melanie Zichy-Ferraris ​ ​ ( m. 1831; died 1854) ​
Children	See list
Parents	Franz Georg Karl, Count of Metternich-Winneburg Countess Beatrix von Kageneck
Education	University of Strasbourg, University of Mainz
Known for	The Congress of Vienna, Minister of State, Conservatism, Concert of Europe
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Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein^{[nb 1]} (15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859),^[1] known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternich, was a conservative Austrian statesman and diplomat who was at the center of the European balance of power known as the Concert of Europe for three decades as the Austrian Empire's foreign minister from 1809 and Chancellor from 1821 until the liberal Revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation.