HOHENEMS, JAKOB HANNIBAL. – Military commander, born on 13 May 1530 in Hohenems, died there on 26 December 1587. He received his baptism of fire in 1547, the year in which he took part in the war against the Schmalkaldic League.
He subsequently served in Italy (the war against Ottavio Farnese, duke of Parma and Piacenza, 1551; the war waged by Duke Cosimo of Tuscany against the Republic of Siena, 1553–55) and in France. In 1565 he was appointed by Pius IV commander general of the troops of the Papal States and governor of Spoleto and Cerveteri, an office he retained under Pius V. BIBLICA.: G. V. Wyss, H., in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, XIII, pp. 509–11, with bibliography. Silvio Furlani