MAXIMILIANO S.R.I. COMITI DE BISSINGEN EQVITI ORDINIS HIEROSOLYMITANI IN MILITIA CÆSARIS PROCENTVRIONI OPTIMÆ SPEI ADOLESCENTI III ID. MAIJ ANN. MDCCCIII. ÆT. SUÆ XXIII VITA FVNCTO FERDINANDVS PATER IMP. CÆS. FRANCISCI II AVG. AB INTIMIS CONSILIIS TITVLVM AMORIS TESTEM FILIO SVAVISSIMO MOERENS POSVIT
Count Ferdinand von Bissingen (1749–1831) came to Venice as Governor for Austria in 1802 and remained there until 1805. In leaving, he left his second wife Maria von Thurn-Valsassina, who in March of the following year gave birth to a son who was given the name of Kajetan:it is he who in 1855 came as Imperial Lieutenant in Venice, where he remained until 1860. Fra' Massimiliano, Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, was the son of Maria Anna Amalia von Stotzingen, first wife of Count Ferdinand, and died in Venice in 1803 at just twenty-three years old, when he was still a "young man of beautiful hopes" as stated on the plaque that is preserved in the Grand Priory Palace.