Kammala wannan jumla: A shekara ta 1663, sun shiga rundunar sojojin Venetian kuma sun yi yaƙi a cikin Yakin Turkiyya. Bayan shekara guda, ya yi yaƙi a
Yaƙin St. Gotthard. A cikin 1665, ya ajiye makamansa, ya shiga Benedictine Rheinau Abbey kuma ya karɓi ƙananan umarni. A shekara ta 1666, an nada shi coadjutor na sarkin bishop na Fulda. A cikin 1668, ya kuma zama coadjutor na Kempten Abbey. A cikin 1671, ya zama Yarima-Bishop a Fulda kuma coadjutor a cikin Abbey na Michaelsberg a Siegburg.