Deaths Announcements 2022

[RoJoSto]

Iris Caren Duchess of Wurttemberg, nee Metzger, died on 28.04.2022

She was born in Pforzheim 19 November 1963 as daughter of Herbert Metzger and his wife Gertrud Bregler.

She married in Esslingen on 29 December 2000 Christoph Duke of Wurttemberg (*30.11.1960), son of Ludwig Duke of Wurttemberg (*23.10.1930-+06.10.2019) and his first wife, married in Stuttgart on 16.12.1960, Adelheid Baroness of Bodmann (*03.08.1938), divorced 17.12.1970.
She had two children: Sylvie (*02.03.2001) and Louis (*18.03.2003)


Sources:
https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten....100332aca.html

[Benjamin]

Le Grand Seigneur: Duke Carl of Württemberg, Head of the Royal House (1936-2022)

[Dragon Queen]

He was born in Friedrichshafen on August 1st, 1936, as the second son of Duke Philipp Albrecht of Württemberg (1893-1975) and his second wife Duchess Rosa (1906-1983;née Archduchess of Austria-Tuscany).

He married Princess Diane d'Orléans (1940) [daughter of the Count and Countess of Paris] on July 18th, 1960. They had six children together: Duke Friedrich (1961-2018), Duchess Mathilde (1962), Duke Eberhard (1963), Duke Philipp (1964), Duke Michael (1965), and Duchess Fleur (1977).

He was the Head of the Royal House of Württemberg for forty-seven years.
He is succeeded by his grandson Duke Wilhelm (1994).

https://eurohistoryjournal.blogspot....e-carl-of.html

[Stefanie]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Le Grand Seigneur: Duke Carl of Württemberg, Head of the Royal House (1936-2022)

According to "Noblesse y Royautes" the funeral will be at Altshausen on July 2nd.

[Benjamin]

Princess Elmira of Saxony died on Tuesday, 14 June, in Munich. She was 91.

https://eurohistoryjournal.blogspot....1930-2022.html

[Biri]

Catherine Z. Spencer Churchill [nee Lancaster], who died from lung cancer, 10 June, 2022, aged 53, was the wife of Randolph Leonard Spencer Churchill [born 22 January, 1965], great-grandson of the Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA [1874-1965], and scion of the Dukes of Marlborough.

She was the former Catherine Lancaster, daughter of Antony Lancaster, of Kensington, and his wife Heather, and married at Westerham, Kent, 21 March, 1992, Randolph Leonard Spencer Churchill, elder son of Winston Spencer Churchill, MP [1940-2010], and his 1st wife the former Mary Caroline ['Minnie'] d'Erlanger.

Mrs Churchill is survived by her husband and son, John Winston [born 30 March, 2007], and three daughters, Serena Barbara [born 12 May, 1996], Zoë [born 29 Oct, 1998], and Alice [born 28 Apr, 2003].

Source: Peerage News

[Dragon Queen]

Father Florian, Prince Franz-Josef of Bavaria died on Wednesday, 22 June, in Ruaraka, Kenya. He was 64.

He was born at Schloß Leutstetten on August 21, 1957, as the eldest son of Prince Rasso of Bavaria (1926-2011) and Princess Theresa (1931, née Archduchess of Austria). He had four sisters and two brothers. He was the great-grandson of the last King of Bavaria, Ludwig III (1845-1921).

In 1982 he entered the Benedictine monastery of Sankt Ottilien, and since then lived and worked in Kenya.

Sources: Eurohistory and https://www.br.de/nachrichten/amp/ba...torben,T9gS7K0

[Iza Borowiec]

Prince Luiz of Orleans-Braganza died on Friday 15 July 2022 in Sao Paulo, Brazil at age of 84. He was de jure Emperor of Brazil and head of House of Orleans-Braganza.

He was born on 6 June 1938 in Mandelieu as the first child of Prince Pedro Henrique of Orleans-Braganza and Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria. He succeeded his father in July 1981 as head of the House.

He was single and without issue. He is survived by his siblings: 3 sisters (Eleonora, Maria Teresa, Maria Gabriela) and 6 brothers (Bertrand, Antonio, Pedro de Alcantara, Fernando Diniz, Francisco, Alberto), their spouses and numerous nephews and nieces. His heir is his younger brother Bertrand (whose heir is another brother Prince Antonio).

Source:https://twitter.com/SAIRDomBertrand/...Lh1ny0Wvlp8rqQ

[Ceely]

Prince Constantin of Schonburg-Hartenstein died on July 12, the day after his 89th birthday.

Constantin Rudolf was born on July 11, 1933 as the 12th and youngest child of Alexander, Prince of Schonburg-Hartenstein (1888-1956) and Princess Agathe of Auersperg (1888-1973). In 1958, he married Mathilde Harteinstein (*1929). They had six children: Alexandre (*1959), Michael (*1960), Karoline (*1962), Christine (*1965), Eduard (*1966), and Sophie (*1970).

In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by his 11 grandchildren, his sister Carolina (*1931), and numerous nieces and nephews.

Source: Descendants of Prince Karl of Auersperg
https://www.angelfire.com/realm/goth...schonburg.html

[Benjamin]

Duke Eugen Eberhard of Württemberg died on 26 July (today). He was ninety-one years-old.

https://eurohistoryjournal.blogspot....1930-2022.html

[Biri]

Baron Kyrill von Twickel died this year.

He was born in 1964 and in 1993 he married Countess Isabelle von Spee (b.1966) [eldest daughter of Princess Franziska of Liechtenstein (1930-2006) & her husband Count Rochus von Spee (1925-1981)] by whom he had a daughter Franziska (b.1995) and two sons Johannes (b.1997) & Severin (b.2001).

Source: Descendants of Prince Honorй III of Monaco

[RoJoSto]

Originally Posted by Biri

Baron Kyrill von Twickel died this year.

He was born in 1964 and in 1993 he married Countess Isabelle von Spee (b.1966) [eldest daughter of Princess Franziska of Liechtenstein (1930-2006) & her husband Count Rochus von Spee (1925-1981)] by whom he had a daughter Franziska (b.1995) and two sons Johannes (b.1997) & Severin (b.2001).

Source: Descendants of Prince Honorй III of Monaco

Baron Kyrill von Twickel died this year.

He died on 28 July 2022.


Source: https://m.sz-trauer.de/traueranzeige...ickel/60104735

[Ceely]

Prince Wolfgang of Bentheim and Steinfurt died in Baden bei Wien on Aug 3, at the age of 70.

He was born on Feb 17, 1952 in Arolsen to Prince Botho of Bentheim and Steinfurt (1924-2001) and Princess Alexandra of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1924-2009). He was married twice, first to Karin Moser (*1962) from 1994 to 2002, and secondly to Sissy Bohm (*1955) from 2003 to 2007. From his first marriage, he has one son, Benedikt (*1995).

He is also survived by his older brother, Georg-Viktor (*1950) and nephew Maximilian (*1986).

Source: Descendants of Duke Wilhelm of Nassau
https://www.angelfire.com/realm/goth.../bentheim.html

[Biri]

Lady Butter, CVO, who died in London, 29 July, 2022, aged 97, was a close friend from childhood of the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a close member of the Queen's inner circle of friends, and one of Her Majesty's last surviving contemporaries.

Descended from Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia, Lady Butter, who lived at Cluniemore, Pitlochry, was a Perthshire philanthropist and trustee of the Butter Charity Trust.

She was born 8 March, 1925, as Myra Alice Wernher, second daughter of Major-General Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Baronet, GCVO [1893-1973], of Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, and his wife the Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna [known as Zia] de Torby, CBE [1892-1977]. Her mother was a daughter of the Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich of Russia [1861-1929], and his morganatic wife Sophie Nikolaievna von Merenberg, Countess de Torby [1868-1927], a descendant of Pushkin. Zia de Torby was granted by Royal Warrant of King George V, 1 Sept, 1917, the style and precedence of the daughter of an Earl, and was thereafter known as Lady Zia Wernher.

Lady Zia Wernher's younger sister Nadejda 'Nada' [1896-1963], married 15 Nov, 1916, Prince George of Battenberg [1892-1938], who took the surname Mountbatten in 1917 and succeeded in 1921 as 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, and the Marchioness was thus an aunt of Prince Philip of Greece.

The young Prince Philip was close to the Wernher sisters, Georgina, later Mrs Harold Phillips, and Lady Kennard [1919-2011], and to Alice, and he spent much of his youth in their company. The friendship lasted until Prince Philip's demise last year.

Myra Wernher married 5 November, 1946, at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, Major David Henry Butter, MC [born 18 March, 1920], of the Scots Guards, scion of that landed gentry family, only surviving son of Colonel Charles Adrian James Butter, OBE [1876-1944], of Pitlochry, Perthshire, and his wife the former Agnes Marguerite Clark, who came from Newark, New Jersey.

Myra's bridal attendants included the nine year-old Princess Alexandra of Kent and the four-year old Prince Michael of Kent. Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI, attended the nuptials with the then Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, and Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent.

Her husband served as Lord Lieutenant of Perthshire, 1971-75, and for Kinross 1974-75, and was appointed KCVO. From 1946 until his death, 29 May, 2010, Sir David was chieftain of the Pitlochry Highland Games.

Lady Butter was appointed CVO in 1992.

Lady Butter is survived by a son, Charles [born 10 Apr 1960], and four daughters, Sandra [born 26 July, 1948, a goddaughter of HM The Queen], Marilyn [born 22 Mar 1950, Countess of Dalhousie, wife of the 17th Earl of Dalhousie, Lord Steward of the Household], Rohays [born 9 Apr 1952, wife of Prince Alexandra Galitzine], and Georgina [born 9 July, 1956, wife of Peter von Pejacvsevic].

Lady Butter was aunt to Alexandra Phillips, the late Duchess of Abercorn [1946-2018], wife of the 5th Duke of Abercorn [born 5 Jul 1934], and to Natalia Phillips [born 8 May, 1959], wife of the late 6th Duke of Westminster [1951-2016].

Sources: Peerage News
Descendants of Duke Wilhelm of Nassau

List of her descendants:
11.1.1.3.Myra Alice Wernher (1925-2022), m.1946 Sir David Butter (1920-2010)
11.1.1.3.1.Sandra Elizabeth Butter (*1948), m.1983 William David Morrison (*1940)
11.1.1.3.1.1.Charles Nicholas Morrison (*1985)
11.1.1.3.1.2.Sophie Natasha Morrison (*1987)
11.1.1.3.2.Marilyn Davina Butter (*1950), m.1973 James Hubert Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie (*1948)
11.1.1.3.2.1.Lady Lorna Ramsay (*1975), m.2005 Fergus Lefebvre (*1971)
11.1.1.3.2.1.1.Archie James Lefebvre (*2007)
11.1.1.3.2.1.2.Henry Paul Lefebvre (*2008)
11.1.1.3.2.1.3.Ned Fergus Lefebvre (*2011)
11.1.1.3.2.2.Lady Alice Ramsay (*1977), m.2017 Michael Dickinson
11.1.1.3.2.2.1.Stanley Dickinson (*2018)
11.1.1.3.2.3.Simon David Ramsay, Viscount Ramsay (*1981), m.2016 Kaitlin Marie Kubinsky (*1985)
11.1.1.3.2.3.1.Honourable William Fox Ramsay (*2017)
11.1.1.3.2.3.2.son
11.1.1.3.3.Rohays Georgina Butter (*1952), m.1988 Prince Alexander Galitzine (*1945)
11.1.1.3.3.1.Princess Sasha Galitzine (*1989)
11.1.1.3.3.2.Princess Nadezhda Galitzine (*1990)
11.1.1.3.4.Georgina Marguerite Butter (*1956), m.1982 Count Peter Pejбcsevich de Verцcze (*1954)
11.1.1.3.4.1.Count Alexander Pejбcsevich de Verцcze (*1988)
11.1.1.3.4.2.Countess Anastasia Pejбcsevich de Verцcze (*1992)
11.1.1.3.5.Charles Butter (*1960), m.2006 Agnieszka Szeluk
11.1.1.3.5.1.Julia Davina Butter (*2006)
11.1.1.3.5.2.Henry Butter (*2009)

[Benjamin]

Prince Wauthier de Ligne (b.1952) died on 15 August 2022. He was a son of Prince Antoine de Ligne and Princess Alix of Luxembourg. Wauthier’s first cousin is Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg.

https://eurohistoryjournal.blogspot....1952-2022.html

[Marengo]

Posts about marriages in the De Ligne family have been moved to the thread about that family, which you can find here.

[JR76]

Trond Noren Isaksen writes on Facebook that Duchess Christina d’Otrante, the only non-royal duchess in Sweden, died on 9 August, aged 83.
"Born Countess Metta Christina Gunnel Beata Carolina von Rosen on 24 February 1939, she was the daughter of Count Eugène von Rosen, who was Master of Ceremonies at the court of King Gustaf V, and his second wife, Metta Claësdotter Breitholtz. Her half-sister Elsa, who was 35 years her senior, was by then already married to Prince Carl Bernadotte, the uncle of the current King of Norway. «I was born as Prince Carl’s sister-in-law», she once remarked to me. With her younger sister Carolina, who married Count Gérard de Rocquette-Buisson, she inherited Örbyhus Castle, best known as the place where King Erik XIV died in captivity, allegedly from poisoned pea soup. (Christina d’Otrante regularly served pea soup at Örbyhus).

In 1967, Christina married Duke Gustaf d’Otrante, who was 27 years her senior and the only non-royal duke in Sweden. The title, which is not incorporated into the Swedish nobility, is in fact Napoleonic and derives from the notorious Joseph Fouché, French Minister of Police, who was created Duke of Otranto (in southern Italy) by Emperor Napoléon I. After the fall of Napoléon, two of his sons settled in Sweden, where the former Napoleonic Marshal Bernadotte by then reigned as King Carl XIV Johan. Several members of the family came to serve at the Swedish court. Gustaf d’Otrante’s sister, Margareta, married Prince (Fürst) Gustav Albrecht of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and became the mother-in-law of Princess Benedikte of Denmark.

Christina and Gustaf d’Otrante had three daughters, Marguerite, Pauline and Joséphine, but the title could only be inherited by a man (and Gustaf’s brother Louis was also the father of daughters only). However, when she was 47 and her husband 73, Christina d’Otrante gave birth to a son, Charles-Louis, who at the age of nine succeeded to his father’s dukedom in 1995.

Christina d’Otrante lived at Elghammar Manor at Björnlunda in Södermanland, a beautiful neoclassical manor that was built for one of her husband’s ancestors, Field Marshal Curt von Stedingk, by Catherine the Great’s court architect, Giacomo Quarenghi, whom Stedingk had encountered while serving as Sweden’s ambassador to Russia. The walls were hung with state portraits of Swedish, French and Russian rulers presented to various members of the family over the years.

Christina d’Otrante took a great interest in history and cultural issues and was always welcoming to historians, curators and other researchers and always ready to help by lending artefacts to exhibitions and sharing her heritage with the world.

Her funeral will take place at Björnlunda Church on 2 September."

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...00042750248545

[Hans-Rickard]

David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home KT, CVO, CBE has passed away, aged 78.

He was the son of former british Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.

https://mobile.twitter.com/LyonCourt...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[Ceely]

Count Franz-Josef of Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems died on August 30 or 31 at the age of 95.

Franz Josef Vitus Xaver Georg Wunibald was born on March 7, 1927 in Chur. He was the fourth child of Count Georg of Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems (1878-1955) and Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1892-1930). He was married to Countess Priscilla of Schonborn-Wiesentheid (1934-2019) from 1956 until her death. They had seven children: Maria Rosario (*1957), Carolina (*1958), Elisabeth (1960-1966), Franz-Clemens (*1962), Stephan (*1963), Philippa (*1968), and Maximilian (*1976).

In addition to his six living children, he is survived by 16 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, his half-siblings Sophie (*1932) and Josef (*1934), and numerous other relatives.

Source: https://www.angelfire.com/realm/goth.../waldburg.html
Descendants of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria

[Biri]

Prince Clemens von Altenburg died this year.

He was born in Vienna on 8 February 1932 as second of nine children and eldest son of Archduke Clemens Salvator of Austria, who became Prince Clemens Salvator von Altenburg in 1949 (1904-1974) & his wife Countess Elisabeth Rességuier de Miremont (1906-2000).
He married civilly in St. Gilgen on 16 October and religiously in Unterrach on 17 October 1964 Laurence Costa de Saint-Genix de Beauregard (b.1942); they had a son Philipp (b.1968) and a daughter Henriette (b.1972) and six grandchildren: Camilla (2001), Agnés (b.2003), Karl-Ludwig (b.2004), Marie (2006-2009) & twins Tassilo and Claire (b.2011) [children of Henriette & her husband Count Guillaume du Bessey de Contenson (b.1969)]

Sources: https://www.angelfire.com/realm/goth...a/tuscany.html
Descendants of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria

Countess Nikolaus de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt, nee Alice Hoffelner died this year.

She was born in 1930 and in 1953 married Count Nikolaus de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt (1930-2016) [firstborn son of Countess Ladislaja Maria Johanna Franziska von Meran (1899-1997) & her husband Count Eberhard de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt (1896-1970)].
They had four children: Elisabeth (b.1954), Philipp Karl (b.1955), Eberhard (1957-1990) & Franz (b.1961).
Apart from their son, they also lost one of their grandsons Ernst-Arthur von Magnus [son of Elisabeth & her first husband Ernst-Jürgen von Magnus (b.1943)] who died in 2016 aged 21.
Apart from her three living children and seven living grandchildren she left also four great-grandchildren.

Source: http://heinbruins.nl/Meran.html

Baron Jörg von Saalfeld died this year.

He was born in Munich on 17 January 1937 as the eldest of four children of Baron Enzio von Saalfeld (1908-killed in action over England 1941) {himself youngest of six children of Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1859-1941) & his wife Katharina Jensen, created Baroness von Saalfeld in 1892 (1874-1945)} & his wife Rut, nee Viererbe (1910-1974).
He married firstly in San José (Costa Rica) on 13 August 1966 Heidi Schmidt Steinworth (b.1944) but they divorced in 1973; in 1976 he married secondly Hilda Steinvorth Steffen (b.1953). Both these marriages were childless.
His younger twin brother Jens died in 2001; he was married to Kathryn Kostka (b.1950), had three children and two grandchildren.
His younger sister Jay (b.1938) is married to Hans Hermann Schmidt Steinworth (b.1942), has one son and one grandson.
His youngest brother Jan (b.1941) is married to Clara Bansbach (b.1942), has three children and five grandchildren.

Sources: https://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/saxony.html
http://heinbruins.nl/Leiningen.html

Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst died in Waldhof on 21 January last year - and his widow, Adelheid, nee Freiin von Ow, followed him in Heilbronn on 14 February this year.

Freiin Adelheid von Ow was born in Schönau on 11 December 1937.
She and Prince Hubertus [b.1935 as second of five children and younger son of Friedrich Karl, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1908-1982) & his wife, Princess Mechtilde von Urach (1912-2001)]
married civilly in Piesing, Upper Bavaria on 18 July and religiously in Haiming on 21 June 1959 and had a daughter Antonia (b.1961) and three sons: Felix (b.1963; current Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, because his paternal uncle Friedrich Karl died childless in 2017), Franz (b.1965) & Maximilian (b.1967), sixteen grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Sources: http://heinbruins.nl/Monaco.html
https://www.angelfire.com/realm/goth...hohenlohe.html

Sonia de Morales y de Borbón died this year.

She was born in 1969 as a third child and daughter of Princess Inés of Bourbon (b.1940) & her late former husband Luis de Morales y Aguado (1933-2000).
In 1989, at the age of 20, she gave birth to her firstborn son Alfonso Romero-Jiménez y de Morales, whose father is Santiago Romero-Jiménez y Ressendi.
In 2000 she married Alejandro García-Atance y Leurquén (b.1974) by whom she had two more children: Iñigo (b.2000) & Sofía (b.2001) García-Atance y de Morales.

Source: http://heinbruins.nl/Alfonso.html

Countess Karin of Solms-Rüdelheim and Assenheim, nee Frowein died in Murnau on 6 February.

She was born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld on 19 April 1936 as the elder of two children of Countess Louise-Marie von Rhoden (1903-1989) & her husband Ernst Günther Frowein (1899-1971).
She married there civilly on 22 May and religiously on 25 May 1965 Count Jost Heinrich of Solms-Rüdelheim and Assenheim (1929-2016) [eldest of three children and elder son of Count Joachim Ernst of Solms-Rüdelheim and Assenheim (1896-1978) & his wife Klara, nee Countess von Bullion (1901-1996).
They didn't have children.
Her only brother Jan-Ernst Frowein was two years younger than her and died in 2010; he was married to Marie-Thérèse von Malaisé (b.1945), had four children and four grandchildren.

Sources: http://heinbruins.nl/Lippe.html
https://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/solms.html

Baron Gebhard von Heyl zu Herrnsheim died this year.

He was born in 1930 and in 1956 married Baroness Helene von Gemmingen-Hornberg (b.1934) [eldest of six children of Countess Marie-Wilhelmine von Drechsel auf Deufstetten (1908-1996) & her husband Baron Hans Weiprecht von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1905-1945).
They had four children: Angelika (b.1957), Bernhard (b.1958), Donata (b.1962) & Margarete (b.1968), seven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

Source: http://heinbruins.nl/Bavaria.html