Noble Deaths Announcements 2013

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The Hon. James Michael Edward Bruce, CBE, passed away on 22 April 2013, aged 85.

He was born on 26 August 1927, as the fourth child and second son of the 10th Earl of Elgin and 14th Earl of Kincardine and of his wife, née the Hon. Katherine Elizabeth Cochrane.
He was married three times: firstly on 29 July 1950 to the Hon. Jean Coats (daughter of the 2nd Baron Glentanar) until they divorced in 1974; secondly in 1975 to Morven-Anne Macdonald until her death in 1994; thirdly in 2000 he married to Mrs Mary Elizabeth Hamilton. He became father of four children by his first wife (one of whom predeceased his parents in 1979) and of four more children by his second wife.
He is survived by his wife Mary Elizabeth and his children Janet, John, Michael, Alexander, Simon, Katherine and Emma.

Hon. James BRUCE Obituary: View Hon. BRUCE's Obituary by The Times
Peerage News: Hon James Michael Edward Bruce, CBE 1927-2013
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Diana Keppel, Dowager Countess of Albemarle, DBE, passed away on 6 May 2013, aged 103.

She was born as Diana Grove on 6 August 1909; she married as his second wife in 1931 to the then Viscount Bury, Walter Keppel (1882-1979), who was to become in 1942 the 9th Earl of Albemarle. They had one daughter together - his sixth child - Lady Anne-Louise (wife of Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th Baronet).
She is survived by her daughter, her son-in-law and by many grandchildren with their families.

Peerage News: Diana Cicely Countess of Albemarle, DBE 1909-2013
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Mogens Matthias Wassard died on 13 January.

He was born on 12 October 1928; in 1957 he married Countess Marcelita von Moltke (b.1931) descendant of Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. They had two children: Hans (b.1960) and Alice (b.1970), as well as three grandchildren: Esther Wassard (b.1996, daughter of Hans and Dorte Storm) and Axel (b.2006) & Anna (b.2009) Wassard-Matthiesen (children of Alice).

Source: Bonaparte descendants

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Count Peter Wolff Metternich zur Gracht died on 26 May.

He was born at Göttingen on 5 Mar 1929 as a son of Count Wolfgang Wolff Metternich zur Gracht (1894-1967) and & his wife Adelheid, nee von Adelebsen (1898-1987). On 18 July 1955 he married civilly and on 27 July religiously in Alfter Countess Marie Christine zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim und Dyck (1932-2010). He is survived by their four children and their families.

Source: Royal News of 2013, Section II


Princess Renée de la Tour d´Auvergne Lauraguais died on 28 May.

She was born at Buenos Aires on 29 August 1919, daughter of Jorge Oster & his wife Maria Isabel Elsa, née Haim. In 1938 she married Charles Louis Melchior, Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1911-1993). She is survived by their children and their families.

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/news/2013_3.htm

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Baron Jean d'Anethan died on 25 April four months before his 90th birthday.

He is survived by his wife, children and grandchildren; his oldest son, Francois, predeceased him in 2011.

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Count Charles-Antoine de Liedekerke died on 5 June, four and a half months before his 90th birthday.

He is survived by his wife, children and grandchildren.

http://www.carnetmondain.be/

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Countess Christian de Quatrebarbes passed away on 21 June 2013, aged 100.

She was born on 10 July 1912 as Gersende de Sabran-Pontevès, the younger daughter of Amic de Sabran-Pontevès, 5th Duke of Sabran, and of his wife, née Marguerite de Lamote-Baracé.
She married firstly in 1956 to Henry de Chansiergues d'Ornano, who predeceased her in 1967.
She later remarried in 1976 to Count Christian de Quatrebarbes; their marriage lasted until Count Christian's death in 2000.

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Prince Michał Ksawery Sapieha-Kodeński (great-uncle of the Duchess of Brabant) died on 11 July.

He was born in Bobrek, Poland, on 1 May 1930 as penultimate of six surviving children of Prince Adam Zygmunt Sapieha-Kodeński (1982-1970) & his wife Teresa, nee Countess Sobańska (1891-1975).

Note: Paul Theroff's "An Online Gotha" site says that they had eight children in total (Gabriela died in 1924 aged two and Adam was born and died ( or was stillborn) on 23 November 1923, but www. sejm-wielki.pl doesn't mention them at all. It gives also the year of the birth of Stanisław Artur as 1937, making him their youngest child, whereas The Online Gotha says that he was born in 1927, being their sixth child.

On 17 April 1952 he married in Nya-Mitaba, Belgian Congo, Myriam de Decker de Brandeken (1928-1997) by whom he had two sons: Aleksander Leon Józef (b.1953) & Stefan Adam.

He is survived by them, their wives, five grandchildren, at least two great-grandchildren and his two sisters: Jadwiga Teresa Maria (b.1924) and Maria Ludwika (b.1931).

In 1982 he experienced a big tragedy; his first grandson Ladislas (son of Aleksander) died soon after his second birthday. As a young boy he also lost his sister Róża Maria, who was killed during the Warsaw Insurrection in 1944, aged 23. In 1964 he lost a baby niece, Anne de Hemptinne (daughter of Maria Ludwika & her husband Maximilien de Hemptinne). Later in life he lost two more siblings: Stanisław Artur, who died in 1956 aged 19 or 29, and 78 year-old sister Zofia, who was killed in a car crash together with her granddaughter Marie-Alix, aged 23, in 1997.

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His death was announced on carnetmondain.be.
He is also survived by his second wife, née Ghislaine van Cutsem, according to the announcement (though this second marriage isn't mentioned in Theroff's genealogy).
Le Site du Carnet Mondain : Carnet du jour

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The Most Hon. George Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey, passed away on 13 July 2013, aged 90.

He was born on 8 October 1922, the only son of the 6th Marquess and Marchioness of Anglesey. He succeeded as the 7th Marquess at the death of his father in 1947.
He was married since 1948 to Shirley Morgan, by whom he had three daughters and two sons.
Their eldest son, Charles, succeeds him as the 8th Marquess of Anglesey.

The 7th Marquis of Anglesey - Telegraph

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Marquis Jean-Louis de Ganay passed away on 13 April 2013, aged 91.

He was born on 6 February 1922, son of Marquis Hubert de Ganay and of his wife, née Maria Bemberg.
He was married since 1946 to Philippine de Noailles, daughter of the 7th Duke of Mouchy and 7th Prince and Duke of Poix and of his wife, née Marie de La Rochefoucauld. Jean-Louis and Philippine became parents of four daughters, one of whom predeceased her parents.

Jean-Louis de Ganay - Telegraph
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extracts from the Telegraph obituary

[Marquis] Jean-Louis de Ganay, who has died aged 91, was an aristocratic agent of the Special Operations Executive in France before and after D-Day, narrowly avoiding arrest to blow up a railway line and a canal lock transporting vital supplies to German forces.

He returned to Paris in March 1946, and married shortly afterwards, dedicating the rest of his life to restoring and modernising the family estates and the chateau at Courances. He inherited the chateau on the death of his father in 1974 and, with his brothers, farmed and revived the hunting. During his time there he hosted several members of the British Royal Family, including Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Prince Charles.

Active in local politics, Jean-Louis de Ganay was mayor of Courances for more than 50 years. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre for his work with SOE. .

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Cornelia Kirpicsenko-Meran née Countess von Meran died in Salzburg, Austria, on 27 June 2013 after a long illness.

She was born on 14 November 1963 as a daughter of Count Adolf von Meran (1919-2010) & his wife, Ada Maria Kindermann (1922-2012). On 31 January 1999 she married Walter Kirpicsenko (b.1957) by whom she had three children; she is also survived by her only brother Johannes (b.1961) and sister-in-law with their children.

Dagmar Castenskiold died on 12 July 2013, aged 81.

She was born on 11 September 1931 as youngest child of Jørgen Castenskiold (of Danish nobility; 1893-1978) & his wife Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1890-1961). Among her first cousins were King Frederik IX of Denmark, King Olav V of Norway and Queen Astrid of the Belgians. She married twice; her first husband Paul Bitsch died in a car accident, as did one of the three sons from this marriage years later. Her second husband Ole Larsen survives her, as well as her elder brother Christian (b.1926), who is the last surviving grandchild of King Frederik VIII of Denmark.

Source for both: These Royal Recently Passed Away | NettyRoyal

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Count Andreas von Bismarck-Schönhausen passed away in Salzburg on 20 July 2013, aged 72.

Born in Berlin on 14 February 1941, he was the youngest child and only son of Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen and of his wife, née Countess Melanie Hoyos.
He has been married firstly from 1965 to 1974 to Countess Olivia Larisch von Moennich, by whom he had two daughters, Christina and Tatjana. He later remarried in 1975 to Charlotte Kinberg, by whom he had a third daughter, Stephanie.
He is survived by his wife Charlotte, his three daughters and their families.

Leute: Stephanie zu Guttenberg trauert um ihren Vater - N24.de

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Oda Piltz, nee Hug died this year.

She was born in 1937 as fifth of eleven children of Princess Marie Therese of Prussia (1911-2005) & her husband Rudolf Hug (1885-1972). In 1963 she married Hans-Hermann Piltz (1930-2009) by whom she had two daughters: Luise-Dorothea (b.1965) & Angela-Beatrice (b.1968) and twin sons: Hellmut-Albrecht & Hans-Alexander (b.1969). She also had two grandchildren (children of Luise-Dorothea & her husband Eckhard Kohler).
Apart from her children and grandchildren she is survived by her siblings: Friedrich-Wilhelm (b.1932), Charlotte (b.1935), Rudolf-Sigismund (b.1939), Siegilde (b.1941), Luitgard-Luise (b.1943), Wolfdietrich (b.1945), Angela (b.1951) & Rudolf-Philipp (b.1957) and their families; her oldest brother Alois (twin of Friedrich-Wilhelm) died as a baby in 1932, and other one, Albrecht died in 2000 aged 67.
In 1973 she lost also her four-year-old nephew, Wolf-Thilo Beckenbauer (son of Luitgard-Luise & her husband Klaus Beckenbauer).

Source: Descendants of King Willem I of the Netherlands


Fabio, Baron Galli Zugaro died this year.

He was born in 1928 as second of four sons of Donna Paola Massimo (1900-1983) {herself daughter of Princess Beatriz of Bourbon (1874-1961) & her husband, Don Fabrizio Massimo, Prince di Roviano (1968-1944} & her husband Enzo, Baron Galli Zugaro (1898-1986).
In 1955 he married Donna Anna Maria Sanfelice (1933-2003) by whom he had five children: Paola (b.1965), Emilio (b.1960), Fabrizio (b.1963), Fabiola (b.1965) & Umberto (b.1969); apart from them he is also survived by four grandsons and four granddaughters, as well as his brothers Carlo (b.1934) & Umberto (b.1940) with their families; his older brother Paolo predeceased him in 1997, aged 72.

Source: Descendants of Duke Carlo III of Parma

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Count Antoine de Dreux-Breze died this year.

He was born in 1928. In 1950 he married Gilonne d'Harcourt (b.1927), daughter of Princess Isabelle of France (1900-1983) & her first husband, Count Bruno d'Harcourt (1899-1934) by whom he had five daughters, but they both suffered a lot of pain as parents, giving that they buried three of them: Anne in 1953 (aged 1), Anne-Pierre in 1958 (a baby) and Isabelle in 1966 (aged two).
Apart from his wife, he is survived by two daughters Laure (b.1951) and Diane (b.1954), four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Source: Descendants of King Louis Philippe I of the French


Countess Marie Brandolini d'Adda, nee Angliviel de la Baumelle, died this year.

She was born in 1963. In 1987 she married Count Brandino Brandolini d'Adda dei Conti di Valmareno (b.1957).
Apart from her husband, she bereaved her three sons: Guido (b.1990), Marcantonio (b.1991) and Gioacchino (b.2000).

Source: Descendants of Giovanni Agnelli and Clara Boselli

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Victoria Eugenia Fernandez de Cordoba y Fernandez de Henestrosa, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli and Grande of Spain, Duchess of Alcala de los Gazules, died in her residence, Casa de Pilatos, in Sevilla on 18 August.

She was born on 16 April 1917 in Madrid as oldest of three daughters of Luis Fernandez de Cordoba, 17th Duke of Medinaceli (1880-1956) & older of two by his first wife, Ana Fernandez de Henestrosa y Gayoso de los Cobos (1879-1939).
She married in Sevilla on 12 January 1938 Rafael de Medina y Villalonga (1905-1992) by whom she had four children: Ana, Countess of Ofalia, Marchioness of Navahermosa (1940-2012), Luis, Marquess of Cogolludo, Duke of Santiesteban del Puerto, Marquess of Solera (1941-2011), Rafael, Duke of Feria, Marquess of Villalba (1942-2001) & Ignacio, Duke of Segorbe, Count of Moriana del Rio, Count of Ampurias, Count of Rivadavia, Count of Ricla (b.1947).
Apart from her only surviving son she left nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren as well as three nieces and four nephews with their families.
Her sister Maria de la Paz, Duchess of Lerma predeceased her in 1998 (aged 79); also her half-sister Casilda, Duchess of Cardona died the same year (aged 57).

Source: Fallece a los 96 años la duquesa de Medinaceli, once veces Grande de España - Noticias de Noticias
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House of Hohenlohe - Part I
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Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

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Contessa Alice Formenti di Tolmino e Biglia died in Gorizia, Italy, on August 29.

Born Freiin Alice Taxis von Bordogna und Valnigra, June 6 1936, at Schladming, Austria, she was the first daughter and second child of Freiherr Lamoral Taxis von Bordogna und Valnigra (1900-1966) and Princess Teresa Cristina of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1902-1990). Her maternal great-grandmother was Princess Leopoldina of Brazil (1847-1871), second daughter and third child of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (1825-1891). She was the 29th on the Line of Succession to the Brazilian Throne.

She married, on January 7 1955, Conte Michele Formentini di Tolmino e Biglia (b.1929). They had two sons (Conti Leonardo and Filippo) and a daughter (Contessa Isabella).

Her Excelency is survived by her husband, children, grandchildren and siblings.

The funeral will be held on September 2, on the Church of San Floriano del Collio, Gorizia.

Source: Monarquia Já: Faleceu a Condessa Dona Alice Tasso de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança Formentini

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Don Ferdinando Gaetani dell'Aquila d'Aragona, 9th Prince of Piedimonte, 14th Duke of Laurenzana, born at Florence on 26 July 1924, died at Rome on 2 September, survived by his wife, née Daniella dei Conti Dainelli da Bagnano Masetti , and their children, Bonifacio, Isabella and Maria Ghilla.

Source: Royal News of 2013, Section III

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Originally Posted by Biri

Fabio, Baron Galli Zugaro died this year.

He was born in 1928 as second of four sons of Donna Paola Massimo (1900-1983) {herself daughter of Princess Beatriz of Bourbon (1874-1961) & her husband, Don Fabrizio Massimo, Prince di Roviano (1968-1944} & her husband Enzo, Baron Galli Zugaro (1898-1986).
In 1955 he married Donna Anna Maria Sanfelice (1933-2003) by whom he had five children: Paola (b.1965), Emilio (b.1960), Fabrizio (b.1963), Fabiola (b.1965) & Umberto (b.1969); apart from them he is also survived by four grandsons and four granddaughters, as well as his brothers Carlo (b.1934) & Umberto (b.1940) with their families; his older brother Paolo predeceased him in 1997, aged 72.

Source: Descendants of Duke Carlo III of Parma

He died on 14 May 2013.

GeneAll.net - Fabio Galli Zugaro

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Originally Posted by Biri

Count Antoine de Dreux-Breze died this year.

He was born in 1928. In 1950 he married Gilonne d'Harcourt (b.1927), daughter of Princess Isabelle of France (1900-1983) & her first husband, Count Bruno d'Harcourt (1899-1934) by whom he had five daughters, but they both suffered a lot of pain as parents, giving that they buried three of them: Anne in 1953 (aged 1), Anne-Pierre in 1958 (a baby) and Isabelle in 1966 (aged two).
Apart from his wife, he is survived by two daughters Laure (b.1951) and Diane (b.1954), four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Source: Descendants of King Louis Philippe I of the French

He died on 17 May 2013.
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Originally Posted by Biri

Countess Marie Brandolini d'Adda, nee Angliviel de la Baumelle, died this year.

She was born in 1963. In 1987 she married Count Brandino Brandolini d'Adda dei Conti di Valmareno (b.1957).
Apart from her husband, she bereaved her three sons: Guido (b.1990), Marcantonio (b.1991) and Gioacchino (b.2000).

Source: Descendants of Giovanni Agnelli and Clara Boselli

She passed away on 30 May 2013 after a long illness.
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