Noble Deaths Announcements 2015

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Count Carl Anton von Goëß-Saurau died on 6 December 2015, aged 94.

He was born on 23 June 1921, the fifth child of Count Johann Zeno von Goëß and of his wife, née Countess Emma Welser von Welserheimb.
He married in 1948 to Baroness Maria Mayr von Melnhof (1921-1996), the youngest daughter of Baron Franz Mayr von Melnhof and of his wife, née Princess Marie zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst. They became parents of seven children.
His eldest son, Franz, predeceased his parents in 1993; his daughter Cecilia is the wife of Fürst Wittekind zu Waldeck und Pyrmont.

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Baroness Maria Ursula von Ow, née Countess Henckel von Donnsersmarck, died on 2 December 2015, aged 77.

She was born on 2 April 1938, as the sixth of the eight children of Count Georg Henckel von Donnersmarck and of his wife, née Countess Marie Sophie von Waldburg zu Wolfegg und Waldsee.
She was married since 1965 to Baron Johannes von Ow, with whom she had three children.
She is survived by her husband, her children Katharina, Benedicta and Philipp, as well as her siblings Eleonore, Petrus, Hedwig, Karla and Elisabeth and their families.

Henckel von Donnersmarck
Maria Ursula, Gräfin Henckel von Donnersmarck, * 1938 | Geneall.net

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Marie-Sophie Freifrau von Doblhoff-Dier, nee Princess von Auersperg, died at Baden bei Wien on 12 August 2015.

She was born on 15 November 1922, daughter of Prince Eduard von Auersperg (1893-1948) & his wife Sophie, nee Countess von Clam und Gallas (1900-1980). In 1951 she married Hubert Richard Johann Freiherr von Doblhoff, by adoption Freiherr von Doblhoff-Dier (1926-) They had five children.

Source: Royal News of 2015, Section II

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The Dowager Duchess de Mortemart, née Anne Mouchet de Battefort de Laubespin, died at Mondouzil on 28 December 2015, aged 78.

She was born at Boulogne-Billancourt on 28 July 1937. She married in 1959 to François de Rochechouard, 15th Duke de Mortemart (1930-1992); they became parents of three daughters (Isabelle, Diane and Sylvie) and of one son, Charles, the current Duke de Mortemart.
She is survived by her children and their families.

Rochechouart de Mortemart

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Princess Stefanie of Windisch-Graetz, formerly Mrs. Josef Christoforetti died sometime last year.

She was born in Vienna on 21 January 1933 as a daughter of Prince Ernst of Windisch-Graetz (1905-1952) & his first wife Ellen Skinner (1906-1982); she had an older brother Otto (1928-2013).
When she was 5 her parents divorced and two years later their marriage was annulled.
When she was 14 her father married Eva Freiin von Isbary (b.1921); three and a half months later her half-sister Eleonore was born, followed by another one, Elisabeth in 1951.
She married in Mariazell, Lower Austria on 14 May 1956 Josef Christoforetti (b.1919) but their marriage lasted only eight years. They had four children: Angelina (b.1956), Alexander (b.1958-?), Claudia (b.1960) & Nikolaus (b.1962) and three grandchildren: Marie-Elisabeth (b.1992) & Julien (b.1993) Pezet [children of Claudia & her husband Philippe Pezet (b.1960)] & Timon Christoforetti (b.1998) [son of Nikolaus & his wife Klaudia, nee Ecker (b.1964)].

Sources: Descendants of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
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According to her death announcement (from the website of the funeral home) Stephanie Christoforetti died on 11 December 2015.

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Thanks!
Birgitta Kovacz must be her sister from mother's side.

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Count Nikolaus de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt died this year.

He was born in 1929 as the oldest of five children of Countess Ladislaja Maria Johanna Franziska von Meran (1899-1997) & her husband, Count Eberhard de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt (1896-1970)
He married in 1953 Alice Hoffelner (b.1930) by whom he had four children: Elisabeth (b.1954), Philipp Karl (b.1955), Eberhard (1957-1990) & Franz (b.1961) as well as eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He is survived also by his four siblings and their families.

Source: Descendants of Archduke Johann of Austria

Count Carl Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau died on 4 August.

He was born in Munich on 20 October 1954 as the youngest of seven children of Count Ferdinand von Wchinitz und Tettau (1907-1969) & his wife, Countess Hedwig von Ledebur-Wicheln (1910-2002)
On 23 May 1991 he became a father of Paul Stephan Marie, whose mother was Freiin Elisabeth Zobel von Giebelstadt zu Darstadt (b.1959); young parents formalized their union in Darstadt on 7 September.
Of his many siblings only Johannes predeceased him in 2004, aged 67.
Still alive are: Ferdinand (b.1934), Eleonore (b.1936), Marie (b.1940), Aglae (b.1941) & Elisabeth (b.1944).

Sources: Kinsky
https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...al-information

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Prince Paul Obolensky died on 13 December last year.

He was born in Belicse, Yugoslavia on 29 March 1924 as younger of two childrenof Prince Wassili Obolensky (1873-1952) & his second wife, Marina Pavlovna Thillot (1899-1955); he had one sister Maria (1921-2014)
He married in Cognac on 16 June 1945 Jacqueline Bonnet (b.1923) by whom he had an only daughter Ariane (b.1950).

Source: Obolensky