Noble Deaths Announcements 2016

[Marc23]

Originally Posted by Biri

Erica Kunigl, Countess of Ehrenburg (1935-1981) & her husband (and probably cousin) Leopold Kunigl, Count of Ehrenburg (1917-1999)

Second cousins once removed.

[Biri]

Caroline-Mathilde von Steenderen, nee Countess of Solms-Baruth died on 21 January.

She was born in Klitschdorf on 15 April 1929 as the youngest of five children of Count Friedrich of Solms-Baruth (1886-1951) & his wife Adelheid, nee Princess of Schleswig-Holstein (1889-1964).
She married in Stellenbosch on 12 May 1963 Johann van Steenderen (1905-1978).

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

[Daniela]

When was his funeral?

[MAfan]

Xavier Coppetieres de Gibson, husband of Countess Françoise de Lannoy, died on 10 Janauary 2016 in Watermael-Boitsfort.

He was born on 11 October 1928 and was married since 1963 to Countess Françoise de Lannoy, the youngest child of the late Count and Countess Maurice de Lannoy.
They were parents of three children (Clothilde, Arnold and Baudouin).
He is survived by his wife, their children, children-in-law and eleven grandchildren.

inmemoriam.be - Xavier COPPIETERS de GIBSON († 10/1/2016) (FR)
Lannoy

[MAfan]

Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech, died on 1 February 2016, aged 61.

He was the second and only surviving son of the 5th Baron Harlech and of his first wife Sylvia.
He was married from 1986 until they divorced in 1998 to Amanda Grieve, by whom he had a son, Jasset (now the 7th Baron Harlech), and one daughter, the Hon. Tallulah Ormsby-Gore.

http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...ml#post1862670

[MAfan]

H.S.H. Fürst Alfons Wenzel Paar passed away a few days ago, aged 83, in Lugano, Switzerland.

He was born on 31 May 1932, the eldest child of Fürst Alfons Paar and of his wife, née Countess Sophia von Schlitz gennant von Görtz.
He has been married from 1969 until they divorced in 1982 to Marie Gabrielle von Mallinckrodt, by whom he had one daughter, Désiree, and one son Hubertus.

Valseriana News - SCOMPARSO IL PRINCIPE ALFONSO PAAR DELLA STORICA DINASTIA DI PARRE
Parre piange il principe Alfonso Paar Dinastia storica per la Val Seriana - Foto - Valle Seriana Parre
Paradiso, scomparso il principe Alfonso Paar - Ticinonews
Paar

[MAfan]

Countess Charlotte von Hohenau died on 12 February 2016 at the age of 98.

She was born in Berlin on 11 March 1917 and was the daughter of Count Wilhelm von Hohenau and of his first wife, née Countess Anna Henckel von Donnersmarck; she had also one brother, who died aged 21 in 1940, killed in action during WW2.
He grandfather, Count Friedrich von Hohenau, was the youngest child of Prince Albrecht of Prussia by his second and morganatic wife Rosalie von Rauch, who was created Countess von Hohenau in 1853.
Countess Charlotte was unmarried and didn't have issue. She was the last surviving member of the Hohenau family.

Charlotte Gräfin von Hohenau : Traueranzeige : Norddeutsche Rundschau
Prussia

[Duc_et_Pair]

Originally Posted by MAfan

Countess Charlotte von Hohenau died on 12 February 2016 at the age of 98.

She was born in Berlin on 11 March 1917 and was the daughter of Count Wilhelm von Hohenau and of his first wife, née Countess Anna Henckel von Donnersmarck; she had also one brother, who died aged 21 in 1940, killed in action during WW2.
He grandfather, Count Friedrich von Hohenau, was the youngest child of Prince Albrecht of Prussia by his second and morganatic wife Rosalie von Rauch, who was created Countess von Hohenau in 1853.
Countess Charlotte was unmarried and didn't have issue. She was the last surviving member of the Hohenau family.

Charlotte Gräfin von Hohenau : Traueranzeige : Norddeutsche Rundschau
Prussia

I liked it that her great love for her horses was mentioned in the death announcement.

[MAfan]

Countess Bernadetta Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, née Countess von Merveldt, passed away on 14 February 2016, aged 93.

She was born on 29 December 1922 and has been married from 1947 until he died in 2011 to Count Josef Kinsky von Whinitz un Tettau (1913-2011). They became parents of two sons, František and Antonín (who predeceased his mother in 2012).
She is survived by her son František, daughter-in-law Martina, grandchildren Kristian and Barbora (with her husband Alexej Jaroš and children Alexis, Maximilian and Sofia), as well as by her sister Countess Anna von Thun und Hohenstein.

Nový zámek Kostelec nad OrlicÃ* - ZemÅ™ela panÃ* Bernadetta Kinská
Kinsky

[MAfan]

The Rt. Hon. Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, passed away on 27 February 2016, aged 58.

http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...ml#post1867508

[MAfan]

Countess Huberta von Galen, née Baroness von Schorlemer, passed away on 27 February 2016 at Münster-Handorf, at the age of 100.

She was born in Grundhof (Luxembourg) on 15 May 1915 an was married there in 1942 to Count Wilderich von Galen (1913-1967).
They were parents of six children (Franz, Octavie, Gabrielle, Huberta, Luitwin, Michael), of whom the eldest and the youngest predeceased their mother.
She is survived by four children, her children-in-law, 36 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.

Huberta Gräfin von Galen, Traueranzeige, Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung GmbH & Co. KG, Gedenkkerzen, Kondolenzen, Fotos
Galen

[Biri]

Countess Marie-Blanche of Oultremont, nee Countess du Chastel de la Howarderie died in Opheylissem on 29 February.

She was born in Paris on 24 August 1921. She married Civilly in Ixelle on 26 May and religiously in Brussels on 14 June Count Adrien of Oultremont (1918-2005) [second of eight children and oldest son of Count Albert of Oultremont(1887-1946) & his wife Marguerite van de Werve d'Immerseel (1891-1992)] by whom she had two daughters: Sophie (b.1949, later wife of Count Christian of Ursel, b.1937, died a year ago) & Clotilde (b.1952, later wife of Prince Charles Louis de Merode, b.1948) eight grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.

Source: http://www.carnetmondain.be/

[Biri]

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

He was born in 1929 as oldest child 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 1953 Alice Hoffelner (b.1930) by whom he had four children: Elisabeth (b.1954), Philipp (b.1955), Eberhardt (1957-1990) & Franz (b.1961) as well as eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Source: Descendants of Archduke Johann of Austria

[MAfan]

He died on 5 March 2016, aged 86, at his house at Attersee.
He was a renowned cellist and conductor.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

[MAfan]

The Dowager Countess of Portland, Countess von Bentinck und Waldeck-Limpurg, née Jenifer Hopkins, died on 23 March 2016 at Wexham Park Hospital. She was 79.

She was born in London on 13 May 1936 and married on 23 February 1974 to Henry Bentinck, Count von Bentinck und Waldeck-Limpurg, who in 1990 succeeded to a distant cousin as 11th Earl of Portland. They didn't have children together.
The Earl was previously married to Pauline Mellowes, with whom he had two daughters and one son (the current Earl).

BENTINCK, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF PORTLAND - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements

[Von Schlesian]

John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard, died yesterday at his family seat, Raby Castle. He was 92.

Lord Barnard dies aged 92 - Sunderland Echo

[MAfan]

Count Patrice de Mac Mahon died on 5 April 2016, aged 72.

He was born on 11 September 1943, the fourth child of Maurice de Mac Mahon, 3rd Duke de Magenta, and of his wife, née Countess Marguerite de Caraman-Chimay.
He was married since 1966 to Beatrix de Blanquet du Chayla, by whom he had four daughters.
He is survived by his wife, their daughters with their families, as well as by his younger sister Véronique.
His older siblings have all predeceased him; the only son of his older brother, Maurice, is the current and fifth Duke of Magenta.

Magenta

[sgarland1964]

What caused Chiara Kunigl to die at such a young age.

[Marc23]

Originally Posted by sgarland1964

What caused Chiara Kunigl to die at such a young age.

I am not sure,but I think that it was suicide due to depression caused by some sort of mobbing,bullying...

If am not correct,please,correct me.

[MAfan]

Count Maurice de Cossé-Brissac died on 24 March 2016. He was 84.

He was born on 26 May 1931 in Paris, the second child of Count Charles de Cossé-Brissac and of his wife, née Herminie de Rohan-Chabot.
He married in 1958 to Béatrice Millin de Grandmaison (1934-1968), by whom he had one daughter, Hélène.
He is survived by her, her husband Friedrich Byloff, and by his three grandchildren with their families.

Avis de décès - Comte Maurice DE COSSÉ BRISSAC - Avis obsèques - Charmoy (71) - Charmoy (89) - Dans nos coeurs

His daughter Hélène has been married from 1981 until they divorced in 1991 to H.S.H. Prince Vincenz von und zu Liechtenstein, the eldest child of Prince Heinrich and his wife, née Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria. They were parents of two daughters, Adelheid (Countess Dominik von Coundenhove-Kalergi) and Hedwige (Countess Olivier de Quélen).
She later remarried to Friedrich Byloff, by whom she had one son, Artus.