Noble Deaths Announcements 2017

[maria-olivia]

Thanks for your information about Eijsden Castle.
The late Countess was the right Person at the Right Place !

[MAfan]

The Lord Christopher Thynne died on 27 January 2017, aged 82.

He was born on 6 April 1934 and was the third son of the 6th Marquess of Bath and of his first wife, née the Hon. Daphne Vivian (of the Barons Vivian).
He was married since 1968 to Antonia Palmer, by whom he had one son, Alexander, and one daughter, Sophie.

Peerage News: Lord Christopher Thynne (1934-2017)
Thynne; Bath

[MAfan]

The Hon. Katherine Macmillan, Dowager Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden, DBE, née Ormsby-Gore, passed away on 22 January 2017, aged 96.

She was born on 4 January 1921 as the daughter of William Ormsby-Gore, later 4th Baron Harlech, and of his wife, née Lady Beatrice Gascoyne-Cecil (daughter of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury).
She married in 1942 to Maurice Macmillan, son of Harold Macmillan (consevative politician, later Prime Minister) and of his wife, née Lady Dorothy Cavendish (daughter of the 8th Duke of Devonshire). They became parents of five children (Alexander, Joshua, Adam, Rachel, David).
In 1984 her father-in-law was created 1st Earl of Stockton and Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden; the latter title was user by her husband as courtesy title. Her husband Maurice died in 1984, predeceasing his father.
She is survived by her sons Alexander (the 2nd and current Earl of Stockton) and David, by seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; her other three children predeceased her.

MACMILLAN - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements
Peerage News: Katherine Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden, DBE (1921-2017)

[MAfan]

Count Constantin Didisheim died on 2 March 2017 in Italy, aged 25, victim of an avalanche while skiing near Courmayeur.

He was born in Uccle (Belgium) on 16 September 1991, the son of Count Christophe Didisheim and of his wife, née Clotilde Ancarani. His grandparents are Count Michel Didisheim (for many years Private Secretary and Chief of Staff of King Albert II of Belgium and former President of the King Baudouin Foundation) and his wife, née Countess Monika von und zu Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg.
He was unmarried and worked as a film director.
He died on 2 March 2017 near Courmayeur, after being hit by an avalanche. Two more persons died in the same circoumstance and 18 more were injured.

http://www.algr.be/documents/necros/...m-20170311.pdf
Three killed, many injured in Courmayeur avalanche - English - ANSA.it
Constantin, un Bruxellois de 25 ans, est décédé dans l'avalanche en Italie en voulant secourir ses amis - RTL Info

[QueenPenny]

How tragic - he was so young Condolences to his family and friends.

[Biri]

Baron Christian von Saalfeld died this year.

He was born in 1937 as third of six children (and first from second marriage) of Ralf, Baron von Saalfeld (1900-1947) who was a son of Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1859-1941) & his (probably) morganatic wife Katharina Jensen, created Baroness von Saalfeld in the year of their wedding (1892; 1874-1945);for this marriage he lost his right to succession in favour of his brother George.
Christian's mother was Melanie von Bismarck (1911-1987); his parents after him had three more children together: Klaus (b.1939), Bettina (b.1942) & Ulrike (b.1946). His father from his first marriage to Marie Seitz (1903-1931) had two children: (Karin (1927-1944) & Hermann (1929-2015).
In 1969 Christian married Claudia Maria Reichhold (b.1942) by whom he had two daughters: Clivia (b.1972) & Cornelia (b.1975) as well as four grandchildren: Kai, Jovis, Malte & Felix [children of Clivia & her husband Henry Feddersen]

Source: Descendants of Queen Victoria's siblings

[Biri]

Countess Joelle Cornet d'Elzius du Chennoy, nee Baroness de Crombrugghe de Looringghe died in Maleves-Sainte-Marie on 4 April, sixteen days after her 55th birthday.


She was born on 19 March 1962 in Etterbeek and in 1985 she married Count Xavier Cornet d'Elzius du Chennoy (b.1962) by whom she had three children: Christophe (b.1988), Marie Caroline (b.1991) & Sophie (b.1992).
She died exactly a week after the engagement of her older daughter with Jonkheer Benjamin van Innis (b.1987) was announced.


Sources: http://www.carnetmondain.be/
Descendants of Count Thierry de Limburg Stirum and Countess Marie Th?r?se de Thiennes, Leyenburg et de Rumbeke


Countess Ingrid von Meran, nee Messner died on 8 April.


She was born in Stainz on 16 January 1939. She married in Innsbruch civilly on 13 June and religiously on 15 June 1959 Johann, Count von Meran (1934-1978), youngest of five children of Franz, Count von Meran (1891-1983) & his wife Princess Wilhelmine von Auersperg (1894-1986) by whom she had five children: Johanna (b.1959), Katharina (b.1961), Marie (b.1962), Franz (b.1964, current Count von Meran) & Friedrich (b.1965).
Apart from her children she leaves five grandchildren.


Michel Penon died this year.


He was the third husband of Eleonore Leveque de Vilmorin (b.1947) [daughter of Roger Leveque de Vilmorin (1905-1980) {himself firstborn, out-of-wedlock child of Alfonso XIII, King of Spain (1886-1941) by Melanie de Gaufridy de Dortan (1876-1937)} & his second wife Edith Lowther (1906-?)] and therefore a stepfather to her four children Nicholas (b.1973), Eve (b.1975), Marguerite (b.1980) & Luc (b.1982) de Dampierre - two older from first marriage to Count Guy de Dampierre (b.1938) and two younger - from the second one to Count Aymeric de Dampierre (b.1947).


Source: Descendants of King Alfonso XII of Spain


Sources: https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...al-information
Austria
Descendants of Archduke Johann of Austria

[MAfan]

Princess Laure de Beauvau-Craon, née du Temple de Rougemont, died on 29 April 2017, aged 74.

She was born in Tarbes on 15 September 1942 and was the daughter of Count Jean-Louis du Temple de Rougemont and of his wife, née Louise Lejeune (herself daughter of Baron Edgard Lejeune and of his wife, née Princess Marguerite Murat).
She married in 1972 to Prince Marc de Beauvau-Craon (1921-1982); they didn't have children. Her husband was divorced from Maria Cristina Patiño y de Borbón, daughter of Anténor Patiño and of his first wife María Cristina de Borbón y Bosch-Labrús, Duchess of Durcal (a descendant of the Spanish Royal Family), by whom he had two daughters.
She is survived by her siblings and their families, as well as by her two stepdaughters.
She has served for some years as President of Sotheby's France.

Mort de Laure de Beauvau-Craon, «une grande dame»

[Biri]

Great tragedy has fallen on Count Johannes Hoyos (b.1978) [younger of two children of Princess Ysabel of Bavaria (b.1954) & her husband, Count Alfred Hoyos (b.1951)] & his wife Weronika, nee Wundsam (b.1980); their first child, Ludwig, unfortunately died soon after birth this year (or was stillborn).

Source: Descendants of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria

So sad...
RIP little angel...

[Ceely]

Count Philippe d'Ursel (born 1920), died on March 26 this year at the age of 96. He was the eldest child of Count Louis d'Ursel (1886-1969) and Genevieve Le Pelletier de Rosanbo (1893-1973). In 1956 he married Marie Antoinette Sabine Roche de La Rigodiere (b. 1933) and is survived by her, their four children (Etienne, Nicolas, Christophe, and Valentine) and several grandchildren.

His younger sister, Countess Lucie d'Ursel (born 1924) died on June 7, shortly before her 93rd birthday. She married in 1951 Count Lionel de Warren (1920-2010).

Source for both: Ursel

[Biri]

Countess Jutta von Platen-Hallermund nee Hahn died sometime this year.


She was born in Gluckstadt on 13 June 1925 and married there on 31 January 1947 Count Ernst von Platen-Hallermund (1924-2007) [son of Count Herbert von Platen-Hallermund (1888-1945) & his second wife Charlotte Schultz (1903-1993)] by whom she had an only son Ernst-Gunther (b.1948; married to Barbel Kropdlowski, b.1957) and two granddaughters: Sandra (b.1986) & Meike (b.1991).


Sources: Platen Hallermund
Netty Royal


Christine Maria Bengels, former Countess Michael of Kageneck, died this year.


She was born in 1942 and in 1964 she married Count Michael of Kageneck (1941-2012) [son of Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria (1913-2005) & her first husband, CountFranz Joseph of Kageneck (1915-1941)]; their marriage lasted only six years (divorce in 1970).
She had with him three children: Martin (b.1964), Alexandra (b.1966) & Andreas (b.1968) and eight grandchildren: one of them - Paul, son of Alexandra - died in 1990 aged three.
Other children of Alexandra are twin sister of Paul named Lisa and Peter (b.1991).
Of Martin: Jens (b.1991) and Pena Lucia (b.2006)
Of Andreas: Greta, Ida and Romy.


Source: Descendants of King Louis Philippe I of the French

[MAfan]

The Rt.Hon. the Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Dowager Baroness Brabourne, died on 13 June 2017 at her home in Mersham, Kent, aged 93.

http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...7-a-42500.html

[Ceely]

Count Renaud d'Ursel died on June 17, age 62. He was the second of three children of Count Serge d'Ursel (1924-1995) and Michelle de Foestraets (1929-2008). He did not marry or have children. He is survived by his sister Chantal and her family, as well as the family of his late brother Antoine.

Source: Ursel

[Biri]

Prince Alexandre Bertrand Galitzine died on 9 July.

He was born in Paris on 3 December 1936 as oldest of three children of Prince Alexander Galitzine 1910-1988) & his wife Helene, nee Bonnell (1915-2005); he had a brother Patrice (1939-2005) and a sister Catherine (b.1944).
He was married twice: married firstly in Bourron-Marlotte on 29 June 1961 Marie-Claude Louise Montavon (b.1936).
They had three children: Alexandre "Stephane" (b.1961), Sophie (b.1963) & Irene (b.1964).
They divorced in 1998; the same year Alexandre Bertrand married in Washington on 9 May Christine Baker Howard (b.1951).

Apart from his wife children and sister he leaves four granddaughters [children of his son & daughter-in-law, Isabelle, nee Leray (b.1963)]: Charlotte (b.1988), Vanda (b.1991), Alexandra (b.1992) & Marie-Catherine (b.2003); his only grandson Gregoire died on 28 November 1987 just ten days after birth - as well as two sons-in-law: Franck Perrollaz (b.1966) [Sophie's husband] & Eric Boisteau (b.1964) [Irene's husband] and three nephews and three nieces [Patrice's children] with their families.

Both his daughters married the same year - in 2008:
Sophie & Franck - on 27 September.
Irene & Eric - on 22 November.

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

[Biri]

Prince Charles of Croy died in Uccle on 19 July, a month and two days after his 66th birthday.

He was born in Rumilies as fourth and youngest child of Prince Emmanuel of Croy (1908-1997) & his wife, Countess Nicole de Marnix de Sainte-Adelgonde (1909-2011).
He leaves two sisters: Isabelle (b.1945) & Marie (b.1946) and brother Guillaume (b.1950) with their families.
He was unmarried and childless.

Sources: https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...al-information
http://www.carnetmondain.be/
Croy

Charlotte d'Harcourt, nee de Laminne de Bex, died in Baionville on 21 June.

She was born in Ixelles on 19 March 1934.
She married in Etterbeek on 27 April 1957 Michel d'Harcourt (b.1929) [son of Gerard d'Harcourt (1889-1981) & his wife Hedwige, nee Countess de Ribeaucourt (1901-1988)] by whom she had five children: Sophie (b.1958), twins Gerard (b.1960) & Olivier (1960-2012), Valerie (b.1957) & Clement (b.1976).
She is survived by her four children and their families.

Sources: Harcourt
http://www.carnetmondain.be/

Count Bernard de Rochefoucault died on 18 July, twenty days fefore his 95th birthday.

He was born in Paris as fourth of five children of Pierre, Count de La Rochefoucault-Estissac (1887-1970) & his wife Henriette, nee de la Roche (1892-1980).
He married in Paris on 15 December 1949 Marie Birgitte Brian (b.1928) by whom he had five children: Edmond (b.1951), Anne (b.1953), Sabine (b.1958), Sophie (b.1960) & Paul (b.1965).
He is survived by his wife, children and grandchildren.
He is last of his parents' children to pass away.

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha...efoucauld.html

[Biri]

Prince Philippe de Bethune-Hesdigneul died in Orbais on 15 July.

He was born in Brussels on 24 September 1959 as youngest of three children and only son of Prince Albert de Bethune-Hesdigneul (1916-1986) & his second wife Geneviève Countess du Chastel de la Howarderie (1912-24 September 1959) who died giving birth to him and bereaving also Mahaut (b.8 April 1951) & Isabelle (b.12 April 1952).
When he was 22 months old, on 31 July 1961, his widowed father married, for the third time, Jacqueline de Bengy Puyvallée (1917-1993).
He married in Maulde, Belgium 25 May 1991 Dominique Marie Ghislaine Cossé de Maulde (b.1961)by whom he had three sons: Charles (who turned 25 a day before the death of his father), Gatien (who will turn 23 on 30 August) & Hugues (who will turn 21 on 8 November).
He leaves his wife, sons and both sisters with their families.

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/bethune.html

Prince Andrea Neri Corsini died in July.

He was born in Florence on 11 January 1943 as second of five children and eldest son of Prince Neri Corsini, Marquess of Giovagallo (1909-1973) & his wife Laura Ginori Lisci, Marchioness of Riparbella (1913-1995).
He married in Villa Corsini delle Mozzete, San Piero a Sieve on 1 July 1973 Cristina Maestrini; they had two daughters: Allegra Diletta (b.1975) & Domitilla Caterina (b.1978).
Apart from his wife and daughters he leaves his sister Paola (b.1939) and brothers Lorenzo Stefano (b.1946) & Clemente (b.1953); his third brother Roberto predeceased him in 1984, seven weeks before his 34th birthday.

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/corsini.html

Donna Ilaria Imperiali died in June.

She was born in Rome on 3 November 1973 as third of four children and younger daughter of Don Andrea Imperiali (b.1389) & his late wife Eleonora, nee Countess Pignatti Morano di Custozza (1947-2006).
Apart from her father she leavesher sister Severa (b.1970) and brothers Cristiano (b.1972) & Lorenzo (b.1977) with their families.

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha...imperiali.html

Count Eberhard of Stolberg-Wernigerode died on 17 April.

He was born in Hirschberg, Silesia on 19 June 1931 as an only child of Count Christian Friedrich of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1901-1994) & his wife Anneliese, nee Countess von Rothkirch und Trach (1896-1967).
He was married twice: firstly (from 1956 to 1972) to Freiin Anna Elisabeth von der Borch (b.1935) & secondly (from 1973) to Barbara von Lindeiner gen. von Wildau (b.1935).
By his first wife he had three daughters: Ernestine (b.1957), Huberta (b.1959) & Susanne (b.1962) and by second wife - a son Constantin (b.1975).

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha.../stolberg.html

Prince Alexis Troubetzkoy died in Toronto on 22 January.

He was born in Clamart on 6 March 1934 as eldest of three children and only son of Prince Sergei Troubetzkoy (1906-2003) & his wife Princess Ljubov Alekseievna Obolensky (1912-1991).
He married in Rome on 14 June 1967 Hélène Khlebnikov (b.1935) by whom he had a daughter Anna and a son Andre.
Apart from his wife and children he leaves a sister Elisabeth (b.1945); his other sister Maria predeceased him in 2010 (aged nearly 72).

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha...oubetzkoy.html

Countess Amelie Szechenyi, nee de Hemptinne died in Sion, Switzerland, on 4 April; she would have turned 40 on 28 August.

She bereft her husband since 2005, Count Gabriel Szechenyi, who will turn 44 on 30 August [son of Count Gabriel "Gabor" Szechenyi (b.1943) & his first wife Agnes de Regis de Gatimel (b.1950)] and two little sons: Maxime (b.2012) & Julian (b.2014).

So very sad...two little boys left motherless...

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha...szechenyi.html

Count George de La Rochefoucault died on 26 May.

He was born in Toulon on 4 February 1930 as fourth of six children and second son of Count Gilbertde La Rochefoucault, Duke de La Roch-Guyon (1889-1964) and second child by his second wife Marie Louise Lerchen (1899-1984).
He married in Paris on 7 May 1958 Jacqueline d'Etigny de Sérilly de Teil de Chappelaine (b.1929) by whom he had five sons: Guillaume (b.1959), Louis (b.1961), Hugues (b.1962), Anne-Mathieu (b.1964) & Charles-Aymon (b.1968) and seventeen grandchildren.

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha...efoucauld.html

Claude Burin de Roziers, nee Countess de La Rochefoucault died on 1 June.

She was born in Paris on 22 December 1948 as as fourth of six children of Count Alexandre de La Rochefoucault, Duke of Estissac (1917-2008) & his wife Antoinette de Moustier (1923-2015).
She married in Combreux on 22 February 1974 Antoine Marie Burin des Roziers (b.1947).
She is the first of her siblings to pass away.

Source: as above.

Elisabeth Allen, nee Countess de La Rochefoucault died on 2 May.

She was born inParis on 19 July 1921 as an only child of Count Gaston de La Rochefoucault (1893-1309) & his wife Anne de Crussol d'Uzes (1885-1984).
She married in Paris on 24 November 1955 Douglas Stuart Allen (b.1923).

Source: as above.

[Biri]

Princess Ghislaine Sapieha-Kodenski, nee van Cutsem died in Saint-Malo on 26 July.


She was born in Metz on 23 February 1944 and became a second wife of Prince Michał Sapieha-Kodenski (1930-2013), widower of Jonkvrouw Myriam de Decker de Brandeken (1929-1997).


She leaves two stepsons Alexander (b.1953) & Stefan (b.1956) and their families.


Sources: Descendants of Prince Ladislaw Sapieha-Kodenski
http://www.carnetmondain.be/

[Spheno]

David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort dies, aged 89 - BBC News


David Somerset, the 11th Duke of Beaufort, has died at the age of 89.
Badminton House said in a statement he died peacefully at his home on the Gloucestershire estate on Wednesday.

[Biri]

Don Giuseppe Imperiali died on 4 May.

He was born in Mercato San Severino on 3 February 1932 as fourth of eleven children of Don Emanuele Imperiali, Duke and Marquess Imperiali, Prince of Francavilla (1896-1981)& his wife (and distant relative) Donna Maria Adelaide Imperiali (1907-1987).
He was married to a woman named Maria Lavinia.

His siblings are: Luciano (heir of the titles, b.1927), Maria Immacolata (b.1929), Gianluca (1930-2002), Maria Amalia (b.1933), Antonio (b.1935), Luigi (b.1938), Maria Loreta (b.1940), Francesco (b.1940, twin of Maria Loreta), Gerardo (b.1942) & Pio Lanfranco (b.1945).

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha...imperiali.html

[Biri]

Don Antonello Ruffo di Calabria,a brother of Queen Paola of Belgium, died in Rome on 24 August.

He was born in Rome on 31 May as the sixth and penultimate child of Don Fulco Ruffo, Prince Ruffo di Calabria (1884-1946) & his wife Luisa Gazelli (1896-1989) [herself firstborn child of Augusto Gazelli [dei conti di Rossana] (1855-1937) & his wife Maria Cristina Rignon (1858-1930)].
He married in Palermo on 4 January 1961 Rosa Maria Mastrogiovanni Tasca (b.Regaleasi 12 Jun 1943) but they divorced in 1978.
They had five children: Covella (b.1962), Lucio (b.1964), Domitila (b.1965), Claudia (b.1969) & Valentina (DOB unknown) as well as four grandchildren: Flavia (b.1990) & Filippo (b.1995) Porcari Li Destri [children of Domitila & hher late husband Don Giovanni dei Baroni Porcari Li Destri (1957-1995) and Leonardo (b.1991) & Marina (b.1994) Salom [children of Claudia & her husband Marcello Salom (b.1957).

Sources: Ruffo
Descendants of Count Felice Rignon
https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...al-information
http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/20...egi-173922062/

Another death in Queen Paola's family:

Oliver Doria d'Angri died this year.

He was a son of Queen Paola's maternal second cousin Princess Donna Giovanna Pignatelli Aragona Cortés (1933-2000) & her first husband Georges Roulet, who became Georges Roulet Doria d’Angri (1923-1992); they divorced when Oliver was nine (born in 1957) and his brother Fabrice - ten (born in 1956).
When Oliver was 17 and Fabrice 18 their mother married again (in 1974) Gerard Bruneau, 13 years her junior (b.1946); four years later (in 1978), at 45 (and her sons were 22 and 21 respectively) she gave birth to her last child, Thierry Bruneau Pignatelli Aragona Cortes.
Donna Giovanna and Geard Bruneau separated in 1996 but apparently never officially divorced.
Previous year (in 1995) Oliver married Benedetta Frasca (b.1968) by whom he had his only child, Marcantonio (b.1998).
Apart from his wife and son, her left his brother Fabrizio, sister-in-law Patrizia della Nesta, nephew Niccolo (b.1992) and niece Giulia (b.1998).
His much younger half-brother Thierry died untimely in 2012 aged 34 (he was unmarried and childless)

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