Countess Margret von Schönborn, née Gschwind died on 13 September.
She was born in Therwil, Switzerland, on 12 June 1927and married in Oberstadionon 21 March 1968 Count Zdenko Friedrich Franz Edmund Theophil Cajetan Mariavon Schönborn (1917-1993) [youngest of five children and younger son of Count Maria Aloys Karl Wilhelm (1879-1960) & his wife Countess Maria Coudenhove (1886-1940)].
She became his fourth wife; his first marriage ended in divorces. She married him thirteen and a half months after his last wife's death.
She left stepson Alexander (b.1941) and a stepdaughter Anjelica (b.1942) [children of her husband from his first marriage to Ingeborg von Bomhard (1918-1999) with their families.
Sources:
SCH?NBORN
Izabella Maria Gabriela du Bois d'Aische, nee Princess Światopołk-Czetwertyńska died on 5 October.
She was born on 14 July 1934 in Warsaw as oldest of nine children of Prince Stanislaw Tomasz Światopołk-Czetwertyńska (1910-1997) & his wife, Baroness Eva Buxhoeveden (1910-1991).
She married civilly in Nivelles on 27 June 1958 and religiously in Warsaw on 30 August 1958 Philippe du Bois d'Aische (b.1930) [son of Raoul Roger du Bois d'Aische (1880-1933) & his wife, Andree Calmeyn (1896-1948)] by whom she had five children: Christine (b.1959), Veronique (b.1960), Louis (b.1963), Gilles (b.1963) & Ferdinand (b.1975) and eighteen grandchildren.
Sources:
http://www.carnetmondain.be/
Swiatopolk-Czetwertynski
Izabella Maria Gabriela ks. ¦wiatope³k-Czetwertyñska na Nowej Czetwertni h. Pogoñ Ruska (M.J. Minakowski, Genealogia potomków Sejmu Wielkiego)
https://sites.google.com/site/myroyalworld/2017-genealogical-information
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Countess Joachim de Pierre de Bernis Calvière, née Princess Armande de Croy died on 4 October, a month and two days before her 100th birthday.
She was born in Lascours as fourth of five children and younger daughter of Prince Francois of Croy (1873-1950) & his wife Simone de Chaponay (1885- 1974). She married in Lascours on 20 October 1941 Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1912-1965) by whom she had two sons Pierre (b.1945) & Bertrand (b.1948).
She leaves two sons and three grandchildren.
Sources:
https://sites.google.com/site/myroyalworld/2017-genealogical-information
https://gw.geneanet.org/elsa2002?la...z=0&p=armande+simone+marie+mathilde&n=de+croy
Croy
Miss Mary Wellesley died 28 September.
She was born posthumously on 8 January 1915 as second daughter of Captain Lord Richard Wellesley, of the Grenadier Guards (1879-1914) [himself third of six children and second son of Arthur Charles Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington (1849-1934) & his wife Kathleen Emily Bulkeley Williams (1848-1927] who was killed in action on 29 October 1914, by his wife the former Louise Nesta Pamela FitzGerald (1999-1946),daughter of Sir Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Baronet, CVO, 20th Knight of Kerry.
She had an older sister Pamela (1914-1997).
Her mother married secondly, in 1917, her first husband's brother (the youngest of six siblings), Major Lord George Wellesley (1889-1967) by whom she had a son, Richard (1920-1984).
She was unmarried.
She leaves her siblings' children and grandchildren.
She outlived two of her nephews [sons of her half-brother Richard & his first wife Ruth Haig-Thomas (1924-2008)] who died the same year 2009: Charles - in March [born October 1955; bereft two daughters: Rosanna (b.October 1989) & Charlotte (b.October 1992)], John - in August (born January 1962; bereft a son Thomas (b.2000)
Sources:
Peerage News: Miss Mary Wellesley 1915-2017
Wellington
Lord Roger Manners died this year.
He was born in London on 23 September 1925 as the youngest of five children and third son of John Henry Montagu Manners, the 9th Duke of Rutland (1886-1940) & his wife Kathleen Tennant (1894-1989), scion of the Barons Glenconner.
Lord Roger, who lived at Heddington, Wiltshire, married on 8 March, 1965 Finola St Lawrence Daubeney, by whom he had two daughters, Moira (b.1966) & Phoebe (b.1968).
Sources:
Rutland
Peerage News: Lord Roger David Manners 1925-2017
Lady Michael Fitzalan Howard died on 23 September.
She was the third wife and widow of Major-Gen Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard, KCVO, CB, CBE, MC (1916-2007), scion of the Dukes of Norfolk.
Her maiden name was Victoria Winifred (Vita) Russell, daughter of Colonel Reginald Russell, CVO, CBE, DSO, and married firstly in 1949, Major Sir Mark Baring, KCVO (1916-1988), scion of the Earls of Cromer, by whom she had 2 daughters; married 2ndly on 2 July 1997 in London Major-General Lord Michael Fitzalan Howard, youngerr brother of Miles Francis Stapleton Fitzalan Howard the 17th Duke of Norfolk (1915-2002). Both brothers were the eldest of eight children of Bernard Edward, 3rd Lord Howard of Glossop (London 10 May 1886-24 Aug 1972) & his wife Mona Josephine Tempest Stapleton, 11th Baroness Beaumont (1894-1971).
Her elder daughter, Lavinia, was Extra Lady-in-Waiting to Diana, Princess of Wales.
Apart from her own childrenand grandchildren she left three stepchildren: Jean Mary (b.28 July 1947; her mother, Joan Marion Hamilton-Dalrymple, died giving birth to her)as well as Isabel Margaret (b.1951) & Thomas Michael (b.1952) [her husband's children by his second wife, Jane Margaret Meade Newman (1921-25 Dec 1995) with their families.
Sources:
Norfolk
Peerage News: Lady Michael Fitzalan Howard c1919-2017
The Lady Herries of Terregles, DCVO, fifteenth holder of the Peerage of Scotland (cr 1489/90) died at her home on 7 April.
Lady Herries served Princess Alexandra the Hon Lady Ogilvy as Lady-in-Waiting for 53 years.
She was born Lady Mary Katherine Fitzalan Howard in 14 Belgrave Square in London on 14 August 1940 as the second of four daughters of Bernard MarmadukeFitzalan Howard, the 16th Duke of Norfolk, KG, GCVO, GBE (1908-1975), by his wife Honourable Lavinia Strutt (1916-1995), daughter of the 3rd Baron Belper.
Lady Mary was appointed a Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Alexandra in 1964; appointed CVO in 1982, and advanced to DCVO in 1995.
She married in 1986, Group Capt Anthony Mumford, CVO, OBE (died 2006). No issue of the marriage.
Lady Mary succeeded her elder sister, Anne, in the Lordship of Herries of Terregles, 23 Nov, 2014.
The peerage now passes to her younger sister, Jane (the youngest of four and only living) born 24 June, 1945, and wife since 1975 of the 13th Marquis of Lothian.
Source:
http://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2017/04/lady-herries-of-terregles-dcvo-1940-2017.html
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/norfolk.html
Count Raimund Adalbert of Erbach-Fürstenau died in Bad König on 2 September.
He was born on 2 April 1951 in Heidelberg as the firstborn child (of three) of Count Eugen zu Erbach-Fürstenau (1923-1987) & his wife Countess Elisabeth zu Erbach-Fürstenau (b.1929) [daughter of her husband's paternal first cousin].
He married civilly on 23 February 1976 in Munich and religiously on 28 February 1976 in Vienna Princess Isabella of Liechtenstein (b.1954; first cousin of the current Sovereign of Liechtenstein) [daughter of Prince Georg of Liechtenstein (1911-1998) & his wife Marie-Christine, nee Duchess of Wurtemberg (b.1924)] by whom he had four children Louis (b.1976), Philipp (b.1979), Nikolaus (b.1984) & Margarita (b.1986) and six granchildren: Maria Theodora (b.2011), Anna (b.2013) & Alexander, Viscount of Erbach-Furstenau (DOB unknown) [children of Louis & his wife Olga, nee Li (b.1978)] as well as Amalia (28-10-2008), Georg (b.2011) & Nikolaus (b.2014) [children of Philipp (b.1979) & his wife Juliette, nee Souchon (b.1977)].
Since 1988 he was the head of Erbach-Fürstenau family.
His brother Kraft died prematurely in 1980 aged 18.
His sister Lukardis died in 2005 aged 52. She was unmarried and childless.
Poor Countess Elisabeth, she lost all three of her children...
Sources:
https://sites.google.com/site/myroyalworld/2017-genealogical-information
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/erbach.html
https://trauer.echo-online.de/traueranzeige/raimundadalbertgraf-zuerbach-fuerstenau