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Czernin
The House of Czernin ( cs, Černínové z Chudenic; german: Czernin von und zu Chudenitz) is a Czech noble family that was one of the oldest and most prominent noble families in the Kingdom of Bohemia. The family is a descendent family of the Habsburg family. History The family is descended from the clan of "Drslavici", like several other Bohemian families. The first known bearer of the family name was ''Comes'' and ''Camerarius regis'' (1199–1212) Cernin de Chudenic (11?? - 12??). The name of the family refers to the town of Chudenice (German: ''Chudenitz'') in western Bohemia, which was in their possession from the 13th century until 1945. On 18 May 1607, the Czernin family was elevated to the '' Reichsfreiherrenstand'' with the title of ''Freiherr von Chudenitz'' (Baron of Chudenitz; ''svobodný pán z Chudenic'') and, on 15 March 1623, to the '' Reichsgrafenstand'' with the title of ''Reichsgraf von Chudenitz'' (Count of Chudenitz; ''hrabě z Chudenic''). In 1716, Fra ...
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Ottokar Czernin
Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria ''Graf'' Czernin von und zu Chudenitz ( cs, Otakar Theobald Otto Maria hrabě Černín z Chudenic; 26 September 1872 – 4 April 1932) was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and politician during the time of World War I, notably serving as Foreign Minister from 1916 to 1918. Life and career Family Czernin was born in Dymokury (german: Dimokur) into an ancient Bohemian noble family (the Czernin family). In 1897, he married Marie ''née'' Gräfin Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (1878–1945) in Heřmanův Městec (german: Hermannstädtel). His younger brother Otto was also a diplomat and served ''inter alia'' as envoy to Sofia during World War I. Early career After studying law at the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, he joined the Austro-Hungarian foreign service in 1895 and was dispatched to the embassy in Paris. In 1899, he was sent to The Hague, but only three years later he had to resign as a result of a lung infection and retired to his Bohem ...
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Czernin Von Chudenitz-Wappen
The House of Czernin ( cs, Černínové z Chudenic; german: Czernin von und zu Chudenitz) is a Czech noble family that was one of the oldest and most prominent noble families in the Kingdom of Bohemia. The family is a descendent family of the Habsburg family. History The family is descended from the clan of "Drslavici", like several other Bohemian families. The first known bearer of the family name was ''Comes'' and ''Camerarius regis'' (1199–1212) Cernin de Chudenic (11?? - 12??). The name of the family refers to the town of Chudenice (German: ''Chudenitz'') in western Bohemia, which was in their possession from the 13th century until 1945. On 18 May 1607, the Czernin family was elevated to the '' Reichsfreiherrenstand'' with the title of ''Freiherr von Chudenitz'' (Baron of Chudenitz; ''svobodný pán z Chudenic'') and, on 15 March 1623, to the '' Reichsgrafenstand'' with the title of ''Reichsgraf von Chudenitz'' (Count of Chudenitz; ''hrabě z Chudenic''). In 1716, Fr ...
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Czernin Von Chudenitz Grafen-Wappen
The House of Czernin ( cs, Černínové z Chudenic; german: Czernin von und zu Chudenitz) is a Czech noble family that was one of the oldest and most prominent noble families in the Kingdom of Bohemia. The family is a descendent family of the Habsburg family. History The family is descended from the clan of "Drslavici", like several other Bohemian families. The first known bearer of the family name was ''Comes'' and ''Camerarius regis'' (1199–1212) Cernin de Chudenic (11?? - 12??). The name of the family refers to the town of Chudenice (German: ''Chudenitz'') in western Bohemia, which was in their possession from the 13th century until 1945. On 18 May 1607, the Czernin family was elevated to the '' Reichsfreiherrenstand'' with the title of ''Freiherr von Chudenitz'' (Baron of Chudenitz; ''svobodný pán z Chudenic'') and, on 15 March 1623, to the ''Reichsgrafenstand'' with the title of ''Reichsgraf von Chudenitz'' (Count of Chudenitz; ''hrabě z Chudenic''). In 1716, Fran ...
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Count Manfred Beckett Czernin
Count Manfred Beckett Czernin, (18 January 1913 – 6 October 1962) was a Royal Air Force pilot and later an operative with the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War. Early life Czernin was born to the fourth son of Count Otto von Czernin, an Austrian diplomat, and his English wife, the Hon. Lucy Beckett, daughter of Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe. Several years after he was born, his parents were divorced. Young Manfred moved to Italy with his mother, but he was educated in the United Kingdom at Oundle School. In September 1931, he moved to Rhodesia to work on a tobacco plantation. On 26 November 1931, he officially changed his name from Count Manfred Marie Edmund Ralph Czernin to Manfred Beckett. However, on 27 November 1936, he changed his name from Manfred Beckett to Count Manfred Beckett Czernin. Royal Air Force Czernin returned to the United Kingdom in April 1935 to take up an appointment as an acting pilot officer on a short service commission ...
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Hubertus Czernin
Hubertus Czernin (born Hubertus Alexander Felix Franz Maria Czernin von und zu Chudenitz; 17 January 1956 – 10 June 2006) was an Austrian investigative journalist. Born in Vienna on 17 January 1956 to Felix Theobald Paul Anton Maria Reichsgraf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (1902–1968) and his wife Franziska née Baronin von Mayer-Gunthof (1926–1987), he helped expose the Nazi past of former United Nations Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. Career He wrote initially for the news weekly '' Wochenpresse''. In 1984 he was hired by the Viennese magazine ''Profil'', eventually becoming its editor. Czernin's investigation of Cardinal Hans Hermann Groër revealed that he had had sex with over 2,000 young men, starting in the 1950s and ending in the 1990s. Czernin was the first journalist to gain access to records at the Austrian Gallery in Vienna and, in 1998, published a series of articles about the ownership of five famous paintings from artist Gustav Klimt ...
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Johann Rudolf Czernin Von Und Zu Chudenitz
Johann Rudolf Graf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (born or baptized on 9 June 1757 in Vienna; died or buried on 23 April 1845 in Vienna) was a k. k. Austrian civil servant and theater director. He descended from the old Bohemian noble family Czernin von und zu Chudenitz. He was the son of Count Prokop Adalbert Czernin, who offered Mozart in 1776 a one year's rent, provided he would write some compositions for the Count's orchestra. His sister was Countess Antonie Lützow. His mother was the sister of Archbishop Colloredo, thus the Count was a nephew of the Salzburg Archbishop. Life Czernin went to school in Salzburg, where his uncle, Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, was the bishop. The young Czernin and certainly his sister were in connection with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (and almost the same age), who wrote a violin and piano concerto for them. Countess Lützow, 25 years old, was a fine pianist and Mozart composed a piano concerto ( K. 246) for her in 1776. Count Johann Rudolph Cz ...
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Czech Nobility
Czech nobility consists of the nobility, noble families from historical Czech lands, especially in their narrow sense, i.e. nobility of Bohemia proper, Moravia and Austrian Silesia – whether these families originated from those countries or moved into them through the centuries. These are connected with the history of Great Moravia, Duchy of Bohemia, later Kingdom of Bohemia, Margraviate of Moravia, the Duchies of Silesia and the lands of the Bohemian Crown, Crown of Bohemia, the constitutional predecessor state of the modern-day Czech Republic. Noble titles were abolished by law (No. 61/1918 Sb. z. a n.) in December 1918, shortly after the establishment of the independent First Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslovak Republic. During the period of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Nazism and Communism in Czechoslovakia, communism, representatives of Czech noble families were often persecuted. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, the property confiscated by the communists was return ...
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Peter Czernin
Count Peter John Joseph Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, otherwise known as The Honourable Peter Czernin, (born 1 January 1966) is a British-born film producer. Early life and ancestry Count Peter is the only son of Austro-Hungarian Count Joseph Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (9 August 1924 Prague, Czechoslovakia - 13 April 2015 Kensington, London) and Mary Hazel Caridwen Scott-Ellis, 10th Baroness Howard de Walden (born 12 August 1935). He is the heir apparent to the English peerage title of Baron Howard de Walden, which was created in 1597 by Queen Elizabeth I for Admiral Lord Thomas Howard, a younger son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk. Personal life He married on 17 September 1994, in Cambridge, Lucinda Suzanne Wright (born 1965). They have one daughter and one son: * Audrey Serena Angela (born 1997) * Alexander John Peter (born 1999) Professional work He is the co-founder of production company Blueprint Pictures with Graham Broadbent. As a producer, his work includes ''In ...
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Baron Howard De Walden
Baron Howard de Walden is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by writ of summons in 1597 by Queen Elizabeth I for Admiral Lord Thomas Howard, a younger son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife, the Honourable Margaret Audley, daughter of Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden. History The title was reputedly granted for the Admiral's role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. He subsequently went on to obtain the title of Earl of Suffolk from Elizabeth I's successor, King James I, which latter title continues in his male-line descendants. However, the barony of Howard de Walden eventually passed out of the Howard family with the death in 1688 of James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk, and it came briefly to the 4th Earl of Bristol before passing in 1803 to his great-grandson, the four-year-old Charles Augustus Ellis. The title actually fell into abeyance between 1688 and 1784, between the heirs of the 3rd Earl's two daughters – Lady ...
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Monika Czernin
Monika Czernin (born 18 February 1965) is an Austrian writer, screenwriter, actress and film director. Education and early career Czernin studied education, political science, philosophy and journalism at the University of Vienna. Family background, books and films In 1999, as a young mother, she published her first educational book ''Jeder Augenblick ein Staunen. Vom Abenteuer, mit einem Kind zu wachsen'' (''Each Moment a Marvel. On the adventure of growing with a child''). After her marriage ended with the Swiss pediatrician Remo H. Largo, she published the book ''Glückliche Scheidungskinder'' (''Happy children of divore'', 2003) about children of divorced parents. Already in 2011, also in cooperation with Largo, she published ''Jugendjahre. Kinder durch die Pubertät begleiten'' (''Teenage years. Guiding children through Puberty'') about the problems of adolescents such as computer addiction, school fatigue and binge drinking. In 2021, she published her book ''Der Kaise ...
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Count Otto Von Czernin
Otto Rudolf Theobald Ottokar Maria Graf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz ( cs, Otto Rudolf Theobald Ottokar Maria hrabě Černín z Chudenic; 27 August 1875 – 14 June 1962) was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat during the time of World War I. Life and career Born in Dimokur (Dymokury) on 27 August 1875 into an ancient Bohemian noble family (the Czernin family), he was a younger brother of Ottokar, also a diplomat who would become Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister during World War I. He married Lucy Beckett (1884–1979), daughter of Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe, in London in 1903. The marriage produced three sons, but they divorced shortly after the outbreak of the war in 1914. In 1939, he married Maria Lisa Pfeiffer (1899–1983) in Bratislava. Following studies at the Diplomatic Academy, Count von Czernin entered the Austro-Hungarian foreign service and was first dispatched to London and in 1904 to Rome. He was considered a disciple of Foreign Minister Count Lexa von Ae ...
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Humprecht Jan Czernin
Humprecht Jan Czernin ( cs, Humprecht Jan Černín; 14 February 1628, Radenín – 3 March 1682, Kosmonosy) was a Czech noble and diplomat, member of the Czernin family. Biography Humprecht Jan Czernin was the Habsburg imperial ambassador to Venice and Rome. He was appointed ambassador of King Leopold in Venice in 1659. Humprecht died at the castle in Kosmonosy on 3 March 1682 at the age of 54 years. He was buried in the chapel of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, but his heart was placed in a tin box and placed in the Czernin Chapel of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Stará Boleslav. Legacy The Czernin Palace was commissioned by him in the 1660s. He had also the Humprecht Castle in Sobotka Sobotka () is a town in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,400 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Administrative parts Villages of ... built, named after him. ...
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