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House Of Castellane
The House of Castellane is a very ancient French noble house originating in Provence and descended from Thibault, count of Arles in the 9th century. History Boniface, 1st sovereign baron de Castellane, lived in the 11th century. The sovereign barons de Castellane ruled over a small state bordering the Haute-Provence until the beginning of the 13th century, rendering homage to their overlord the count of Provence. Even after this they retained de jure sovereignty: " "Even after having been forced to pay homage to the Counts of Provence, these powerful feudal lords retained the fullness of the authority they exercised over their vassals." According to Lumens (Histoire de Castellane, published by J.-B. Shares... e town, the castle and the rock of Castellane and declared him sovereign after the example of his elders; In 1993, king Juan Carlos I rehabilitated the title of Duke of Almazán de Saint Priest on a descendant of the first duke, Louis Provence Boniface de Castellane (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provence
Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It largely corresponds with the modern administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and includes the departments of Var, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, as well as parts of Alpes-Maritimes and Vaucluse.''Le Petit Robert, Dictionnaire Universel des Noms Propres'' (1988). The largest city of the region and its modern-day capital is Marseille. The Romans made the region the first Roman province beyond the Alps and called it ''Provincia Romana'', which evolved into the present name. Until 1481 it was ruled by the Counts of Provence from their capital in Aix-en-Provence, then became a province of the Kings of France. While it has been part of France for more than 500 years, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline De Talleyrand-Périgord
Joséphine Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord, Marquise de Castellane (29 December 1820 12 October 1890) was a French noblewoman. Early life Joséphine Pauline was born in Paris on 29 December 1820. She was the third legitimate child of the Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord, the 2nd Duke of Dino and Princess Dorothea of Courland, the Duchess of Dino. She is often thought to have in fact been fathered by Edmund's uncle, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince of Bénévent. She grew up in Talleyrand's ''hôtel particulier'' on rue Saint-Florentin, was nicknamed "angel of the house" and "my dear Minette" by him, and held a great affection for him throughout her life. Her siblings were Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord, 3rd Duke of Talleyrand, Duke of Valençay (father of Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord), Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord, who died young, and Alexandre Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord, who married Valentine de Sainte-Aldegonde (the parents of Maurice de Talleyrand-Pér ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Von Hatzfeld
Count Maximilian Friedrich Karl Franz von Hatzfeldt zu Trachenberg (7 June 1813 – 19 January 1859) was a Prussian aristocrat and diplomat. By birth he was member of an ancient House of Hatzfeld. Early life Maximilian was born in Berlin on 7 June 1813. He was the second son and youngest child of the Prussian general, :de:Franz Ludwig von Hatzfeldt, Prince Franz Ludwig von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg and Countess Friederike Karoline Schulenburg (surname), von der Schulenburg-Kehnert (1779–1832), a daughter of the Prussian minister to the General Directorate :File:Sebastian_Weygandt_Portrait_eines_Herrn.jpg, Count Friedrich Wilhelm von der Schulenburg-Kehnert. His older sister, Countess Luise von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg was the wife of Prussian General Ludwig Freiherr Roth von Schreckenstein, the Prussian Minister of War, Minister of War. Among his other siblings was older brother Prince Hermann Anton von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg and sister Sophie von Hatzfeldt, Princess Sophie von Hatzfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie De Castellane
Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224–1275), second wife and only Duchess consort of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Lothier Born in 1600s and 1700s * Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (1729–1796), later Empress Catherine II of Russia * Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628–1685), Queen consort of Denmark-Norway * Sophie Blanchard (1778–1819), French balloonist * Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg (1759–1828), second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia * Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères ( 1795–1840), English baroness * Sophie Germain (1776–1831), French mathematician * Sophie Piper (1757–1816), Swedish countess * Sophie Schröder (1781–1868), German actress * Sophie von La Roche (1730–1807), German author Born 1790–1918 * Sophie, Duchess of Alen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Terry
Emilio Rene Terry y Sánchez (1890–1969), known as Emilio Terry was a French architect, artist, interior decorator and landscape designer of Cuban-Irish ancestry. Creating furniture, tapestries and objets d'art, he was influenced by the château de Chenonceau, acquired by his family, and he created a style that was at once classical and baroque, which he called the "Louis XVII style". Life Terry was born in Paris on 13 September 1890 to Francisco Terry y Dorticós, scion of a prominent Cuban family, Hispano-Irish in origin, that made its fortune in the sugar plantations. His mother, a great beauty, was the former Antonia Sánchez. His paternal grandfather was sugar baron Tomás Terry, a Venezuelan-born Irishman known as the "Cuban Croesus", and his paternal grandmother was Teresa Dorticós y Gómez de Leys, a daughter of Andrés Dorticós y Casson, the millionaire Governor of Cienfuegos, Cuba. One of his uncles, Antonio Terry, married the American soprano Sybil Sanderson. After 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislas De Castellane
Stanislas de Castellane (15 October 1875 - 4 July 1959) was a French politician, representing Cantal in parliament several times between 1902 and 1940. Biography He was born in Juigné-sur-Sarthe, the youngest son of Antoine de Castellane and a member of the House of Castellane. His elder brother was Boni de Castellane. He studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and entered politics at a young age, being elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a representative of Cantal in 1902, when he was 27. He lost his seat in 1906, was reelected in 1919 and again in 1928. Between 1930 and 1932 he was vice-president of the Chamber. In 1938 he was elected senator for Cantal. Additionally, in 1905 he was elected mayor of Marcenat, holding the title until 1940. On 10 July 1940, he voted in favour of handing over full powers to Marshal Pétain. Because of this, after the Liberation, he was declared ineligible and could not seek another parliamentary mandate. In 1901 he married Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothée De Talleyrand-Périgord
Marie Dorothée Louise de Talleyrand-Périgord (17 November 1862 – 17 July 1948) was a French aristocrat most notable for her salons and her role in European high-society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known as "Dolly" to her friends, she inspired artists and writers including Marcel Proust. She was the half-sister of the prince de Sagan, who had dual French and Prussian nationality and sat in the Prussian House of Lords.André Germain, ''op. cité'', p. 126 Biography A daughter of Napoléon-Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord (1811–1898), duc de Dino et de Talleyrand and Rachel Élisabeth Pauline de Castellane, she spent her childhood in her father's vast estates in Prussia, where even as a very small child accompanied him on wolf hunts. Her first marriage was to Hereditary Prince Charles Egon IV von und zu Fürstenberg, one-time lover of the courtesan Laure Hayman and son of hereditary prince Charles-Egon III and his wife Princess Elisabeth Reuss zu Greiz. Their m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean De Castellane
Jean de Castellane (24 April 1868 – 13 September 1965) was a French politician and member of the house of Castellane. In 1898 he married Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord. He was born and died in Paris. Life He was the second son of Antoine de Castellane and the brother of Boniface and Stanislas. He initially served as a cavalry officer but left the army in 1902 to stand in the legislative elections in Cantal. He was elected, but disqualified for bribery and beaten in the by-election that followed. He was a municipal counsellor in Paris from 1919 to 1944 and was vice-president of the municipal council in 1928 and then from 1930 to 1931. He was also general counsellor for Seine He was finally political career as president of the French Swimming Federation. Sources * " Jean de Castellane ", dans le Dictionnaire des parlementaires français (1889–1940), sous la direction de Jean Jolly, PUF, 1960 {{DEFAULTSORT:Castellane, Jean de 1868 births 1965 deaths 20th-century Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe François Armand Marie De Noailles
Philippe François Armand Marie de Noailles, Duc de Mouchy, Prince-Duc de Poix (17 April 1922 – 28 February 2011) was a cadet of the French ducal house of Noailles (created dukes and peers of France in 1663 by Louis XIV), and second in succession to the senior title. He was the eldest son of Henri-Antoine-Marie de Noailles, Duc de Mouchy, Prince-Duc de Poix, and of Marie de La Rochefoucauld. Following his marriage to Joan Dillon, he became managing director of Domaine Clarence Dillon. Together, the couple acquired Château La Mission Haut-Brion, Château Laville Haut-Brion and Château La Tour Haut-Brion. Family Philippe was married twice. His first wife was Diane Rose Anne Marie de Castellane y Fernández Anchorena (b. Paris 19 February 1927 - d. 11 December 2010), whom he married in Paris on 14 April 1948 (divorced 1974). They had two sons and one daughter. His second wife was ''HRH'' Princess Joan of Luxembourg, ''née'' Joan Douglas Dillon (b. New York City, 31 Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges De Castellane
Georges may refer to: Places *Georges River, New South Wales, Australia *Georges Quay (Dublin) *Georges Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania Other uses *Georges (name) * ''Georges'' (novel), a novel by Alexandre Dumas * "Georges" (song), a 1977 song originally recorded by Pat Simon and covered by Sylvie Vartan *Georges (store), a department store in Melbourne, Australia from 1880 to 1995 * Georges (''Green Card'' character) People with the surname * Eugenia Georges, American anthropologist *Karl Ernst Georges (1806–1895), German classical philologist and lexicographer, known for his edition of Latin-German dictionaries. See also *École secondaire Georges-P.-Vanier, a high school in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada *École secondaire Georges-Vanier in Laval, Quebec, Canada * French cruiser ''Georges Leygues'', commissioned in 1937 * French frigate ''Georges Leygues'' (D640), commissioned in 1979 *George (other) *Georges Creek (other) *Georges Creek Coal and Iron Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Gould
Anna Gould (June 5, 1875 – November 30, 1961) was an American socialite and heiress as a daughter of financier Jay Gould. Early life Anna Gould was born on June 5, 1875, in New York City. She was the daughter of Jay Gould (1836–1892) and Helen Day Miller (1838–1889). Her siblings included George Jay Gould I, Edwin Gould I, Helen Miller Gould, Howard Gould, and Frank Jay Gould. Personal life On March 14, 1895, she married Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane (1867–1932), elder son and heir apparent of the Marquis of Castellane, in Manhattan, New York. He was commonly referred to as ''Boniface de Castellane'' with the nickname "Boni" and used the courtesy title of Count of Castellane (''Comte de Castellane''). Before their divorce, Boni and Anna had five children together: * Marie Louise de Castellane (b. 1896) * Boniface, Marquis de Castellane (1896–1946), who married Yvonne Patenôtre, a daughter of Jules Patenôtre and Eleanor Elverson, a relative of the owners o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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