Diane de Guldencrone (''née'' de Gobineau; 13 September 1848 – 1930) was a French historian.

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Diane Marguerite Gabrielle Victoire Clémence de Gobineau was born in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

, the eldest daughter of diplomat, politician and writer

Arthur de Gobineau Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (; 14 July 1816 – 13 October 1882) was a French aristocrat who is best known for helping to legitimise racism by the use of scientific racist theory and "racial demography", and for developing the theory of the Aryan ...

(1816–1882) and Clémence Monnerot (1816–1911). In 1866, she married Danish baron Ode of Güldencrone (1840–1880) in

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

, Greece. Baron Güldencrone was a marine officier and '' aide-de-camp'' to King

George I of Greece George I ( Greek: Γεώργιος Α΄, ''Geórgios I''; 24 December 1845 – 18 March 1913) was King of Greece from 30 March 1863 until his assassination in 1913. Originally a Danish prince, he was born in Copenhagen, and seemed destined for ...

. The couple had five children: Wilhelm (1867–1878), Arthur (1869–1895), Clémence (1872–1891), Christian (1874–1875) and Marie (1876-1890), who all died before their mother. Diane de Guldencrone wrote two books: one about the history of

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(spanning from the creation of the

Principality of Achaea The Principality of Achaea () or Principality of Morea was one of the three vassal states of the Latin Empire, which replaced the Byzantine Empire after the capture of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade. It became a vassal of the Kingdom o ...

in 1205 to the siege of Athens by the Turks in 1456), and one about the history of

Byzantine Italy Byzantine Italy was those parts of the Italian peninsula under the control of the Byzantine empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476). The last Byzantine outpost in Italy, Bari was lost in 1071. Chronologically, it refers to: *Praet ...

. She died in

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A portrait of Diane de Gobineau as a child
by Germann-August von Bohn {{DEFAULTSORT:Guldencrone, Diane de 19th-century French women writers 20th-century French women writers 19th-century French historians 20th-century French historians French women historians French Byzantinists 1848 births Writers from Paris 1930 deaths Diane

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