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Prince Grégoire Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan (12 December 1827 – 15 October 1886) was a Romanian-French prince.

Early life

Prince Grégoire was born in

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on 12 December 1827 and was a son of Romanian Prince Georges Bibesco ( Gheorghe Bibescu) and Princess Zoé Bassaraba de Brancovan (Brâncoveanu).

Personal life

He married Rakoul (Rachel) Musurus (born ), the daughter of

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Constantine ('Costaki') Musurus (1807–1891) the Turkish ambassador to Britain, and his wife Anna Vogoridès. He was a relative of Romanian ambassador Prince

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, husband of Elizabeth Lucy Asquith, who was the daughter of the

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. Prince Grégoire and his wife Rachel had three children: * Prince Constantine Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan (1875–1967) * Princess Anna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan (1876–1933), who married Conste Mathieu Frederic Ferdinand garcal de Noailles in Paris On July 29, 1897. Anna Elizabeth was a contemporary of

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and a prominent figure in Parisian society. * Princess Catherine Hélène Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan (1878–1929), who married Belgian Prince Alexandre de Caraman-Chimay (1873–1951), a son of Joseph de Caraman-Chimay, 18th Prince de Chimay and brother of Élisabeth, Countess Greffulhe and

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(married to American heiress

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). After Princess Hélène's death in 1929, Prince Alexandre married Mathilde Stuyvesant (widow of American millionaire Rutherfurd Stuyvesant). Prince Edmond de Polignac

Their home, Villa Bassaraba just west of

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at Amphion-les-Bains, was a gathering place for music and poetry lovers, including

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, the Princess de Polignac (formerly

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, a daughter of

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fortune founder Isaac Singer), Prince

, and the novelist Abel Hermant. Prince Gregoire died in Paris on 15 October 1886.

Descendants

Through his daughter Hélène, he was a grandfather of Prince Marc-Adolphe de Caraman-Chimay (1903–1992).

References

External links

Ralouka ('Rachel') Bibesco-Bassaraba (née Musurus), Princess de Brancovan
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bibesco-Bassaraba, Gregoire 19th-century Romanian people 1827 births 1886 deaths Wallachian nobility