Marie-''Joseph''-Guy-Henry-Philippe de Riquet de Caraman, 18th Prince de Chimay (9 October 1836 – 29 March 1892), was a Belgian diplomat and politician.

Early life

Prince Joseph was born on 9 October 1836 at the

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in France. He was the eldest son of Belgian diplomat and industrialist Joseph de Riquet de Caraman, 17th

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, and memoirist

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, the widow of Comte de Brigode. From his parents' marriage, he had three siblings Emilie de Riquet de Caraman (wife of

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), Valentine de Riquet de Caraman (wife of Prince Paul de Bauffremont and Prince George Bibescu) and Eugène de Riquet de Caraman (who married Louise de Graffenried-Villars). From his mother's first marriage, he had an elder half-brother, Henri, Marquis of Brigode who was the Mayor of Romilly (and married Annette du Hallay-Coëtquen). His paternal grandparents were

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, 16th Prince de Chimay, and Thérésa de Cabarrus, one of the leaders of Parisian social life during the Directory. His maternal grandparents were Françoise-Marie LeRoy and a wealthy financier Henri de Pellapra, though Émilie claimed to be a daughter of

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. His niece, Hélène Marie de Riquet de Caraman, married

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Career

The Prince de Chimay served as the Belgian Ambassador to the Holy See from 1846 to 1847. A member of the Catholic Party, he later served as the governor of the province of Hainaut from 1870 to 1878 and

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of Belgium from 1884 until his death in 1892.

Personal life

In 1857, he married Marie Joséphine Anatole de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1834–1884), a daughter of Viscount Napoleon de Montesquiou-Fézensac and Anne Elisabeth Cuiller Perron (a daughter of Gen.

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). Her brother was the French admiral Bertrand de Montesquiou-Fézenzac. The prince was known to give private concerts, with him on violin and his wife on piano. In memory of one of these at which he had assisted,

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dedicated a mass to Caraman-Chimay. Together, they were the parents of six children, including: * Marie ''Joseph'' Anatole Élie de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1858–1937), who married sixteen-year-old American heiress

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, a daughter of Capt. Eber Brock Ward, in 1890. They divorced in 1897 and, after Clara's death, he married Anne Marie Charlotte Amélie Gilone Le Veneur de Tillières in 1920. * Marie Anatole Louise ''Élisabeth'' de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1860–1952), who married Henry, Count of Greffulhe. * ''Pierre'' Marie de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1862–1913), who married Marthe Mathilde Barbe Werlé, daughter of Alfred Werlé whose family controlled

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. After her death in 1906, he married Jeanne Marie Carraby, the widow of the Duke of San Lorenzo who was a daughter of Pierre Etienne Carraby. * ''Ghislaine'' Marie Anatole Pauline Henriette de Caraman-Chimay (1865–1955), a lady-in-waiting to Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians who died unmarried. * Marie Joséphine Anatole de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1870–1961), who married Charles Camille Pochet. * ''Alexandre'' Marie de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1873–1951), who married Catherine Hélène, Princess Bassaraba de Brancovan, a daughter of Prince Grégoire, After her death in Paris in 1929, he married Mathilde Stuyvesant ( Löwenguth) in 1933, a French widow of an American heir who had previously been married to a Dutch count. After the death his wife in 1884, he married Marie ''Mathilde'' Lucia Christiana Francisca Paula de Barandiaran (1862–1919), a daughter of Grégoire de Barandiaran and Isabel Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, in 1889. They did not have any issue. The Prince de Chimay died on 29 March 1892 in Brussels, and was succeeded in his title by his eldest son,

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. After his death, his widow married Jacques Benoit Théophile, Comte de Liedekerke de Pailhe, with whom she had a daughter.

References

External links

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Belgian diplomats 19th-century Belgian politicians Ambassadors of Belgium to the Holy See Governors of Hainaut (province)