The House of Wimpffen is the name of a noble family originally from
Germany. They became prominent in the
Kingdom of Bohemia during the
Habsburg rule
The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...
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Notable members
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Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen
Baron Emmanuel Felix de Wimpffen (13 September 181126 February 1884) was a French soldier and general of Austrian descent.
Biography
A member of the Wimpffen family, de Wimpffen was born in Laon, the illegitimate son of Baron Félix Victor C ...
(german: Emmanuel Felix Graf von Wimpffen; 1811–1884), French general
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Franz (Emil Lorenz Heeremann) Graf von Wimpffen (1797, Prague - 1870), Austrian general
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Maximilian von Wimpffen
Maximilian, Freiherr (Baron) von Wimpffen (1770–1854) was a military commander who served in the Austrian army during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Although a competent field commander, he was above all noted for his excellen ...
(1770–1854), Austrian general during the
Napoleonic Wars
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Leontius (von Wimpffen)
Bishop Leontius (secular name Vladimir Fyodorovich von Wimpffen, russian: Владимир Фёдорович фон Вимпфен, born Baron Leopold von Wimpffen; 18 May 1873 in Moscow – 6 June 1919 in Astrakhan) was a bishop of the Russi ...
(1873-1919), Russian bishop murdered by the Bolsheviks
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Pauline von Wimpffen, German writer and Catholic activist
See also
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Bad Wimpfen
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János L. Wimpffen (born 1950s, Graz), an American motorsport historian and writer of Austro-Hungarian descent
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