Karel Josef von Clary und Aldringen (12 December 1777 – 31 May 1831) was an Austro-Hungarian prince.

Early life

Karel Josef was born on 12 December 1777 in

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. He was the son of Johann Nepomuk, 2nd Prince of Clary-Aldringen (1753–1826), and Princess Marie Christine Leopoldine de Ligne (1757–1830). His younger brother was Count Franz Moritz Joseph Mathaeus von Clary und Aldringen, who never married. His paternal grandparents were Franz Wenzel, 1st Prince of Clary-Aldringen, and Maria Franziska Josepha von

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(a daughter of Count Herman Frederik von Hohenzollern-Hechingen and, his second wife, Countess Maria Josepha of

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). His maternal grandparents were

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, and Princess ''Franziska'' Xaveria Maria von Liechtenstein (a daughter of Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein). His maternal grandmother, Princess Franziska, was the elder sister of the reigning Prince, Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein.

Career

During the

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, the family's Teplitz Palace was the headquarters of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon, uniting the monarchs of

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and

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. There was first signed the triple alliance against

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that led to the coalition victory at the nearby

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and eventually instated the

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, officially signed in Paris on 26 September 1815.Alfons Clary-Aldringen, Memoirs: „Geschichten eines alten Österreichers“ ''(History of an old Austrian)'', Ullstein publishers, Frankfurt 1977, Upon the death of his father in 1826, he succeeded as the 3rd Prince of Clary-Aldringen. The title had been created in 1767, for his grandfather, then ''

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'' Wenzel von Clary und Aldringen, the Imperial Treasurer (and

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's private council member), who was raised to princely rank. Members of the family became hereditary members of the Austrian '' Reichsrat'' (Imperial Council). From that date, the princely title of ''

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'' (Prince) von Clary und Aldringen was borne by the head of the family, who was styled as '' Durchlaucht'' (Serene Highness). Junior members bore the title of ''

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'' (Count) or ''Gräfin'' (Countess) von Clary und Aldringen and were styled as ''

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'' (Illustrious Highness).Diana Mosley, Prince and Princess Clary. ''Loved Ones'', London 1985, pp. 132–153,

Personal life

On 26 October 1802 at Neuhof, Karel Josef was married to his first cousin, Countess Marie "Aloisie" Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin (1777–1864), the daughter of Johann Rudolf Chotek von Chotkov und Vojnín and Countess Maria Sidonia von Clary und Aldringen (second daughter of the 1st Prince of Clary and Aldringen). Together, they were the parents of: * Countess ''Mathilde Christina'' Josepha Sidonia Christina Maria von Clary und Aldringen (1806–1896), who married, as his second wife, Prince Wilhelm Radziwiłł, 14th Duke of

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, the eldest son of Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł, and

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(a niece of the Prussian King

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), in 1832. * Count ''Alfred'' Ernst Johann Nepomuk Desiderius Franz Borgia von Clary und Aldringen (1807–1809), who died young. * Countess ''Euphemie'' Flora Francisca Xaveria Maria Catharine von Clary und Aldringen (1808–1867), who died unmarried. * Countess ''Leontine'' Francisca ''Gabriëlle'' Christina von Clary und Aldringen (1811–1890), who married Prince

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, a younger brother of Prince Wilhelm Radziwiłł, in 1832. * ''Edmund'' Moritz Blasius Peregrinus von Clary und Aldringen (1813–1894), who married Countess Elisabeth-Alexandrine de Ficquelmont, a daughter of Count

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and Countess Dorothea de Ficquelmont (a daughter of Count Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen), in 1841. * Countess Theodora ''Felicitas'' Maria Sidonia Josepha Dionisia von Clary und Aldringen (1815–1902), who married Count Robert of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz, a son of Franz Joseph, Hereditary Prince of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz (as eldest son and heir apparent of Karl Joseph, 1st Prince of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz). Count Robert's elder brother was Hugo, 2nd Prince of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz. Karel Josef died on 31 May 1831, also in Vienna. As his eldest son died in childhood, he was succeeded by his second son,

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, who bought the Palazzo Clary in

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in 1855.

Descendants

Through his daughter Mathilde Christina, he was a grandfather of the Prussian general Prince Antoni Wilhelm Radziwiłł (1833–1904), who married Marie de Castellane, the daughter Henri de Castellane and

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. Through his son Edmund, he was posthumously a grandfather of Austro-Hungarian diplomat, Prince Siegfried von Clary-Aldringen (1848−1929),William D. Godsey, ''Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War'',

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, 1999, p. 186f. and Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen (1852−1928), who briefly served as

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