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Countess Eleonóra Zichy de Zich et Vásonkeő (28 March 1867 – 31 October 1945) was a Hungarian noblewoman and a landowner.

Early life and ancestry

She was born in

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, into an old House of Zichy, as the second daughter Count Rezső Zichy de Zich et Vásonkeö (1833-1893) and his wife, Countess Jacqueline Péchy Péchy de Péch-Ujfalu (1846-1915). Her maternal grandfather was Count Emanuel ''Manó'' Péchy de Péch-Ujfalu (1817-1889),

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First marriage and issue

She married

Tivadar Andrássy Count Tivadar Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka (10 July 1857 – 13 May 1905) was a Hungarian politician, Member of Parliament, painter, and art collector. He served as a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the National M ...

, son of

Gyula Andrássy Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka (, 8 March 1823 – 18 February 1890) was a Hungarian statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary (1867–1871) and subsequently as List of foreign ministers of Austria-Hungar ...

on 24 June 1885; they had four children: * Ilona (1886–1967); wife of Count József Cziráky de Czirák et Dénesfalva; emigrated to

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in 1961 * Borbála (1890–1968), wife of

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György Pallavicini * Katinka (1892–1985), ''Red Countess'', wife of Count

Mihály Károlyi Count Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi de Nagykároly (; ; or in short simple form: Michael Károlyi; 4 March 1875 – 19 March 1955) was a Hungarian politician who served as a leader of the short-lived and unrecognized First Hungarian Re ...

* Klára (1898–1941), Communist partisan

Second marriage

In 1909, four years after her husband's death, Eleonóra Zichy married to her former brother-in-law,

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Gyula Andrássy the Younger Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka the Younger (; 30 June 1860 – 11 June 1929) was a Hungarian politician. Biography The second son of Count Gyula Andrássy and Countess Katinka Kendeffy, the younger Andrássy becam ...

, brother of Tivadar.

References

External links

* Iván Nagy: ''Magyarország családai czimerekkel és nemzedékrendi táblákkal. I-XIII.'' Bp., 1857–1868 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zichy, Eleonora 1867 births 1945 deaths Hungarian nobility Eleonora People from Austria-Hungary