Grégoire Bibesco-Bassaraba
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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 Ottoman ambassador to Britain, and his wife Anna Vogoridès. He was a relative of Romanian ambassador Prince Antoine Bibesco, 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 Joseph, Prince de Caraman-Chimay (married to American heiress Clara Ward). After Princess Hélène's death in 1929, Prince Alexandre married Mathilde Stuyvesant (widow of American millionaire Rutherfurd Stuyvesant). Their home, Villa Bassaraba just west of Évian at Amphion-les-Bains, was a gathering place for music and poetry lovers, including
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, Prince Edmond de Polignac, the Princess de Polignac (formerly Winnaretta Singer, a daughter of Singer sewing machine fortune founder
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), Prince Antoine Bibesco, 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 Sons of princes regnant 19th-century people from the Principality of Wallachia