Heinrich Graf von Taaffe, 12th

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(22 May 1872 – 25 July 1928) was an Austrian landowner who until 1919 held

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s from two different countries: he was a Count (''

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'') in the nobility of Austria and a

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in the

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He was born at

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, the son of Eduard Graf von Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, who had served as Minister-President of Austria from 1879 to 1893 and his wife, Countess Irma Csáky (1833-1895), member of the

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. Under the

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, his name was removed from the roll of the Peers of Ireland by Order of the King in Council on 28 March 1919 for bearing arms against Britain in

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. On 28 April 1919, he lost his title as a Count of Austria-Hungary as well when the newly established Republic of Austria abolished nobility and outlawed the use of noble titles. He married on 22 May 1897, in

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, Maria Magda Fuchs; they had a son:

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(1898–1967). Upon the death of his first wife on 3 January 1918, he remarried to Aglaë Isescu on 22 June 1919 at Ellischau. He died in Vienna in 1928, aged 56.

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