Marianne, Dowager Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn,In 1919

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lost their privileges in Germany, hereditary titles were to be legally borne thereafter only as part of the surname, according t
Article 109
of the

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. (born Baroness Marianne von Mayr-Melnhof; 9 December 1919) is a German noble, the mother of Alexander, 7th Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (born 1943).Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser XIX. "Sayn-Wittgenstein". C.A. Starke Verlag, 2011, pp. 331-334. (German). .

Biography

Marianne was born on 9 December 1919 in

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, the eldest daughter of Baron Friedrich Mayr von Melnhof (1892–1956), owner of the Glanegg Castle near Salzburg, and his wife, Countess Maria-Anna von

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(1897–1983), granddaughter of

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, head of a

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branch of the imperial

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. The Mayr von Melnhof family were Catholic

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ns since the 15th century and, having become industrialists, were

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with the title of Baron in Austria in 1859.Enache, Nicolas. ''La Descendance de Marie-Therese de Habsburg''. ICC, Paris, 1996. pp. 292, 300-301. (French).

Marriage and children

Baroness Marianne married Ludwig, 6th Prince zu

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn was a county of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, comprising the lands of the region of Sayn. It was created as a partition of Sayn-Wittgenstein in 1607, although it was not until the next year that it obtained fully the C ...

on 12 March 1942 in Glanegg, who was born in 1915 and died accidentally at Sayn in 1962. They had five children: *Princess Yvonne (born 9 December 1942) married firstly in 1962 Alfons, Count von Coreth zu Coredo und Starkenberg (born 1930), a photographer who served as honorary Thai consul in Salzburg (divorced 1970), and married secondly in 1976 physician Klaus Bolzano,

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von Kronstätt (born 1936), and has issue from both marriages; *Alexander, 7th Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (born 22 November 1943) married Countess Gabriela von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (born 16 October 1950) in 1969, and they have issue; *Princess Elisabeth (born 1 April 1948) married bank manager Hasso, Baron Schuler von Senden (born 30 January 1943) in 1970, and they have issue; *Princess Teresa (born 25 April 1952) married firstly in 1973 ''Don'' Luis de Figueroa y Griffith, Count of Quintanilla (born 5 February 1950) (divorced 1983), son of author Aline Griffith, Dowager Countess of Romanones, and married secondly attorney Count Karl-Erbo von Kageneck in 1983, and has issue from both marriages; *Prince Peter (born 22 January 1954) married in 1993 actress Sunnyi Melles (born 7 Oct 1958), daughter of Austrian orchestral conductor

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and Judith von Rohonczy. They have issue.

Ancestry

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