Marie de Castellane

Marie de Castellane
Princess Radziwiłł
Born(1840-02-19)19 February 1840
Château de Rochecotte, Saint-Patrice, France
Died10 July 1915(1915-07-10) (aged 75)
Kleinitz Palace, Lower Silesia, German Empire
Spouse
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(m. 1857; died 1904)​
IssuePrince Jerzy Fryderyk Radziwiłł
Princess Elżbieta Matylda Radziwiłł
Princess Helena Augusta Radziwiłł
Prince Stanisław Wilhelm Radziwiłł
Names
Marie Dorothée Élisabeth de Castellane
HouseCastellane
FatherHenri de Castellane
MotherPauline de Talleyrand-Périgord

Princess Marie Radziwill (born Marie Dorothée Élisabeth de Castellane; 19 February 1840  – 10 July 1915) was a French noblewoman, a member of the house of Castellane. The famous dandy Boni de Castellane was her nephew.

Early life

Portrait of Marie, by William Pape, 1897

Marie was born on 19 February 1840 at the Château de Rochecotte. She was the daughter of French aristocrats Henri de Castellane, marquis de Castellane, and Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord.[1] She had one brother, Antoine de Castellane, who married Madeleine Le Clerc de Juigné and had three children that survived to adulthood, Boniface de Castellane (who married American railroad heiress Anna Gould),[2][3] Jean de Castellane (who married his cousin Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord, the former wife of Prince Charles Egon IV, Prince of Fürstenberg),[4] and Stanislas de Castellane (who married Natalia Terry y Sanchez, sister of architect Emilio Terry).[5]

Her paternal grandparents were Boniface de Castellane, Marshal of France, and Louise Cordélia Eucharis Greffulhe (the sister of French banker and politician Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe). Her maternal grandparents were Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord, the 2nd Duke of Dino, and Princess Dorothea of Courland, the Duchess of Dino.[6]

Memoir

In 1906 she published the Souvenirs of her grandmother, the duchesse de Dino and, in 1909, a Chronique de 1831 à 1862, also based on the duchess's papers. Her own memoirs were published in 1931 as Souvenirs de la princesse Radziwill (née Castellane) 1840–1873. Une française à la cour de prusse ("Memoirs of Princess Radziwill, née Castellane, 1840–1873: A Frenchwoman at the Court of Prussia").[1]

Personal life

Marie's eldest son, Prince Jerzy
Prince Jerzy's wife, Maria Róża Branicka

On 3 October 1857, Marie married Prince Antoni Wilhelm Radziwiłł (1833–1904),[7] son of Prince Wilhelm Paweł Radziwiłł and Countess Mathilde of Clary und Aldringen, at Sagan. Prince Radziwiłł, a descendant of the powerful magnate family of Radziwiłł, who owned large estates in Silesia and Posen, as well as Russia, was a member of the Prussian House of Lords and general à la suite of William I, German Emperor.[a] Together, Antoni and Marie had four children:

Prince Radziwiłł died in Berlin in 1904.[7] Marie died at the Kleinitz Palace in Lower Silesia in July 1915.[12]

Radziwill Castle

Radziwill Castle

She spent a large part of her life in Berlin, where (according to Abel Hermant) she was "the Apis bull in person and the queen of Berlin".[1] From 1881 to 1886, she took on the restoration of the Radziwill castle at Nieswiez (Nesvizh, Belarus), allowing her to save its archives and library, add a terrace flanked by Neo Gothic tourelles and redesign the park in the English style (1878–1911).[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Prince Antoni Wilhelm Radziwiłł was related to the Prussian royal family through King Frederick William I, whose granddaughter Princess Louise was married to Antoni's grandfather Antoni Henryk, Governor of Posen.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Günter Erbe: Das vornehme Berlin. Fürstin Marie Radziwill und die großen Damen der Gesellschaft 1871–1918. Köln u.a.: Böhlau, 2015.
  2. ^ "Died". Time. 8 December 1961. Archived from the original on 4 February 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2007. Anna Gould, Duchess of Talleyrand, 83, daughter of Rail Tycoon Jay Gould and one of the first of the American heiresses whose marriages infused new blood—and new money—into Europe's sagging aristocracy; of a heart attack; in Paris. Wed to Count Boniface de Castellane in 1895, Anna Gould divorced him after an 11-year phantasmagoria of pink marble palaces and $150,000 parties during which the Parisian gay blade skated through more than half of her $13.5 million inheritance. Two years later, she wed the fifth Duke of Talleyrand, a descendant of the wily French diplomatist whose machinations shaped post-Napoleonic Europe, lived with him for 29 years until his death in 1937.
  3. ^ "Duchesse de Talleyrand Is Dead. Youngest daughter of Jay Gould". The New York Times. 30 November 1961. Retrieved 6 August 2008. The Duchesse de Talleyrand-Périgord, daughter of the late Jay Gould, American railroad financier, died today in Paris where she passed most of her life.
  4. ^ de Massue de Ruvigny Ruvigny and Raineval (9th marquis of), Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe. Harrison & Sons. p. 462.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Stanislas Castellane (1875-1959) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France". data.bnf.fr (in French). Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  6. ^ de), Dorothée Dino (duchesse; (Fürstin), Marie Dorothea Elisabeth de Castellane Radziwill (1910). Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino: 1836-1840. Scribner.
  7. ^ a b "PRINCE RADZIWILL DEAD.; Head of the Lithuanian Branch of the Family -- Born in 1833". The New York Times. 17 December 1904. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  8. ^ Łopatecki, Karol; Walczak, Wojciech (7 September 2018). The history of Branicki Palace until 1809. The influence of "Versailles of Podlasie" on the development of Białystok. Instytut Badań nad Dziedzictwem Kulturowym Europy. ISBN 978-83-64103-55-1. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  9. ^ Wasylewski, Stanisław (1959). Czterdzieści lat powodzenia: przebieg mojego życia (in Polish). Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. p. 455. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  10. ^ a b Potocka, Maria Małgorzata z Radziwiłłów Franciszkowa (1983). Z moich wspomnień: pamiętnik (in Polish). Katolicki Ośrodek Wydawniczy Veritas. pp. 379, 482–483. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  11. ^ The Book of Kings: The families. Quadrangle/New York Times Book Company. 1973. p. 576. ISBN 978-0-8129-0280-8. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  12. ^ "PRINCESS RADZIWILL DIES IN GERMANY; Widow of Prince Anton Succumbs at Her Kleinitz Palace at 75 Years, ONCE LEADER IN SOCIETY Her Grandson Married Dorothy Deacon -- Visited on Birthdays by Emperor William". The New York Times. 13 July 1915. Retrieved 7 March 2022.