Joseph de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1836–1892)
Marie-Joseph-Guy-Henry-Philippe de Riquet de Caraman, 18th Prince de Chimay (9 October 1836 – 29 March 1892), was a Belgian diplomat and politician.
The Prince de Chimay | |
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Portrait c. 1890 | |
| Foreign Minister of Belgium | |
| In office 1884–1892 | |
| Preceded by | Alphonse de Moreau |
| Succeeded by | Henri de Mérode-Westerloo |
| Governor of the Province of Hainaut | |
| In office 1870–1878 | |
| Preceded by | Louis Troye |
| Succeeded by | Auguste Wanderpepen |
| Belgian Ambassador to the Holy See | |
| In office 1846–1847 | |
| Preceded by | Charles van den Steen de Jehay |
| Succeeded by | Eugène de Ligne |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Marie-Joseph-Guy-Henry-Philippe de Riquet de Caraman 6 October 1836 Château de Menars, Loir-et-Cher, France |
| Died | 29 March 1892 (aged 55) Brussels, Belgium |
| Political party | Catholic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Marie de Montesquiou-Fezensac (m. 1857; died 1884)Mathilde de Barandiaran (m. 1889; died 1892) |
| Parent(s) | Joseph de Riquet de Caraman Émilie Pellapra |
Early life edit
Prince Joseph was born on 9 October 1836 at the Château de Menars in France.[1] He was the eldest son of Belgian diplomat and industrialist Joseph de Riquet de Caraman, 17th Prince de Chimay,[2] and memoirist Émilie Pellapra, the widow of Comte de Brigode.[3] From his parents' marriage, he had three siblings Emilie de Riquet de Caraman (wife of Frédéric Lagrange), Valentine de Riquet de Caraman (wife of Prince Paul de Bauffremont and Prince George Bibescu) and Eugène de Riquet de Caraman (who married Louise de Graffenried-Villars).[1] From his mother's first marriage, he had an elder half-brother, Henri, Marquis of Brigode who was the Mayor of Romilly (and married Annette du Hallay-Coëtquen).[4]
His paternal grandparents were François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet, 16th Prince de Chimay, and Thérésa de Cabarrus, one of the leaders of Parisian social life during the Directory. His maternal grandparents were Françoise-Marie LeRoy and a wealthy financier Henri de Pellapra, though Émilie claimed to be a daughter of Napoleon.[5][6] His niece, Hélène Marie de Riquet de Caraman, married John Francis Charles, 7th Count de Salis-Soglio.[4]
Career edit
The Prince de Chimay served as the Belgian Ambassador to the Holy See from 1846 to 1847. A member of the Catholic Party, he later served as the governor of the province of Hainaut from 1870 to 1878 and Foreign Minister of Belgium from 1884 until his death in 1892.[7]
Personal life edit
In 1857, he married Marie Joséphine Anatole de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1834–1884), a daughter of Viscount Napoleon de Montesquiou-Fézensac and Anne Elisabeth Cuiller Perron (a daughter of Gen. Pierre Cuillier-Perron).[3] Her brother was the French admiral Bertrand de Montesquiou-Fézenzac.[8] The prince was known to give private concerts, with him on violin and his wife on piano. In memory of one of these at which he had assisted, Franz Liszt dedicated a mass to Caraman-Chimay.[9] Together, they were the parents of six children, including:[4]
- Marie Joseph Anatole Élie de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1858–1937), who married sixteen-year-old American heiress Clara Ward, a daughter of Capt. Eber Brock Ward, in 1890.[10] They divorced in 1897 and,[11][12] after Clara's death,[13][14] he married Anne Marie Charlotte Amélie Gilone Le Veneur de Tillières in 1920.[15]
- Marie Anatole Louise Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1860–1952),[16][17] who married Henry, Count of Greffulhe.[15]
- Pierre Marie de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1862–1913), who married Marthe Mathilde Barbe Werlé, daughter of Alfred Werlé whose family controlled Veuve Clicquot. After her death in 1906, he married Jeanne Marie Carraby, the widow of the Duke of San Lorenzo who was a daughter of Pierre Etienne Carraby.[15]
- Ghislaine Marie Anatole Pauline Henriette de Caraman-Chimay (1865–1955), a lady-in-waiting to Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians who died unmarried.[15]
- Marie Joséphine Anatole de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1870–1961), who married Charles Camille Pochet.[15]
- Alexandre Marie de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1873–1951), who married Catherine Hélène, Princess Bassaraba de Brancovan, a daughter of Prince Grégoire,[18][19] After her death in Paris in 1929, he married Mathilde Stuyvesant (née Löwenguth) in 1933,[20] a French widow of an American heir who had previously been married to a Dutch count.[21]
After the death his wife in 1884, he married Marie Mathilde Lucia Christiana Francisca Paula de Barandiaran (1862–1919), a daughter of Grégoire de Barandiaran and Isabel Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, in 1889.[22] They did not have any issue.[1]
The Prince de Chimay died on 29 March 1892 in Brussels,[23] and was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, Joseph.[1] After his death, his widow married Jacques Benoit Théophile, Comte de Liedekerke de Pailhe, with whom she had a daughter.[15]
References edit
- ^ a b c d "OBITUARY NOTES. | The Prince de Chimay". The New York Times. 30 March 1892. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ Correspondent, Our Own (27 January 1876). "A TEMPTEST IN A TEA-POT.; WHAT CAME OF PRINCE DE CHIMAY'S BALL.TRAITS OF EUROPEAN LIBERALS--WHY FOREIGNERS BECOME IMPERIALISTS OR MONARCHISTS--THE GOVERNOR OF HAINAUT AND HIS WOULD-BE GUESTS--LIBERTY IN A REPUBLICAN SENSE. THE AFFAIR OF PRINCE DE CHIMAY. THE RESULTS OF A BALL. A SHARP RETORT". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ a b Bernier, Théodore (1880). Histoire de la ville de Beaumont (in French). Imp. Dequesne-Masquillier. p. 58. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ a b c Annuaire de la noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe (in French). Bureau de la publication. 1878. pp. 309–310. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ BIBESCO, Mme le Princesse (1921). "UNE FILLE DE NAPOLÉON: ÉMILIE DE PELLAPRA COMTESSE DE BRIGODE, PRINCESSE DE CHIMAY". Revue des Deux Mondes (1829-1971). 62 (2): 319–336. ISSN 0035-1962. JSTOR 44845301.
- ^ Normington, Susan (1993). Napoleon's Children. A. Sutton. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7509-0203-8.
- ^ Weber, William E. (9 November 2004). The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700-1914: Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists. Indiana University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-253-05776-1. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique (in French). J. Perthes. 1859. p. 108. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ Anne de Cossé-Brissac, La Comtesse Greffulhe, coll. « Terre des femmes », Perrin, Paris, 1991, p. 34.
- ^ "THE ELOPING PRINCESS.; She Says She Bade Her Husband Farewell Before Leaving Him". The New York Times. 25 December 1896. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ "DIVORCES GRANTED IN EUROPE.; The Prince de Chimay Free from His Eloping Wife". The New York Times. 3 February 1897. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ "JANOS RIGO REPORTED DEAD.; He Was the Gypsy Who Eloped with the Princess De Chimay". The New York Times. 7 June 1899. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ "CLARA WARD DIES IN ITALY.; Former Princess Chimay, Who Eloped with Rigo, Gypsy Violinist". The New York Times. 19 December 1916. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ "CLARA WARD LEFT $1,124,935 ESTATE; Fortune Is to be Divided Into Trust Funds for Her Husband and Children". The New York Times. 23 December 1916. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f Almanach de Gotha (in French). Johann Paul Mevius sel. Witwe und Johann Christian Dieterich. 1927. p. 578. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ Verhovek, Sam Howe (10 July 1997). "Texas Two-Step In Rococo Palace". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ Friedman, Vanessa (11 November 2015). "When the Famous Dressed Themselves". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ Carter, William C. (2013). Marcel Proust: A Life, with a New Preface by the Author. Yale University Press. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-300-19179-0. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ "Prince Alexandre de Caraman-Chimay and Princess Hélène Bassaraba de Brancovan 1898 Wedding". The Pall Mall Gazette. 25 August 1898. p. 8. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ "PRINCESS CHIMAY DIES IN HOME HERE; The Former Mrs. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant Aided Charity Drive in 1st World War". The New York Times. 11 July 1948. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ "MRS. STUYYESANT IS WED TO PRINCE; Becomes Bride of Alexandre de Caraman-Chimay, Member of an Old Belgian Family. SHE WAS ONCE BARONESS Widow of Noted New Yorker Was Dutch Nobleman's Widow at Marriage 30 Years Ago". The New York Times. 18 August 1933. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ Doria, Francisco Antônio (1999). Caramuru e Catarina: lendas e narrativas sobre a Case da Torre de Gracia d'Avila (in Brazilian Portuguese). Editora Senac. p. 78. ISBN 978-85-7359-125-5. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ "THE PRINCE DE CHIMAY DYING". The New York Times. 25 March 1892. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
External links edit
- Joseph de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay in ODIS - Online Database for Intermediary Structures 2016-04-28 at the Wayback Machine