Baron Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen

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Baron Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen
BornLuitbert Alexander Georg Lionel Alfons Freiherr von Pawel-Rammingen
27 July 1843
Died20 November 1932
Noble familyPawel-Rammingen
Spouse(s)Princess Frederica of Hanover
FatherKarl Julius August Plato Emil, Baron von Pawel-Rammingen
MotherLuitgarde von Friesen

Baron Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen,

KCH, VD (German: Luitbert Alexander Georg Lionel Alfons Freiherr von Pawel-Rammingen; 27 July 1843 – 20 November 1932) was a German-born nobleman who became a naturalised British subject in 1880 when he married Princess Frederica of Hanover
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Life

Pawel-Rammingen was born on 27 July 1843,[1] the eldest son of Karl Julius August Plato Emil, Baron von Pawel-Rammingen (1807–1886) and his wife Luitgarde von Friesen (b. 1819); he had an elder sister, Anna (b. 1842) who married Oswald von Coburg [de] in 1862, and a younger brother, Baron Paul Julius August Plato Sylvester Albert (b. 1851; known commonly as Albert).[2][3] He succeeded his father to become 2nd Baron in 1886.[3]

Naturalization of Luitbert Rammingen Act 1880
Act of Parliament
43 Vict. c. 1
Dates
Royal assent19 March 1880

On 24 April 1880, Pawel-Rammingen married Princess Frederica Sophia Maria, daughter of King

Act of Parliament on 19 March 1880 (she was also a British princess). In the same year, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) and in 1897, Queen Victoria also appointed him a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO). He was also appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of Hanover (KCH).[1][3][5] In the United Kingdom, he was Honorary Colonel of the 6th Battalion of the Essex Regiment.[1] He became a widower in 1926, and died on 20 November 1932, at the age of 89.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Pawel-Rammingen, Baron Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons", Who Was Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  2. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, vol. 23 (1873), p. 486.
  3. ^ a b c Marquis de Ruvigny, The Nobilies of Europe (London, 1909), p. 18.
  4. ^ "Marriage". St George's Windsor. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  5. ^ The Edinburgh Gazette, issue no. 10915, p. 849