Beaufort-Spontin
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The House of Beaufort-Spontin is a noble family which held prominent posts under the
Frederic August Alexander of Beaufort-Spontin, who became the first Duke of Beaufort-Spontin in 1782.[3] Cadets bear the title of Count or Countess. The members of this family now reside in Austria, but their origins are in territories in what is today Belgium.[4][5]
History
The family is descended from the Counts of Beaufort, who held land near
Freÿr in the early 15th century.[5]
In 1783, the 1st Duke of Beaufort-Spontin married María Leopoldina Álvarez de Toledo y Salm-Salm, 10th Marchioness of Almenara, in Paris. She was the daughter of the 12th Duke of Infantado and of Princess María Ana Victoria of Salm-Salm, a grand-daughter of the Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort.[6] This made Frederic August a brother-in-law of Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo, who was Prime Minister of Spain. The second child of Beaufort and María Leopoldina would marry the 10th Duke de Osuna, and their children would eventually become the 11th and 12th Dukes of Osuna.
Dukes of Beaufort-Spontin
- Sixth Coalition Powers in 1814. He was also President of the Privy Council, Chamberlain, and Grand Marshal of the Court of King William I of the Netherlands.[7][1]
- Frederic Louis Ladislas, 2nd Duke of Beaufort-Spontin (1809–1834).[8]
- Alfred Charles August, 3rd Duke of Beaufort-Spontin (1816–1888),[9] son of the first duke's second marriage to Countess Ernestine of Starhemberg, became a hereditary member of Austria's House of Lords, receiving the title of Prince von Beaufort and the style of Serene Highness in 1876.[1]
- Friedrich Georg Maria Anton Michael, 4th Duke of Beaufort-Spontin (1843–1916), was the son of Duke Alfred by his first wife, Pauline de Forbin-Janson. Although born in Brussels, he died on the family's entailed Bohemian estate of Petschau during World War I. By his marriage to Princess Marie Mélanie de Ligne he was the father of the fifth duke.[1]
- Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918, having in 1910 wed Countess Marie-Adelheid von Silva-Tarouca, by whom he was the father of the sixth duke. He died in Graz, Austria.[1]
- Steiermark.[1]
- Graz University, and lives in Steiermark, Austria. As neither he nor his brother, Count Christian de Beaufort-Spontin (born 1947), has sons by their marriages, the ducal and princely titles have no heirs in the next generation.[1]
Gallery of castles
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Ruins of Beaufort Castle, Luxembourg -
The castle ofFreÿr seen from the Meuse -
Namur -
Spontin Castle, Yvoir, Namur -
Bečov Castle (formerly Petschau Castle) in Bečov nad TeplouCzech Republic
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i ghda 2007, p. 7370-373.
- ^ De Stein d'Altenstein 1867, p. 9.
- ^ Goethals 1859, p. 294.
- ^ Beaufort-Spontin 2009.
- ^ a b Eupedia staff 2014.
- ^ Juan Miguel Soler Salcedo, Nobleza Española. Grandezas Inmemoriales 2ª edición, Vision Libros (Apr., 2020), p. 295
- ^ Poplimont 1863, p. 445.
- ^ Gotha 1834, p. 75.
- ^ De Stein d'Altenstein 1848, p. 60.
References
- Beaufort-Spontin, Frederic (8 November 2009), A word from Frederic, Castle and Gardens of Freÿr / Meuse (Belgium), archived from the original on 2020-11-26, retrieved 2017-05-01 — includes a photograph of the 7th Duke
- De Stein d'Altenstein, Isidore, ed. (1848), Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique (in French), Brussels: Auguste Decq, p. 60
- De Stein d'Altenstein, Isidore, ed. (1867), Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique (in French), Brussels: Auguste Decq, p. 9
- Eupedia staff (2014), "Beaufort-Spontin", History of the ducal and princely families in Belgium, Eupedia.com
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (in German) (Fürstliche Häuser XVI ed.), Limburg an der Lahn: C.A. Starke Verlag, 2007, pp. 370–373, ISBN 978-3-7980-0841-0
- Goethals, Félix-Victor (1859), "Frédéric-Auguste-Alexandre, duc de Beaufort-Spontin", Histoire généalogique de la maison de Beaufort-Spontin (in French), Brussels: Polack-Duvivier, p. 294
- Almanach de Gotha (in French), Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1834, p. 75
- Poplimont, Ch (1863), La Belgique héraldique: recueil historique, chronologique, généalogique et biographique complet de toutes les maisons nobles reconnues de la Belgique (in French), vol. 1, Brussels, pp. 445-453
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