Metternich - Winneberg

[Marc]

I am readinga book about Prince Clemens von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein and I wanted to start this thread and to know something more about this family,their status and since they got their ''souveriegnity'' at the beginning of the 19th century I would also like to know what were the views from other royal and old noble families about their rise!They made some good matches with Wuerttemberg,Kaunitz...families!

[lancashireladandre]

The last Prince, Paul Metternich was married ( in 1941)to Princess Tatania Ilarionovna Wassiltchikov who survives him.The couple were childless.The Princess wrote fascinating memoirs in 1977 ending with their flight from their Bohemian estates by cart to their famous Rhineland vineyards Schloss Johannesburg which had been heavily bombed during the war but was totally restored in later years.Presumably too the Czech properties were at least partially restored after the fall of the iron curtain.

[lancashireladandre]

Princess Clementine Metternich the daughter-in-law AND grandaughter of the great chancellor and a famous figure in third Empire Paris was the author of several books at the end of her life.There is a short biography of her in one of Meriel Buchanan's books "Victorian Gallery".

[ipflo]

You can find some info about them on the website of their primary residence in Bohemia: Kynzvart

http://www.kynzvart.cz/



Does some one know which Czech properties were restored? I thought only the properties of 'real' Czech noble families were restored to the original owners like for example the princes Lobkowicz and the Kinsky's

ipflo

[Marc]

[Marc]

Photo of Princess Isabel Metternich,born de Silva y Carvajal!Any informations about her?

[MarieCharlotte]

Photo of Princess Isabel Metternich,born de Silva y Carvajal!Any informations about her?

Clemens von Metternich's sixth son Paul Clemens Lothar (1834-1906) was married to Melanie Gräfin Zichy de Zich et Vásonykeö (1843-1925). Their eldest son Clemens-Wenzel (1869-1930) was married to Isabel de Silva y Carvajal. Isabel was born on May 3rd 1880 (Madrid) and died on February 8th 1980 (Madrid).
 

[MarieCharlotte]

The children of Clemens Wenceslaus Nepomuk Lothar, Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg, Chancellor of Austria (1773-1859):

by his first wife Marie Eleonore Pss von Kaunitz-Rietberg  (1875-1825)

1) Marie Leopoldine (1797-1820)
2) Franz (1798-1799)
3) Clemens Eduard (1799-1799)
4) Viktor (1803-1829)
5) Clementine (1804-1820)
6) Leontine (1811-1861)
7) Hermine (1815-1890)

by his second wife Maria Antonia Frn von Leykam (1806-1829)

8.) Richard Clemens Joseph Lothar Hermann (1829-1895)

by his third wife Melanie, Gräfin Zichy (1805-1825)

9) Melanie (1832-1919)
10) Clemens (1833-1833)
11) Paul Clemens Lothar (1834-1906)
12) Maria (1836-1836)
13) Lothar (1837-1904)

[Marc]

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Portrait of Fürst Clemens...

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Portrait of one of his loves Princess Katharina Bagration...

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Their illegitimate daughter Landgräfin Clementine von Blöme...

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