Baron Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen explained

Birth Name:Luitbert Alexander Georg Lionel Alfons Freiherr von Pawel-Rammingen
Birth Date:27 July 1843
Death Date:20 November 1932
Noble Family:Pawel-Rammingen
Spouse:Princess Frederica of Hanover
Father:Karl Julius August Plato Emil, Baron von Pawel-Rammingen
Mother:Luitgarde von Friesen

Baron Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen, (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.

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 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]

Short Title:Naturalization of Luitbert Rammingen Act 1880
Type:Act
Parliament:Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long Title:An Act to naturalize Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons Freiherr Von Pawel Rammingen, and to grant and confer on him all the rights, privileges, and capacities of a natural-horn Subject of Her Majesty the Queen.
Year:1880
Citation:43 Vict. c. 1
Royal Assent:19 March 1880
Collapsed:yes

On 24 April 1880, Pawel-Rammingen married Princess Frederica Sophia Maria, daughter of King George V of Hanover at St George's Chapel, Windsor;[4] he became a naturalised British Subject by 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]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-215280 "Pawel-Rammingen, Baron Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons"
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=I4pVAAAAcAAJ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser
  3. Marquis de Ruvigny, The Nobilies of Europe (London, 1909), p. 18.
  4. Web site: Marriage . St George's Windsor . 5 August 2020.
  5. The Edinburgh Gazette, issue no. 10915, p. 849