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.
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]