Hieronim Mikołaj Radziwiłł Explained

Honorific Prefix:His Serene Highness
Hieronim Mikołaj Radziwiłł
Prince Radziwiłł
Full Name:Hieronim Mikołaj Melchior Konstanty Dominik Maria ks. Radziwiłł na Nieświeżu h. Trąby
Birth Date:6 January 1885
Birth Place:Cannes, France
Death Place:Gulag, near Luhansk, Soviet Union
House-Type:Szlachta
Noble Family:Radziwiłł
Father:Dominik Maria Radziwiłł
Mother:María Dolores de Agramonte y Zayas-Zamudio
Spouse:
Issue:Princess Maria Teresa Radziwiłł
Prince Dominic Rainer Radziwiłł
Prince Karol Jerome Radziwiłł
Prince Albert Radziwiłł
Princess Eleonore Radziwiłł
Prince Leon Jerome Radziwiłł

Prince Hieronim Mikołaj Radziwiłł (6 January 1885 – 6 April 1945) was a Polish nobleman, landlord in Balice. Radziwiłł was a great-grandson of Prince Maciej Radziwiłł. He and his children carried the style of Serene Highness.

Early life

Hieronim Mikołaj "Jerome" Radziwiłł was born on 6 January 1885 at Cannes in France. He was a son of Prince Dominik Maria Radziwiłł (1852–1938) and Doña María Dolores de Agramonte y Zayas-Zamudio (1854–1920). Among his siblings were Princess Dolores Radziwiłł, and Princess Isabella Radziwiłł.[1]

His paternal grandparents were Konstanty Radziwiłł and Adela Karnitska (a descendant of Justynian Szczytt).[2] He was a great-grandson of Prince Maciej Radziwiłł.[3] His maternal grandparents were Francisco de Agramonte Cortijo and María de los Dolores de la Torre Dolores de Agramonte, natives of Santiago de Cuba where they were large landowners.[4] [5]

He graduated from the gymnasium in Feldkirch before he began studying law at the Jagiellonian University in 1904. He later moved to the Agricultural College at the university.

Career

In between the World Wars, he was primarily involved in agriculture, breeding and forestry on his Balice estate which had been built by his father.[6] He owned shares in a company producing glass and clay products. Although he was not involved in politics, he was an honorary member of the Supreme Council of the Party of National Monarchists.

During World War II, he was involved in the underground activity of the "Uprawa" gentry organization, which provided funding and food for the Home Army. He was arrested by the Soviet authorities in February 1945 and deported, along with 2,000 prisoners, to a NKVD Gulag labor camp during the Soviet occupation of Poland,[7] where he died shortly after his arrival.

Personal life

On 16 January 1909, Prince Radziwiłł married Archduchess Renata of Austria (1888–1935) in Żywiec. Renata was a daughter of Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany and Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria. A first cousin of King Alphonso XIII of Spain, she was a member of the Teschen branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. Upon her marriage to Prince Radziwiłł in 1909, she renounced her titles as Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Bohemia, Hungary, and Tuscany.[8] Before her death on 9 December 1935, they were the parents of six children:[9]

After the death of his first wife, the Prince remarried to his cousin, Princess Jadwiga Aniela Radziwiłł in January 1937.[14]

Prince Radziwiłł died at the Gulag, near Luhansk on 6 April 1945. He was buried in a wooden coffin in the steppe near the labor camp.

Descendants

Through his eldest son's first marriage to Princess Eugénie, he was a grandfather of Princess Tatiana Radziwiłł (b. 1939), who married Dr. Jean Henri Fruchaud in 1966,[15] and Prince George Radziwiłł (1942–2001). Through his eldest son's second marriage to Lidia, he was posthumously grandfather of Princess Renata Radziwiłł (1954–2014), who married Swiss banker André Wagnière in 1976,[16] Princess Louise Radziwiłł (b. 1956), who married Sicilian aristocrat Don Antonio Moncada, Nobile dei Principi of Paternò in 1987, and Princess Lyda Radziwiłł (b. 1959), who married Roman aristocrat Prince Innocenzo Odescalchi in 1991.

Through her daughter Eleonore's second marriage, he was posthumously a grandfather of Remy de Froidcourt (b. 1960).[17]

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Notes and References

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  2. News: Emerson . Gloria . Gloria Emerson . For Polish Nobility, Power and Ease Are Gone . 9 March 2022 . . 15 January 1967.
  3. Polski Słownik Biograficzny t. 30 s. 190.
  4. News: Obituary Notes -- Senora Dolores de Zayas de Agramonte . 9 March 2022 . . 13 October 1899.
  5. Book: Exodus Warszawy: Pamiętniki. Relacje . 1992 . Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy . 978-83-06-01589-8 . 743 . 9 March 2022 . pl.
  6. Book: Lednicki . Wacław . Reminiscences: The Adventures of a Modern Gil Blas during the Last War . 18 March 2019 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG . 978-3-11-139662-0 . 86–87 . 9 March 2022 . en.
  7. News: EDEN ASKS LUBLIN NOT TO PERSECUTE; Announces Britain Has Won Release of Mme. Arciszewska by Russian Government . 9 March 2022 . . 8 March 1945.
  8. Book: Raineval . Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et . Raineval . Melville Henry Massue Marquis of Ruvigny and . The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who," of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe . 1914 . Burke's Peerage . 978-0-85011-028-9 . 1191–1192 . 9 March 2022 . en.
  9. http://www.sejm-wielki.pl/b/dw.8652 Hieronim Mikołaj Melchior ks. Radziwiłł na Nieświeżu h. Trąby
  10. News: TIMES . Wireless to THE NEW YORK . PRINCESS EUGENIE OF GREECE A BRIDE; Married in Paris to the Polish Prince, Dominique Radziwill . 9 March 2022 . . 31 May 1938.
  11. News: Tribune . Special Cable to The Chicago . W.M. FLEITMANN DIES IN PARIS AT 70; Was a Director of Wholesale Dry Goods Concern Founded Here by Father. FIRM ACTED AS BANKERS Financed Other Textile Companies --Mr. Fleitmann Prominent in American Colony of Paris. . 9 March 2022 . . 25 March 1929.
  12. Book: Ziolkowska-Boehm . Aleksandra . Untold Stories of Polish Heroes from World War II . 2 November 2017 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-0-7618-6984-9 . 100 . 9 March 2022 . en.
  13. News: TIMES . Wireless to THE NEW YORK . POLISH PRINCE SAVED FROM DEATH IN SOVIET; Radziwill Says Italian King and Queen Pleaded for Him . 9 March 2022 . . 27 March 1940.
  14. https://web.archive.org/web/20131215193257/http://genealogia.grocholski.pl/gd/osoba.php?id=005533 Genealogia Grocholski
  15. Brewer-Ward, Daniel A. (also known as Daniel Willis), The House of Habsburg: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Empress Maria Theresia, Clearfield Co., Inc., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1966, p. 166.
  16. Web site: RootsWeb: GEN-ROYAL-L RE: Renata Radziwill. 28 November 2016.
  17. Book: Bozec . Christine Le . Wauters . Eric . Pour la Révolution française: Receuil d'études en hommage à Claude Mazauric . 1998 . Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre . 978-2-87775-820-8 . 9 March 2022 . fr.