Margit Teleki Explained

Margit Teleki
Countess of Szék
Full Name:Countess Margit Teleki de Szék
Noble Family:House of Teleki
Father:Count Sándor Teleki de Szék
Mother:Countess Jozefina Teleki de Szék
Spouse:Count Károly Khuen-Héderváry de Hédervár
Birth Date:2 December 1860
Birth Place:Gyömrő, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire
Death Place:Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Issue:Count Sándor Khuen-Héderváry
Count Károly Khuen-Héderváry Jr.

Countess Margit Teleki de Szék (2 December 1860  - 26 January 1922) was a Hungarian noblewoman, wife of Prime Minister Károly Khuen-Héderváry.

Family

She was born into a wealthy aristocratic Transylvanian family in 1860 as the third child of Sándor (1829–1875) and Jozefina Teleki (1838–1915). One of her brothers was József, a Member of Parliament.

Margit Teleki married Khuen-Héderváry on 6 September 1880. They had two children: Sándor (1881–1946)[1] and Károly the Younger (1888–1960).[2]

She died on 26 January 1922 in Budapest, four years after her husband's death.

Sources

Notes and References

  1. http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu/ha/kulpol/khuen.html 1
  2. Magyar életrajzi lexikon I. (A–K). ed. Ágnes Kenyeres. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó. 1967. p. 914.