Marie de Castellane explained
Princess Marie Radziwill (born Marie Dorothée Élisabeth de Castellane; 19 February 1840 10 July 1915) was a French noblewoman, a member of the house of Castellane. The famous dandy Boni de Castellane was her nephew.
Early life
Marie was born on 19 February 1840 at the Château de Rochecotte. She was the daughter of French aristocrats Henri de Castellane, marquis de Castellane, and Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord. She had one brother, Antoine de Castellane, who married Madeleine Le Clerc de Juigné and had three children that survived to adulthood, Boniface de Castellane (who married American railroad heiress Anna Gould),[1] [2] Jean de Castellane (who married his cousin Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord, the former wife of Prince Charles Egon IV, Prince of Fürstenberg),[3] and Stanislas de Castellane (who married Natalia Terry y Sanchez, sister of architect Emilio Terry).[4]
Her paternal grandparents were Boniface de Castellane, Marshal of France, and Louise Cordélia Eucharis Greffulhe (the sister of French banker and politician Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe). Her maternal grandparents were Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord, the 2nd Duke of Dino, and Princess Dorothea of Courland, the Duchess of Dino.[5]
Memoir
In 1906 she published the Souvenirs of her grandmother, the duchesse de Dino and, in 1909, a Chronique de 1831 à 1862, also based on the duchess's papers. Her own memoirs were published in 1931 as Souvenirs de la princesse Radziwill (née Castellane) 1840–1873. Une française à la cour de prusse ("Memoirs of Princess Radziwill, née Castellane, 1840–1873: A Frenchwoman at the Court of Prussia").[6]
Personal life
On 3 October 1857, Marie married Prince Antoni Wilhelm Radziwiłł (1833–1904),[7] son of Prince Wilhelm Paweł Radziwiłł and Countess Mathilde of Clary und Aldringen, at Sagan. Prince Radziwiłł, a descendant of the powerful magnate family of Radziwiłł, who owned large estates in Silesia and Posen, as well as Russia, was a member of the Prussian House of Lords and general à la suite of William I, German Emperor. Together, Antoni and Marie had four children:
- Prince Jerzy Fryderyk Radziwiłł (1860–1914), who married Maria Róża Branicka (1863–1941), daughter of Władysław Michał Branicki, owner of a large estate in Biała Cerkiew.[8]
- Princess Elżbieta Matylda Radziwiłł (1861–1950), who married Count Roman Potocki, a son of Count Alfred Józef Potocki, Minister-President of Austria, and Princes Maria Klementyna Sanguszko.[9] [10]
- Princess Helena Augusta Radziwiłł (1874–1958), who married Count Józef Mikołaj Potocki, another son of Count Alfred Józef Potocki.[10]
- Prince Stanisław Wilhelm Radziwiłł (1880–1920), who married Princess Dolores Radziwiłł, a daughter of Prince Dominik Maria Radziwiłł and sister of Prince Hieronim Mikołaj Radziwiłł (who married Archduchess Renata of Austria).[11]
Prince Radziwiłł died in Berlin in 1904.[7] Marie died at the Kleinitz Palace in Lower Silesia in July 1915.[12]
Radziwill Castle
She spent a large part of her life in Berlin, where (according to Abel Hermant) she was "the Apis bull in person and the queen of Berlin".[6] From 1881 to 1886, she took on the restoration of the Radziwill castle at Nieswiez (Nesvizh, Belarus), allowing her to save its archives and library, add a terrace flanked by Neo Gothic tourelles and redesign the park in the English style (1878–1911).[6]
Notes and References
- Died. . https://web.archive.org/web/20110204214422/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895802,00.html . dead . 4 February 2011 . Anna Gould, Duchess of Talleyrand, 83, daughter of Rail Tycoon Jay Gould and one of the first of the American heiresses whose marriages infused new blood—and new money—into Europe's sagging aristocracy; of a heart attack; in Paris. Wed to Count Boniface de Castellane in 1895, Anna Gould divorced him after an 11-year phantasmagoria of pink marble palaces and $150,000 parties during which the Parisian gay blade skated through more than half of her $13.5 million inheritance. Two years later, she wed the fifth Duke of Talleyrand, a descendant of the wily French diplomatist whose machinations shaped post-Napoleonic Europe, lived with him for 29 years until his death in 1937. . . 8 December 1961 . 2007-07-21 .
- News: Duchesse de Talleyrand Is Dead. Youngest daughter of Jay Gould . The Duchesse de Talleyrand-Périgord, daughter of the late Jay Gould, American railroad financier, died today in Paris where she passed most of her life. . The New York Times . 30 November 1961 . 2008-08-06 .
- Book: de Massue de Ruvigny Ruvigny and Raineval (9th marquis of) . Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte . The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe . 1914 . Harrison & Sons . 462 . en.
- Web site: Stanislas Castellane (1875-1959) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. data.bnf.fr. fr. 2018-11-27.
- Book: de). Dorothée Dino (duchesse. (Fürstin). Marie Dorothea Elisabeth de Castellane Radziwill. Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino: 1836-1840. 1910. Scribner. en.
- Günter Erbe: Das vornehme Berlin. Fürstin Marie Radziwill und die großen Damen der Gesellschaft 1871–1918. Köln u.a.: Böhlau, 2015.
- News: PRINCE RADZIWILL DEAD.; Head of the Lithuanian Branch of the Family -- Born in 1833. . 8 March 2022 . . 17 December 1904.
- Book: Łopatecki . Karol . Walczak . Wojciech . The history of Branicki Palace until 1809. The influence of "Versailles of Podlasie" on the development of Białystok . 7 September 2018 . Instytut Badań nad Dziedzictwem Kulturowym Europy . 978-83-64103-55-1 . 9 March 2022 . en.
- Book: Wasylewski . Stanisław . Czterdzieści lat powodzenia: przebieg mojego życia . 1959 . Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich . 455 . 9 March 2022 . pl.
- Book: Potocka . Maria Małgorzata z Radziwiłłów Franciszkowa . Z moich wspomnień: pamiętnik . 1983 . Katolicki Ośrodek Wydawniczy Veritas . 379, 482–483 . 9 March 2022 . pl.
- Book: The Book of Kings: The families . 1973 . Quadrangle/New York Times Book Company . 978-0-8129-0280-8 . 576 . 9 March 2022 . en.
- News: PRINCESS RADZIWILL DIES IN GERMANY; Widow of Prince Anton Succumbs at Her Kleinitz Palace at 75 Years, ONCE LEADER IN SOCIETY Her Grandson Married Dorothy Deacon -- Visited on Birthdays by Emperor William. . 7 March 2022 . . 13 July 1915.
