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| Count and Countess Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg |
The marriage between Count Franz Clemens Gabriel Ludwig Ghislain Maria Schenk von Stauffenberg and Katja Sophia Tegeder took place on September 7 at St. Veit-Michaelskirche in Heiligenstadt.
The officiant was Father Wolfgang Dichgans, the son of Joseph Dichgans and Countess Eleonore von Waldburg-Zeil.
Franz is the son of Count Alexander Otto Philipp Eckart Berthold MariaSchenk von Stauffenberg (1954) and H Ill H Countess Maria-Anna Gabrielle Ghislaine (1960). The groom was born in 1993. He is a great-great nephew of Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg who was executed in 1944 after a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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| Duke Alexander of Oldenburg and Pauline von Pezold |
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| Archduchess Maria and Archduke Simeon of Austria |
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| Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria and her husband, Prince Peter Galitzine |
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| Prince Oskar of Prussia |
Countess Maria Anna is the daughter of the late Paul, Prince von Quadt zu Wykradt und Isny (1930-2011) and HRH Princess Marie-Charlotte of Bavaria (1931-2018), daughter of Duke Albrecht of Bavaria and a granddaughter of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria by his first wife, Duchess Marie Gabriele in Bavaria.
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| Count and Countess Franz Clemens of Waldburg-Zeil |
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| Archduke Christian and Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria |
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| Count Franz (the groom) with his mother, Countess Maria-Anna. Count Antonius Keglevich is the man in front of them |
The reception was held at Schloss Greifenstein, owned by Count Franz's uncle, Count Christoph Schenk von Stauffenberg.
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| Duke Franz of Bavaria, head of the royal house, with his partner Thomas Greinwald. The couple have been together since 1980. |
The wedding guests included Duke Franz von Bayern and his partner, Thomas Greinwald, Archduke Carl Christian and Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria, Archduke Carl Peter of Austria, Archduke Simeon and Archduchess Maria of Austria, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria and her husband, Prince Peter Galitzine, Prince Oskar of Prussia, the Prince and Princess of Quadt zu Wykradt und Isny and their three daughters, Countesses Philippa, Charlotta and Anna, Prince and Princess Erich von Lobkowicz with their son Prince Felix, and daughter, Princess Anna and her husband, Count Albrecht zu Eltz, Princes Josias and Johannes von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Prince and Princess Louis (Helene) von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, along with Helene's parents, Kilian and Christina von Petzold and her sisters, Sophie and Pauline, Count and Countess Franz Clemens von Waldburg Zeil Hohenems with their daughter, Cecilie, Count and Countess Stephan von Waldburg Zeil, Count and Countess Antonius Keglevich, Baroness Carl von Lerchenfeld (Countess Walburga von Waldburg-Zeil) and her sister, Countess Gabriele von Waldburg-Zeil and her husband, Count Bernard de Monseignat, Countesses Elisabeth and Charlotte von Waldburg-Zeil (daughters of the Prince of Waldburg zu Zeil).
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| Hereditary Prince Louis of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg |
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| Count Moritz von Drechsel |
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Baroness Sophie von Elverfeldt, the Hereditary Princess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Pauline von Pezold, and their father, Kilian von Pezold
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All of the photos were taken by a friend, who is the copyright holder. I thank her for allowing me to use the images.
Comparing Franz and Oskar: is there any data set in which you could check what percentage of aristocrats marry other aristocrats and what percentage marry commoners? I'm curious.
ReplyDeleteThey are all commoners. In the UK, Princes and Princesses who are not peers in their own right, are legally commoners -- the only people who are not commoners are the Sovereign and Peers of the realm. Wives and children of peers (children have COURTESY titles) are legally commoners. Online gotha is a good source for genealogical information.
DeleteI doubt it because Franz's title is his surname. There have been no nobility legally in Germany or Austria since 1919.
ReplyDeleteNo, due to GDPR obviously I didn't mean "find that person" websites like in the US. I meant royalists' databases like The Peerage. But I am not aware of one that is searchable in that way.
DeleteThe peerage is not a royalist database but "The goal of this website is to capture in one place all of the members of the inter-connected families of the British peerage."
ReplyDeleteFine, valid point. But I hope I still managed to get my question across? What website would you recommend for genealogy? I may just try to do a count myself, starting with a smaller sample of aristocrats.
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