August Ludwig von Senarclens-Grancy

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Luise von Senarclens-Grancy b. von Otting and Fünfstetten (1810–1876)

August Ludwig Freiherr von Senarclens-Grancy (born August 19, 1794 in Etoy Castle in Vaud in French-speaking western Switzerland as Auguste Louis de Senarclens-Grancy; † October 3, 1871 in Heiligenberg Castle ; Jugenheim ) was a German officer and court official. Senarclens-Grancy is considered to be the possible illegitimate father of Prince Alexander of Hesse-Darmstadt and thus the “illegitimate ancestor” of the House of Battenberg / Mountbatten.

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Senarclens-Grancy, who came from an ancient noble family from Vaud, was a son of César-Auguste de Senarclens-Grancy (1763-1836) and his wife Louise Marie de Loriol (1773-1836). His brother Adolf Wilhelm Ferdinand Heinrich von Senarclens-Grancy (1805–1863) was a Hessian diplomat.

After a lengthy military career in which he made it to major general a la suite, he took over the post of head stable master and riding instructor for the Grand Ducal Princes at the end of the 1810s. After 1830 he followed his lover Wilhelmine Luise von Baden , Grand Duchess of Hesse and the Rhine, and took up residence in the former rectory next to the mountain church below Heiligenberg Castle in Jugenheim near Darmstadt.

The wife of the Hessian sovereign, Grand Duke Ludwig II of Hesse and the Rhine , lived after the birth of her two first sons, the heir to the throne Ludwig III. and Prince Karl of Hessen-Darmstadt , separated from their husband. For this circumstance, and because of the historically guaranteed liaison that she led in a kind of second marriage, Senarclens-Grancy is often ascribed the paternity of Wilhelmine Luise's third son, Alexander von Hessen-Darmstadt, the founder of the Battenberg family . For this reason Senarclens-Grancy is sometimes referred to as the "illegitimate ancestor of the House of Battenberg", whose descendants include Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma , the British Prince Consort Prince Philip and the heir to the throne Prince Charles .

Senarclens-Grancy is also assigned illegitimate paternity for Wilhelmine Luise's daughters Elisabeth Karoline (1821–1826) and Marie (1824–1880), who later became the wife of Tsar Alexander II . Another daughter died shortly after giving birth in 1822.

Grand Duchess Luise Wilhelmine died on January 27, 1836. Senarclens-Grancy then married a half-niece of the first Bavarian king, Countess Luise von Otting and Fünfstetten (1810–1876), daughter of Karl Friedrich Stephan von Otting, Fünfstetten and Schönfeld , on November 15 1836. The following children were born from this marriage:

  • Wilhelmine Marie (born August 11, 1837 - † November 22, 1912), Chief Chamberlain to the Grand Duchess
  • Ludwig von Senarclens-Grancy (* June 9, 1839; † February 2, 1910) ⚭ 1870 Amalie Freiin von Löw zu Steinfurth (* April 3, 1852; † August 7, 1936)
  • Marie Wilhelmine (June 9, 1840 - July 6, 1908) ⚭ 1871 Heinrich von Hesse (April 19, 1827 - March 12, 1895), Prussian major general
  • Heinrich Adolf Ludwig (born July 31, 1845) went to Java
  • Albert Ludwig Friedrich (February 9, 1847; † January 20, 1901), Prussian major general, adjutant of the Grand Duke ∞ Barones Antoniette Wilhelmine de Senarclens de Grancy (born January 12, 1852; † January 1814)
  • Constance Marie Wilhelmine (born September 11, 1852) ⚭ 1881 Karl Friedrich von Oertzen (born January 22, 1844 - † November 9, 1914)

literature

  • Günter Baisch and Claudia Schäfer, " Jugenheim Der Heiligenberg und die Battenberger", Verkehrs- und Verschönerungsverein Jugenheim 1863 eV, Seeh.-Jugenheim 2011, without ISBN
  • Hans Buchmann: Jugenheim, Balkhausen and the Heiligenberg - From the chronicle of the communities Jugenheim and Balkhausen , Ed. Verkehrs- und Verschönerungsverein Jugenheim adB 1863 eV, 1st edition, Handelsdruckerei Horn, Jugenheim 1978, 488 pages without ISBN
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses to the year 1862 p.313 , 1891 p.850
  • Senarclens-Grancy, August Ludwig Freiherr von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buchmann: Jugenheim, Balkhausen and der Heiligenberg p. 316
personal data
SURNAME Senarclens-Grancy, August Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Senarclens-Grancy, August Ludwig Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and court official
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Etoy Castle, Vaud
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1871
Place of death Youth home