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Beaufort-Spontin coat of arms

The Beaufort-Spontin house is a noble branch line of the Bailiffs von Huy , Lords von Spontin and Freÿr (Belgium).

history

The family belongs to the Lorraine nobility and appears in documents first 1005. She leads her descent from Walterus de Ardenne 1066/91 Vogt Huy ago, probably a son of Boson, which is called in 1032 as governor of Huy. The family name refers to the Beaufort castle near Ben-Ahin, now a ruin in a district of Huy (Belgium) . Around 1200, the Spontin Castle (in the municipality of Yvoir , Belgium) also came into the possession of the family (with interruptions from 1518 to 1753) until it was expropriated after the French Revolution and the occupation of the Austrian Netherlands . From 1410 to 1880 Freÿr Castle was owned by the family and still belongs to descendants in the female line.

  • Beaufort ruin

  • Spontin Castle, Belgium

Jacques-Vincent de Spontin (1657–1731), lord of Freÿr since 1669, was made baron. The hereditary-Dutch confirmation as Count and Marquis of Beaufort-Spontin took place for his son Charles-Albert (1713-1753) on February 16, 1746.

Friedrich, 1st Duke of Beaufort-Spontin (1751–1817)

The ducal ducal duchy (in primogeniture ) was awarded on December 2, 1782 to his son, the imperial real secret councilor Friedrich Graf von Beaufort-Spontin (1751-1817). On October 6, 1789, he was raised from Vienna to the rank of imperial count with the salutation "high and well-born". His first marriage was to Maria Leopoldina Álvarez de Toledo († 1792), daughter of the Spanish Duke of El Infantado. During the French Revolution he fled to Münster after the family castle was set on fire by the revolutionaries. However, he returned to Freÿr in 1795. In the service of the Habsburgs , however, in 1812, under pressure from Napoleon Bonaparte, he had to renounce his chamberlain function in the service of Emperor Franz II . But he refused the same function with the Emperor of the French because of his loyalty to the Habsburgs. In 1813 he acquired the Bečov castle and chateau in Bohemia. He was appointed governor of the Netherlands by the Allies in 1814, while Wellington resided in the Palais Beaufort in Brussels. Beaufort-Spontin took part in the Congress of Vienna in 1815, but did not learn that a younger branch of the House of Habsburg in Belgium was taking over rule. On May 18, 1816 he was awarded the Bohemian Inkolat . As one of 16 non-mediatized princely families, the family had a hereditary seat in the manor house , the upper house of the Austrian Imperial Council since April 1, 1867, which was linked to the Fideikommiss Beschau .

On December 29, 1876, the Austrian award of the title "Duke and Prince of Beaufort" took place, followed on February 5, 1878 with the address " Your Highness ". The later born bear the title and name "Graf von Beaufort-Spontin" or "Countess von Beaufort-Spontin".

The current head of the House of Friedrich, Duke and Prince of Beaufort-Spontin is a Belgian and Austrian citizen. He lives in Kainach in Styria .

coat of arms

The coat of arms is four and covered with a silver heart shield . It is a three golden shells occupied red oblique right bar . The first and fourth quarters are in gold with a red diagonal right bar (without shells); in the second and third quarters bars of gold and red are divided tenfold. On the helmet with its red and silver covers are two silver knives facing away from each other. The shield holders are two opposing golden lions , each holding two golden lance shafts with tassels on the pommel . At the very top is the prince's crown , all around the prince's mantle.

Possessions

Freÿr Castle on the Meuse, Belgium
Castle in Florennes , Belgium
  • Spontin Castle (in Yvoir , Belgium), came to the de Beaufort family at the beginning of the 13th century , from which it fell to the de Glymes de Florennes family in 1518 , from whom it came back to the Beaufort-Spontin in 1753 before it was confiscated in the French Revolution.
  • The Castle Freÿr in Belgium came in 1410 by marrying the heiress Marie de Rochefort Jacques de Beaufort-Spontin to the family. In 1817 the first Duke bequeathed it to his daughter Gilda (1813-1880), married Mouchet de Battefort, Comtesse de Laubespin, whose descendants still own it today.
  • Florennes Castle , owned by the family from 1771 to 1893 (with interruptions during the annexation by France).
  • 1813-1945 castle and chateau Bečov with Fideikommiss Bečov ( Bečov ) in West Bohemia, acquired in 1813 by Duke Friedrich. The St. Maurus shrine from Florennes (1225–30) is still there today .

Dukes of Beaufort-Spontin

  1. Charles Albert, † 1753, 1746 Dutch-Dutch Comte et Marquis de Beaufort-Spontin; ∞ Marie Marguerite Rose Dorothée Victoire Comtesse de Glymes , Marquise de Courcelles et de Florennes , heiress of Florennes, † 1755, heiress of Jean Victurnien Joseph and Marguerite Ferdinande Isabelle de Glymes, Marquise de Florennes
    1. Charles-Alexandre, Comte et Marquis de Beaufort-Spontin (1750–1766)
    2. Friedrich August Alexander, † 1817, 1766 Marquis de Spontin, de Florennes et de Courcelles, 1775 Comte de Beauraing, 1782 Duc de Beaufort-Spontin, 1789 Imperial Count, 1814 Governor General of Belgium; ∞ I Maria Leopoldina Álvarez de Toledo († 1792) daughter of Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of El Infantado ; ∞ II Ernestine Margarete Countess of Starhemberg, † 1832, daughter of Prince Ludwig von Starhemberg
      1. (I) Franziska Philippine Thomas, † 1830; ∞ Francisco de Borja Téllez-Girón, 10th Duke of Osuna , † 1820
      2. (II) Friedrich Ludwig Ladislaus (1809–1834), 2nd Duc de Beaufort-Spontin
      3. (II) Valérie Georgine (1811–1887) ∞ I Georg Graf von Starhemberg (1802–1834), II Theodor Graf van der Straten-Ponthoz (1809–1889)
      4. (II) Marie Hermengilde (Gilda) (1813–1880) ∞ Camille Mouchet de Battefort, Comte de Laubespin (1812–1876); Heiress of Freÿr
        1. Théodule Mouchet de Battefort, Comte de Laubespin (1848–1935), on Freÿr, ∞ Louise d'Avesgo de Coulonges
          1. Humbert Mouchet de Battefort, Comte de Laubespin (1881–1928) ∞ Odette Lagarde
            1. Herménégilde (1919–1987), on Freÿr, ∞ Baron François Bonaert (3 children)
      5. Bečov Castle and Chateau , Bohemia
        (II) Karl Alfred (1816–1888), 3rd Duc de Beaufort-Spontin, 1876 Austrian Prince, heir to Fideikommiss Beschau ∞ I Pauline de Forbes, † 1846, daughter of Charles Théodore Palamède de Forbes, Marquis de Janson; ∞ II Therese Princess von Thurn und Taxis , † 1883, daughter of Prince Maximilian Karl
        1. (I) Friedrich Georg Maria, † 1916, 4th Duc de Beaufort-Spontin ∞ Marie Melanie Princess de Ligne
          1. Heinrich Maria Eugen, † 1966, 5th Duc de Beaufort-Spontin ∞ Marie-Adelheid Countess of Silva-Tarouca
            1. Friedrich Joseph Karl, * 1916 † 1998, 6th Duke and 4th Prince of Beaufort-Spontin ∞ Christiane Steinheuer
              1. Friedrich Christian, 7th Duke and 5th Prince of Beaufort-Spontin * 1944 ∞ Astrid Deeg (2 daughters)
              2. Christian Friedrich Walter Graf von Beaufort-Spontin * 1947 ∞ Eva Horestzky (2 daughters)

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch, Hofkalender 1836 to 1942
  • Etat Présent de la Noblesse Belge (1994), p. 199-202.
  • Etat Présent de la Noblesse Belge (2003), p. 165-168.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility 141 (2007), p. 370-374

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It must be clarified whether Beaufort Castle in Luxembourg, sometimes referred to as the family seat, originally belonged to a branch of the same family or to a different family with the same name.
  2. ↑ http://www.freyr.be/history/d/hd--friedrich-erster-herzog-von-beaufort-auf-schloss-freyr.php
  3. ↑ http://www.freyr.be/relatives/d/rd--ein-wort-von-friedrich-von-beaufort-spontin.php
  4. ↑ http://www.freyr.be/relatives/d/rd--ein-wort-von-friedrich-von-beaufort-spontin.php

Web links

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