Elisabeth Wilhelmine from Civry

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Elisabeth Wilhelmine von Civry , née Countess von Colmar (born July 5, 1826 in Wendessen , † November 1, 1880 in Paris ) was an illegitimate daughter of the Brunswick Duke Charles II and the English Lady Charlotte Colville.

Life

Elisabeth Wilhelmine was born in Wendessen as the illegitimate daughter of Duke Karl II of Braunschweig and the London Lady Charlotte Colville. She was named after her grandmother, the Grand Duchess Marie von Baden, and she was given the title "Countess of Colmar". Her mother fled to London with her when she was two years old. The Duke followed them and arranged for them to be sent to a school in Notting Hill and to be instructed in music by Louise Dulcken and dance by Madame Bourdin. In 1835 he brought her to Paris, where he lived in exile. She was placed in the care of Baron and Baroness von Andlau . There she attended a school in Nancy, where at the age of sixteen she had heard the sermons of Pere Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire . Initially, she received financial support from her father until she converted to Catholicism, influenced by Lacordaire's speeches. Since the Duke saw his plans to regain the Brunswick throne endangered, he now dismissed them. In 1847, with his consent, she was married to Pierre Antoine Eugene du Collin, Count of Civry, in London. A year later her husband had to sell all his goods and became impoverished. They had eight children together.

In 1863, the Countess filed a charge against the Duke before the Paris Tribunal for proper care, which he owed her as his daughter and Princess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . The Duke denied her any claims and won the trial in 1865. According to the Civil Code, if she had won a lawsuit, she would have been entitled to an inheritance. After her father's death in 1876, she again sued for recognition of the paternity of Duke Charles, this time before the court in Braunschweig. However, she passed away during the ongoing negotiations. Your children continued the claim in their place. Ultimately, however, a claim to recognition of paternity was not enforced in court, which on the one hand would have been necessary to obtain inheritance claims and on the other hand favored the city of Geneva, which had inherited a significant part of Charles II's assets.

Fonts

  • Pelerinages en Lorraine. Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours in Nancy. Impr. A. Francois, Paris around 1844, OCLC 39245500 .
  • Notre-Dame de Sion-Vaudémont (Meurthe) (= Pélerinages en Lorraine. II.) Vagner, Nancy 1845, OCLC 39245407 .

literature

  • Jean-Pierre-Antoine-Eugène Collin de Bar Civry, Cte de., Elisabeth-Wilhelmine Civry, Ctesse de., Charles II Brunswick-Lunebourg, Frèdèric-Guillaume-Auguste duc de .: La Comtesse de Civry contre SAR le duc de Brunswick . impr. P. Dupont, Paris around 1866, OCLC 467494307 .
  • Karl Braun: Civry process. In: The Diamond Duke. A German prince mirror. A. Hofmann, Berlin 1881, OCLC 236057447 .
  • Elisabeth Wilhelmine du Collin de Barizien, Countess de Civry., Conseil Municipal (Geneva): Ville de Genève. Conseil Municipal. Séance du 15 juillet, 1892. Communication du Conseil Administratif relative au procès intenté à la ville de Genève par les consorts de Civry. Geneva 1892, OCLC 559817336 .
  • France. Tribunal civil de la Seine (Paris): Lady Charlotte Colville, mère de madame Elisabeth-Wilhelmine de Brunswick, comtesse de Civry. Impr. Boullay, Paris 1896, OCLC 716520295 .
  • Kerstin Rahn: Civry, Elisabeth Wilhelmine von, geb. Countess of Colmar. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 122 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Kerstin Rahn: Civry, Elisabeth Wilhelmine von, geb. Countess of Colmar. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 122 .
  2. ^ " The child was named after its grandmother, the Grand Duchess of Baden, and created by letters patent Countess of Colmar. ”
  3. ^ A b Paris Correspondence of the London Star. In: The New York Times . dated May 14, 1865.
  4. ↑ Annual report 1899 . In: Carl Hilty (Ed.): Political Yearbook of the Swiss Confederation . KJ Wyss, Bern 1886, p. 414-415 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Civry, Elisabeth Wilhelmine from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colmar, Elisabeth Wilhelmine Countess von (maiden name); Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Elisabeth Wilhelmine von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION illegitimate daughter of Duke Karl II of Brunswick and an English lady
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Wendessen
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1880
Place of death Paris