Eugène II. De Ligne

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Eugène II. De Ligne

Eugène Frédéric Marie Lamoral (born August 10, 1893 at Breuilpont Castle, France , † June 26, 1960 in Belœil , Belgium ), known as Eugène II. De Ligne, 11th Prince of Ligne, was a Belgian diplomat and ambassador . In addition, he held the title of Prince of Amblise and Epinoy and the status of knight of the Austrian branch of the Order of the Golden Fleece .

Life

Eugène was the 11th prince of the house of Ligne , a Belgian noble family from the 11th century who once owned a stretch of land between Ath and Tournai , near Belœil . Eugène was the son of Ernest (* 1857; † 1937), the 10th Prince of Ligne, and Diane (* 1869; † 1950), daughter of Roland (* 1843; † 1871), Marquis of Cossé-Brissac. On February 28, 1917, Eugène married Philippine de Noailles (* 1898; † 1991), daughter of Madeleine Courval (* 1870; † 1944) and François de Noailles in Paris.

After studying philosophy and literature , he took the diplomatic examination in 1920 and passed it with distinction. During his foreign service he received accreditations for Bucharest , Paris , Madrid , London and Washington . In the 1920s, he made a passenger car of the manufacturer Packard a trip to India . In 1925 Eugène was with his wife in the Belgian colony of Rwanda . In 1931 he crossed the Sahara with a motorized expedition , visited the former Belgian Congo and Luba and traveled through the cities of Khartoum , Luxor , Cairo and Alexandria .

With the death of his father Ernest de Ligne in 1937, Eugène became the 11th Prince of Ligne. Before the occupation of Belgium by the Wehrmacht's western campaign in 1940, he was given command of a motorized division in Antwerp . In addition, Eugène II saved 26 Jewish children from deportation by the National Socialists in his residence, Belœil Castle . He is said to have given refuge to up to 300 Jews. Yad Vashem has been calling him " Righteous Among the Nations " since 1975

From 1947 to 1951 Eugène II was Ambassador to New Delhi and from 1951 to 1958 Ambassador to Madrid. With his dispatch as ambassador to Francisco Franco , the Belgian government refrained from Paul-Henri Spaak's demand that an ambassador should not be sent until Léon Degrelle had been delivered.

progeny

Eugène II. De Ligne and Philippine de Noailles had four children, two of them boys and two girls:

  1. Baudouin (1918 - 1985), 12th Prince of Ligne
  2. Isabelle Marie Françoise Diane (* 1921; † 2000) ∞ Carlos von Saavedra and Ozores (* 1912; † 2004), Marqués of Villalobar and Guimarey
  3. Yolande Marie Jeanne Charlotte de Ligne (* 1923) ∞ Karl Ludwig (* 1918; † 2007), Archduke of Austria
  4. Antoine (* 1925; † 2005), 13th Prince of Ligne ∞ Princess Alix Marie of Luxembourg (* 1929)
    1. Michel (* 1951), currently the 14th Prince of Ligne

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chevaliers de la Toison d'Or. In: AntiquesAntos.com. Retrieved May 5, 2011 (French).
  2. ↑ See also List of Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece , No. 1250
  3. ↑ Gubwant Malik: Susan's Tiger . Writers Serv, 2010, ISBN 1-904623-78-6 , pp. 105 (English, books.google.com ).
  4. ^ John Bale: Imagined Olympians: body culture and colonial representation in Rwanda . 1st edition. Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2002, pp. 120 (English, books.google.com ).
  5. ^ John Bentley: The old car book . Arco Pub., 1953, pp. 74 (English, books.google.com ).
  6. ↑ Hanne Hellemans: Schimmen met een ster. Het moved verhaal van joodse ondergedoken kinderen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in België. (PDF; 639 kB) In: Bibliothèque / Bibliotheek. CegeSoma.be, p. 204 , accessed May 5, 2011 (Dutch).
  7. ^ Belgium and the Jewish World. (PDF; 236 kB) In: News from Belgium. Diplomatie.Belgium.be, February 2011, accessed on May 5, 2011 .
  8. ^ Yad Vashem yadvashem.org
  9. ↑ Gubwant Malik: Susan's Tiger . Writers Serv, 2010, ISBN 1-904623-78-6 , pp. 106 (English, books.google.com ).
predecessor Office successor
Emile de Cartier de Marchienne Belgian Ambassador to the United States in
1927 		Paul May
Belgian Ambassador to India
1947–1951 		Geoffroy d'Aspremont Lynden
Antoine Beyens Belgian ambassador to Spain
1951–1957 		Joseph Berryer
personal data
SURNAME Ligne, Eugène II. De
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lamoral, Eugène Frédéric Marie (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Breuilpont Castle, France
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1960
Place of death Belœil