Count of Wisborg
The Luxembourg agnatic title Graf von Wisborg (French Comte de Wisborg, Swedish greve af Wisborg) was given to four former princes of the Swedish royal family Bernadotte . Their agnatic descendants also bear the dignity of the count.
The first holder of the title was Oscar (1859-1953), second son of King Oskar II , until 1888 Prince of Sweden. He was accepted into the Luxembourg nobility in 1892 by his mother's brother, Queen Sophia , the former Duke of Nassau and Grand Duke of Luxembourg Adolph , who had ruled since 1890 . Before leaving the royal house, Prince Oscar was Duke of Gotland , whose capital Wisby is alluded to with Wisborg Castle .
In 1951, three former Swedish princes followed, who had renounced their inheritance rights in the 1930s and 1940s in order to be able to marry unequally, also as a result of Luxembourg awards:
- Sigvard (1907–2002), son of the Swedish King Gustav VI. Adolf ,
- Lennart (1909–2004), grandson of King Gustav V , and
- Carl Johan (1916–2012), son of the Swedish King Gustav VI. Adolf.
All four are named Prince Bernadotte in these documents .
One of the best-known bearers of the title is Folke Bernadotte , who was shot dead by the Jewish terrorist group Lechi in 1948 as a mediator for the United Nations in Palestine .
The name is always translated in Swedish as Bernadotte af Wisborg , although the nobility predicate “von” is also quite common in the Swedish language. The Swedish version also occurs in German, for example with the landscape architect Catherina Ruffing Countess Bernadotte af Wisborg .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Lettres Patentes du Grand Duc Adolphe, April 2, 1892.
- ↑ Mémorial ( Memento des Originals from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. du Grand Duché de Luxembourg, August 13, 1951, p. 1135.
