Pauline from Königsegg
Pauline ("Paula") Marie Countess von Königsegg zu Aulendorf , b. Countess von Bellegarde (born April 2, 1830 in Vienna , † May 27, 1912 in Munich ) was an Austrian lady-in-waiting .
Life
Pauline Countess Bellegarde was the daughter of August Graf von Bellegarde (1795–1873) and Julie, b. von Gudenus (1795-1865). On April 15, 1857, she married the Austrian court official and officer Alfred Graf von Königsegg zu Aulendorf . In 1862 she appointed Empress Elisabeth as Chief Chamberlain ; her husband also became the empress's chief steward. As a result, the couple ranked first in the court of the empress.
The appointments caused some excitement at court: on the one hand, because the Königseggs did not belong to the party of the dominant Empress Mother Archduchess Sophie , who thus lost influence; On the other hand, because Countess Königsegg - unlike her predecessor, Countess Esterhazy-Liechtenstein - belonged to the (formerly sovereign) noble nobility by marriage, but not from birth , which absolutely dominated the Viennese court, but nevertheless through her new office all the ladies at court, among them princesses, princesses and former ruling countesses, ranked, which annoyed them considerably.
Pauline Königsegg was awarded the Star Cross and was considered a confidante of the young empress in her early years in Vienna. However, she soon came into conflict with the Hungarian ladies-in-waiting, Ida Ferenczy and Marie Festetics , whom the Empress favored and whom she quickly replaced in her favor. She was generally hostile to Sisi's Hungarian friends, and she did not understand Hungarian.
Survival
In the Sissi trilogy by Ernst Marischka (1955–57) Countess Bellegarde is portrayed by Senta Wengraf .
progeny
Pauline Countess Bellegarde and Alfred Graf Königsegg had a son:
- Franz Xaver Johann Baptist Eusebius Count von Königsegg zu Aulendorf (1858–1927)
swell
- Court and State Handbook of the Austrian Empire . Manz, Vienna 1868, p. 25.
- Gothaisches Genealogical pocket book of the count's houses . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1893.
literature
- Brigitte Hamann : Elisabeth. Reluctant Empress . Amalthea, Vienna 1982.
- Karin Amtmann: Elisabeth of Austria: The political business of the empress . Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1998.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Königsegg, Pauline from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Königsegg-Aulendorf, Pauline von; Königsegg zu Aulendorf, Pauline Marie Countess von; Bellegarde, Pauline Marie Countess von (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lady-in-waiting |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 1912 |
| Place of death | Munich |