Stéphanie de Tascher de La Pagerie

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Stéphanie de Tascher, miniature portrait of Jean-Baptiste Isabey (around 1809)

Marie-Rose-Françoise-Stéphanie de Tascher de La Pagerie (born August 4, 1788 in Fort Royal , Martinique , Lesser Antilles ; † October 26, 1832 in Paris ) was a duchess by marrying Prosper Ludwig von Arenberg on February 1, 1808 from Arenberg-Meppen and Aarschot . At the same time, Napoleon I raised her to a French princess (princesse impériale) and thus a member of his imperial family .

Life

Stéphanie was the daughter of lieutenant captain and baron Robert-Marguerite de Tascher de La Pagerie (1740-1806) and his wife Jeanne Le Roux-Chapelle (1754-1822), thus a scion of that branch of the French aristocratic family de Tascher, which has been on since 1726 the Lesser Antilles was represented.

When she was at the court of her cousin Joséphine , the French empress and wife of Napoleon, at the age of 17 or 18, she planned her marriage to the Hereditary Prince Karl von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . The Hereditary Prince was the eldest son of Joséphine's friend, Princess Amalie Zephyrine von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . However, the princess was not pleased with the marriage plans . In her later memoirs, she tells of her belief that Stéphanie would have made her son unhappy. Therefore, she postponed the project until Joséphine looked at another marriage candidate.

With Prosper Ludwig, Duke of Arenberg-Meppen since 1803 and sovereign and ally of Napoleon in the Rhine Confederation since 1806 , this candidate was finally found. The couple married on February 1, 1808. With a dowry of 1 million francs and an increase in rank to a princesse impériale , Napoleon Stéphanie was able to have the politically important marriage with the 29-year-old German, who, at 1.62 m tall, was not exactly the most impressive apparition of his class counted, make palatable.

During the Spanish War, Stéphanie's husband led his troops, the Chevau-Légers d'Aremberg , into the field on the side of France . Although he had lost his sovereignty through a resolution of the French Senate, in which France decided at the end of 1810 to annex the Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen, the Duke continued to fight on the French side. He was seriously wounded on October 28, 1811 and was taken prisoner by the British, where he remained until 1814.

During this time, Stéphanie lived in Paris and Saint-Cloud and did not think about visiting her duchy. Her marriage to the Duke, to whom she was not inclined, broke down completely in the winter of 1814/1815 when he tried unsuccessfully at the Congress of Vienna to regain sovereignty. Rumors circulated that the Duchess had secret lovers. On August 29, 1816, the childless marriage was annulled by a Paris civil tribunal, and on August 21, 1818 also by a church by a bull from Pius VII.

On November 12, 1819, Stéphanie married the 32-year-old French officer Guy-Jacques Victor Marie Eugène Pierre Vincent de Paule, marquis de Chaumont de Quitry (1787-1851), a former squadron chief and Grand Chamberlain (Grand Chambellan) of Napoleon, after they on November 8, 1819 a corresponding marriage contract was entered. The couple had two children, Stéphanie de Chaumont-Quitry (1826–1913) and Odon Charles Joseph de Chaumont-Quitry (1827–1866). After her death, her husband married Adélaïde-Louise Charlotte de Bourbon (1780–1874), daughter of Louis VI. Henri Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé .

literature

  • Georg Hassel (Hrsg.): Genealogical-historical-statistical almanac. 9th year (1832), Weimar 1832, pp. 290, 394 ( Google Books ).
  • German Adelsarchiv (ed.): Genealogical manual of the nobility. Verlag CA Starke, 1968, p. 242.
  • Hugues A. Desgranges: Nobiliare du Berry. Lyon 1971, Volume 1, p. 262.
  • Patrick Van Kerrebrouck: La Maison de Bourbon. (= Nouvelle histoire généalogique de l'Auguste Maison de France. Volume 4) 1987, ISBN 978-2-95015-090-5 , Volume 2, p. 651.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Neu: Regesten of the archives of the Counts of Sponheim, 1065-1437 . Volume 4: 1426-1437 (Regesten Nos. 4240-4875) . (= The Arenbergers and the Arenberger Land. Volume 4: The 19th Century. From Sovereign to Prosecutor. ) 1993, ISBN 978-3-92201-870-4 , p. 245
  2. ^ Paul Sauer : Napoleon's eagle over Württemberg, Baden and Hohenzollern. Southwest Germany during the Confederation of the Rhine . Verlag Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1987, p. 211
  3. ↑ Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich : Memories . G. Müller Verlag, Munich 1921, Volume 22, p. 480
  4. ↑ Famille de Tascher & de Tascher de La Pagerie & de Pouvrai ( PDF ), accessed on October 23, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Tascher de La Pagerie, Stéphanie de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Arenberg-Meppen
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Royal , Martinique
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1832
Place of death Paris