Van der Straten-Ponthoz
The noble family van der Straten-Ponthoz belong to the Austrian and Belgian nobility . They are considered to be lordly counts . While the name part van der Straten is a Low German name of origin without a nobility predicate, Ponthoz literally stands in Hungarian for “to the point”.
Belgian branch
- Gabriel Auguste Graf van der Straten-Ponthoz (1812–1900), royal Belgian diplomat
Austrian branch
Rudolph Graf von der Straten-Ponthoz was born in Brussels in 1851 and was the progenitor of the Austrian branch of the noble family. He married Maria Margravine von Pallavicini in Vienna in 1876 and died in Weinern (Waldviertel) in 1926 . The descendants of this marriage are:
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Rudolf Graf van der Straten-Ponthoz (1877–1961) ( ORGV from 1950) ∞ Isabella Countess von Almeida (1887–1967)
- Countess Maria Margarethe van der Straten-Ponthoz (* 1916) ∞ Count Friedrich Bossi -Fedrigotti (1906–1996)
- Josephine Countess van der Straten-Ponthoz (* 1921) ∞ Christian Graf Kinsky (* 1924)
- Sophie Countess van der Straten-Ponthoz (* 1926) ∞ Gerhard Scholten (1923–1995)
- Valerie Maria Countess von der Straten-Ponthoz (1879–1962)
- Alexander Graf von der Straten-Ponthoz (1882–1949) ∞ Eleonore b. Countess Sternberg (1873–1960)
- Friedrich Alfred Graf von der Straten-Ponthoz (1886–1959) ∞ Friederike von Gasteiger zu Rabenstein and Kobach (* 1886)
- Karl Rudolf Graf von der Straten-Ponthoz (1922–2008) ∞ Baronessa Valeria Caccia Dominioni (* 1925)
- Gabrielle Countess von der Straten-Ponthoz (1896–1984) ∞ Robert Baron Klinger von Klingerstorff (* 1884)
Buildings
The following buildings in Austria are associated with the van der Straten-Ponthoz family:
- Weinern Castle , Waldviertel, Lower Austria
- Heidenreichstein Castle , Waldviertel, Lower Austria
- Hackinger Schlösschen , Vienna: Eleonore van der Straten-Ponthoz
- Karlstein Castle on the Thaya , Waldviertel, Lower Austria
- Kirchberg an der Wild Castle , Waldviertel, Lower Austria
- Meierhof "Sittmannshof" near Loibes , Waldviertel, Lower Austria
- Gross-Siegharts Castle , Waldviertel, Lower Austria
- Villa Rechenhof, Leoben, Styria
Web links
Commons : Van der Straten - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Rudolph Graf von der Straten-Ponthoz on thepeerage.com , accessed October 4, 2015.