Viktoria Hedwig Karoline von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym

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Viktoria Hedwig Karoline von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (born January 9, 1749 in Stevensweert , † June 26, 1841 in Eger ) from the house of the Askanians was a “Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg- Schaumburg-Hoym”, baroness von Bärental and by marriage to the Marquise de Favras.

Life

Karoline was the only daughter of Prince Karl Ludwig von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1723–1806) from his marriage to Benjamin Gertrud Kaiser (1729–1787). The father left his wife the year after the marriage, which had come about through a forged paternal consent of the prince's father, after the birth of Caroline. Her parents' marriage was annulled by court order in The Hague in 1757 . The mother went to Paris and was accepted into the house of the French prince Soubise .

On January 26, 1778, Karoline married Thomas de Mahy , Marquis de Favras (1744–1790), an officer in the Guard of the Count of Provence in Mannheim . After the marriage, her husband went to Vienna to campaign for the rights of his wife as Princess von Anhalt. The Reichshofrat rejected this request on May 11, 1778, and Karoline also failed on September 14, 1780 when the Reichshofrat tried to be recognized as Countess von Anhalt. However, at the Reichshofrat, Karoline pushed through annual endowments from the Princely House of Anhalt. Karoline later called herself Baroness von Bärental.

On the evening of 24 December 1789 Karoline and her husband were at the beginning of the French Revolution on the orders of the Committee of the Paris Commune arrested and two days later when Châteletgericht for counterrevolutionary accused machinations and crimes against the nation. The couple was arrested. Favras was sentenced to death and executed in Paris on February 19, 1790. In his will he asked for protection and support for his wife and two children. Karoline had been released from custody before her husband was executed. She left France and, as the “widow of Favras”, later received annual cash payments from the French court as compensation.

Karoline had two children from their marriage. Her son Charles de Mahy served in Austrian and Russian military services and went missing in 1830. Her daughter Karoline (1787–1865) married Baron Rudolf Rüdiger von Stillfried und Rattonitz (1764–1833) in 1805.

literature

  • Eduard Stillfried von Rattonitz: Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras, and his wife , W. Braumüller, 1881
  • Carl Heinrich von Schütz: History of the change of state in France under King Louis XVI , Volume 4, Ss. 176 ff., 219, FA Brockhaus, 1829
  • Stephan Kekule von Stradonitz: Intermédiaire des Chercheurs et Curieux , 1904
  • Dietmar Willoweit: Unequal marriages of the ruling high nobility in modern German legal history , Verlag der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General German Real Encyclopedia for the educated classes: Conversations-Lexikon, Volume 6, p. 163, FA Brockhaus, 1865
  2. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Wagener: State and Society Lexicon: new Conversations Lexicon , Volume 7, p. 336, F. Heinicke, 1861
  3. ↑ http://nabut.com/baron%20von%20stillfried.html
personal data
SURNAME Viktoria Hedwig Karoline von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karoline von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Baroness von Bärenthal, Marquise de Favry
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Stevensweert
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1841
Place of death Eger (Bohemia)