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Serene Highness

Carl Joseph
3rd Prince of Clary-Aldringen
Full name
Karel Josef von Clary und Aldringen
Born(1777-12-12)12 December 1777
Vienna
Died31 May 1831(1831-05-31) (aged 53)
Vienna
Noble familyClary und Aldringen
Spouse(s)
Countess Marie Aloisie Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin
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(m. 1802; died 1831)​
IssueCountess Mathilde Christina
Count Alfred
Countess Euphemie
Countess Leontine
Edmund, 4th Prince of Clary-Aldringen
Countess Felicitas
FatherJohann Nepomuk, 2nd Prince of Clary-Aldringen
MotherPrincess Marie Christine Leopoldine de Ligne

Karel Josef von Clary und Aldringen (12 December 1777 – 31 May 1831) was an Austro-Hungarian prince.

Early life

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Karel Josef was born on 12 December 1777 in Vienna, Austria. He was the son of Johann Nepomuk, 2nd Prince of Clary-Aldringen (1753–1826), and Princess Marie Christine Leopoldine de Ligne (1757–1830).[1] His younger brother was Count Franz Moritz Joseph Mathaeus von Clary und Aldringen, who never married.[2]

His paternal grandparents were Franz Wenzel, 1st Prince of Clary-Aldringen, and Maria Franziska Josepha von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (a daughter of Count Herman Frederik von Hohenzollern-Hechingen[a] and, his second wife, Countess Maria Josepha of Oettingen-Spielberg).[4] His maternal grandparents were Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, and Princess Franziska Xaveria Maria von Liechtenstein (a daughter of Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein). His maternal grandmother, Princess Franziska, was the elder sister of the reigning Prince, Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein.[5]

Career

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Teplitz Palace, the main residence of the family from 1634 to 1945.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the family's Teplitz Palace was the headquarters of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon, uniting the monarchs of Austria, Prussia and Russia. There was first signed the triple alliance against Napoleon I that led to the coalition victory at the nearby Battle of Kulm and eventually instated the Holy Alliance, officially signed in Paris on 26 September 1815.[6]

Upon the death of his father in 1826, he succeeded as the 3rd Prince of Clary-Aldringen. The title had been created in 1767, for his grandfather, then Reichsgraf Wenzel von Clary und Aldringen, the Imperial Treasurer (and Emperor Joseph II's private council member), who was raised to princely rank. Members of the family became hereditary members of the Austrian Reichsrat (Imperial Council). From that date, the princely title of Fürst (Prince) von Clary und Aldringen was borne by the head of the family, who was styled as Durchlaucht (Serene Highness). Junior members bore the title of Graf (Count) or Gräfin (Countess) von Clary und Aldringen and were styled as Erlaucht (Illustrious Highness).[7]

Personal life

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Portrait of his daughter, Countess Mathilde Christina, by Emanuel Thomas Peter, 1831
Portrait of his son, Edmund, by Moritz Michael Daffinger, 1837

On 26 October 1802 at Neuhof, Karel Josef was married to his first cousin, Countess Marie "Aloisie" Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin (1777–1864), the daughter of Johann Rudolf Chotek von Chotkov und Vojnín and Countess Maria Sidonia von Clary und Aldringen (second daughter of the 1st Prince of Clary and Aldringen). Together, they were the parents of:

Karel Josef died on 31 May 1831, also in Vienna. As his eldest son died in childhood, he was succeeded by his second son, Edmund, who bought the Palazzo Clary in Venice in 1855.[6]

Descendants

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Through his daughter Mathilde Christina, he was a grandfather of the Prussian general Prince Antoni Wilhelm Radziwiłł (1833–1904),[11] who married Marie de Castellane, the daughter Henri de Castellane and Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord.[12]

Through his son Edmund, he was posthumously a grandfather of Austro-Hungarian diplomat, Prince Siegfried von Clary-Aldringen (1848−1929),[13] and Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen (1852−1928), who briefly served as Minister-President of Austria.[14]

Notes

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  1. ^ Prince Carl Joseph's great-grandfather, Imperial Field Marshal Count Herman Frederik von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1665–1733), was the second son of Philipp, 3rd Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and younger brother to Friedrich Wilhelm, 4th Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. Count Herman Frederik's first wife was Princess Eleonore Magdalene of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1673–1711), daughter of Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Wolf, Winfried (11 August 2017). Goethe und Grimm hätten sich in Karlsbad und Teplitz treffen können. epubli. p. 92. ISBN 978-3-7450-1033-6. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  2. ^ Sommer, Debora (23 October 2013). Eine baltisch-adlige Missionarin bewegt Europa: Barbara Juliane v. Krüdener, geb. v. Vietinghoff gen. Scheel (1764–1824) (in German). V&R Unipress. p. 88. ISBN 978-3-8470-0149-2. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  3. ^ Gustav Schilling: Geschichte des Hauses Hohenzollern, in genealogisch fortlaufenden Biographien aller seiner Regenten von den ältesten bis auf die neuesten Zeiten, nach Urkunden und andern authentischen Quellen, F. Fleischer, 1843, p. 233 ff.
  4. ^ zu), Johann Josef Khevenhüller-Metsch (Fürst (1908). Aus der Zeit Maria Theresias: Tagebuch des Fürsten Johann Josef Khevenhüller-Metsch, Kaiserlichen Obersthofmeisters 1742-1776 (in German). A. Holzhausen. p. 578. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  5. ^ Gates-Coon, Rebecca (15 January 2015). The Charmed Circle: Joseph II and the 'Five Princesses,' 1765-1790. Purdue University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-61249-370-1. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  6. ^ a b Alfons Clary-Aldringen, Memoirs: „Geschichten eines alten Österreichers“ (History of an old Austrian), Ullstein publishers, Frankfurt 1977, ISBN 3-550-07474-3
  7. ^ Diana Mosley, Prince and Princess Clary. Loved Ones, London 1985, pp. 132–153, ISBN 0-283-99155-0
  8. ^ a b von), Wilhelm Karl Isenburg (Prinz (1956). Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europäischen Staaten: (Europäische Stammtafeln) (in German). Stargardt. p. 139. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  9. ^ a b Almanach de Gotha (in French). Johann Paul Mevius sel. Witwe und Johann Christian Dieterich. 1929. p. 425. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  10. ^ Archived August 10, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "PRINCE RADZIWILL DEAD.; Head of the Lithuanian Branch of the Family -- Born in 1833". The New York Times. 17 December 1904. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  12. ^ "PRINCESS RADZIWILL DIES IN GERMANY; Widow of Prince Anton Succumbs at Her Kleinitz Palace at 75 Years, ONCE LEADER IN SOCIETY Her Grandson Married Dorothy Deacon -- Visited on Birthdays by Emperor William". The New York Times. 13 July 1915. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  13. ^ William D. Godsey, Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War, West Lafayette, Purdue University Press, 1999, p. 186f.
  14. ^ "Clary-Aldringen Manfred Graf". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 1, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 149.
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