Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino

Duke of Castel Duino

Alessandro

Prince Alexander of Thurn and Taxis in 1922

Duke of Castel Duino
Period| 1923 – 11 March 1937
Predecessor| none
Successor| Raimundo

Born| (1881-07-08)8 July 1881
Schloss Mzell, Mzell, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Died| 11 March 1937(1937-03-11) (aged 55)
Castel Duino, Duino, Kingdom of Italy
Spouse| Princess Marie de Ligne
Helen Holbrook Walker[1]
Issue| Raimundo, 2nd Duke of Castel Duino
Prince Ludwig
Princess Margarete of Bourbon-Parma
| Names

German: Alexander Karl Egon Theobald Lamoral Johann Baptist Maria
House| Thurn and Taxis
Father| Prince Alexander Johann of Thurn and Taxis
Mother| Princess Marie of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
Religion| Roman Catholic

Prince Alessandro della Torre e Tasso, 1st Duke of Castel Duino,[2] full German name: Alexander Karl Egon Theobald Lamoral Johann Baptist Maria, Prinz von Thurn und Taxis (8 July 1881 in Schloss Mzell, Mzell, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary - 11 March 1937 in Castel Duino, Duino, Kingdom of Italy) was a member of the Bohemian branch of the princely House of Thurn and Taxis.[2] Alessandro was created Prince della Torre e Tasso and first Duke of Castel Duino by Victor Emmanuel III of Italy after relocating to the Kingdom of Italy in 1923.[3]

## Family[edit]

Alessandro was the third child and son of Prince Alexander Johann of Thurn and Taxis and his wife Princess Marie of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst.[citation needed] He was a great-great-great-grandson of Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis.

## First marriage and issue[edit]

Alessandro’s first marriage was to Princess Marie Susanne Marguerite Louise de Ligne, daughter of Louis, 9th Prince de Ligne and Elisabeth de La Rochefoucauld, daughter of Sosthène, Duc de Doudeauville, civilly on 27 January 1906 and religiously on 29 January 1906 in Paris.[citation needed] Alessandro and Marie had children together:[citation needed]

* Prince Raimundo della Torre e Tasso, 2nd Duke of Castel Duino (Castel Duino 16 March 1907 – Castel Duino 17 March 1986),[citation needed] married Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark
* Prince Luigi della Torre e Tasso (Castel Duino 5 October 1908 – Camillus, New York 25 March 1985)[4] married Frances Goodyear (granddaughter of Buffalo, New York industrialist Charles W. Goodyear in 1939.[5][6] They divorced in 1948.[6] Together they had one son, “Sascha” Alexander Frederick Bradley, Prince of Torre e Tasso (1940-2011).[7]
* Princess Margarete of Thurn and Taxis (born at Château de Belœil on 8 November 1909 - died on 21 September 2006),[citation needed] married Prince Gaetano of Bourbon-Parma, youngest child of Robert I, Duke of Parma. Together they had one daughter, Princess Diane Marguerite of Bourbon-Parma.

Alessandro and Marie divorced in 1919.[citation needed]

## Second marriage[edit]

In 1932, in Vrana, Alessandro married American heiress Helena "Ella" Holbrook Walker.[2]

Ella lived many years beyond her husband’s death in 1937, and worked on the upkeep of the family’s property, Villa Serbelloni at Bellagio, Lombardy, Italy, and left it to the Rockefeller Foundation in her will.[8]

## Ancestry[edit]

Ancestors of Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino

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| 4\. Prince Hugo Maximilian of Thurn and Taxis|

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| 9\. Countess Marie Isabelle zu Eltz

| 2\. Prince Alexander Johann of Thurn and Taxis|

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| 10\. Count Eduard von Belcredi

| 5\. Countess Almeria von Belcredi|

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| 11\. Countess Marie von Fünfkirchen

| 1\. Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino|
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| 12\. Charles Albert III, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

| 6\. Prince Egon of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst|

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| 13\. Princess Maria Leopoldina of Fürstenberg

| 3\. Princess Marie of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst|

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| 14\. Count Johann Baptist von Thurn und Valsassina

| 7\. Countess Theresa von Thurn-Hofer-Valsassina|

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| 15\. Countess Polyxena Brigido

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## References[edit]

1. ^ No issue.
2. ^ a b c "PRINCE OF THURN AND TAXIS IS DEAD; Alexander, Active in Various Commercial Enterprises, Owned Vast Estates MARRIED DETROIT WOMAN He Headed Younger Branch of Family-Former Member of Austrian Privy Council". The New York Times. 12 March 1937. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
3. ^ The Italian branch was included for the last time in: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels 85 (1984).
4. ^ "Family tree of Alexandre Charles Egon Theobald Lamoral Baptist Maria von THURN UND TAXIS". Geneanet. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
5. ^ TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (1939-06-23). "FANNY GOODYEAR WED TO PRINCE ON JUNE 10; Married to Louis Della Torre e Tasso of Thurn and Taxis". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
6. ^ a b Goodyear family Wiki page - see Family tree
7. ^ "Alexander Tasso Obituary (2011) - Charleston, SC - Charleston Post & Courier". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
8. ^ "Rockefeller Foundation Centennial Project". Retrieved 2023-05-12.

Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino

House of Thurn and Taxis

Cadet branch of the House of Tassis

Born: 8 July 1881 Died: 11 March 1937

Italian nobility
Preceded by

New creation

|  Duke of Castel Duino
1923 – 11 March 1937  | Succeeded by

Raimundo

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Princes of Thurn and Taxis

The generations are numbered from the elevation of Eugen Alexander Franz to Prince of Thurn and Taxis in 1695.

1st generation|

* Anselm Franz, 2nd Prince of Thurn and Taxis

2nd generation|

* Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis

3rd generation|

* Karl Anselm, 4th Prince of Thurn and Taxis

4th generation|

* Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis

5th generation|

* Maximilian Karl, 6th Prince of Thurn and Taxis

6th generation|

* Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis
* Prince Paul
* Prince Gustav (1848–1914)

7th generation|

* Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
* Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
* Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino
* Prince Nikolaus (1885–1919)
* Prince Gustav (1888–1919)

8th generation|

* Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
* Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
* Prince Ludwig Philipp
* Prince Max Emanuel (1902–1994)
* Prince Raphael Rainer
* Raimundo, 2nd Duke of Castel Duino

9th generation|

* Prince Gabriel
* Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
* Prince Max Emanuel (b. 1935)
* Prince Friedrich (b. 1950)
* Carlo Alessandro, 3rd Duke of Castel Duino

10th generation|

* Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis

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