Alfred, 2nd Prince of Montenuovo

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Alfred
Prince of Montenuovo
Born(1854-09-16)16 September 1854
Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died6 September 1927(1927-09-06) (aged 72)
Vienna, Republic of Austria
SpouseCountess Franziska Maria Stephania Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau
IssueJuliana, Princess of Oettingen-Oettingen
Marie Felizia, Countess Franz of Ledebur-Wicheln
Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Montenuovo
Franziska, Princess Leopold of Lobkowicz
Names
Alfred Adam Wilhelm Johann Maria
HouseHouse of Montenuovo
FatherWilliam Albert, 1st Prince of Montenuovo
MotherCountess Juliana Batthyány-Strattmann

Alfred, 2nd Prince of Montenuovo (16 September 1854 – 6 September 1927) was one of the highest court officials of Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria. Among his ancestors were members of the Habsburg family.

Private life

Prince Alfred of Montenouvo was born in Vienna, Austrian Empire, the only son of William Albert, 1st Prince of Montenuovo (1819–1895), (son of Adam Albert, Count of Neipperg and Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria) and his wife, Countess Juliana Batthyány-Strattmann (1827–1871), (daughter of Count János Baptist Batthyány-Strattmann and Countess Marie Esterházy de Galántha). His paternal grandmother Marie Louise was the Empress consort of Napoleon I of France from 1810 to 1814 and Duchess of Parma from 1814, she married morganatically to his grandfather Adam Albert in 1821.

Alfred married on 30 October 1879 in Vienna to Countess Franziska Maria Stephania Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau (1861–1935), daughter of Ferdinand Bonaventura, 7th Prince Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, and his wife, Princess Maria Josepha of Liechtenstein. They had four children:

  • Princess Juliana Rosa of Montenuovo (15 November 1880 – 27 June 1961), (1) Married in 1903 to Count Dionys Maria Draskovich of Trakostjan, had issue, but divorced. (2) Married in 1914 to Karl, Prince of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein, no issue.
  • Princess Marie of Montenuovo (20 October 1881 – 10 August 1954), married in 1909 to Count Franz Maria of Ledebur-Wicheln, had issue.
  • Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Montenuovo (29 May 1888 – 2 May 1951), married in 1927 to Baroness Ilona Solymossy of Loós and Egervár, had issue.
  • Princess Franziska of Montenuovo (22 August 1893 – 3 November 1972), married in 1878 to Count Antal Apponyi de Nagy-Appony, had issue.

He inherited the title Prince of Montenuovo in 1895 following the death of his father.

The prince died in 1927 in his palace at Löwelstrasse 6 in Vienna's city centre after suffering a heart attack. His corpse was interred at his family's burial place at Bóly (Német-Bóly) in Hungary.

Career

After studying at the Catholic seminary in Salzburg, Alfred started a career as court official, in 1896/97 becoming Obersthofmeister (High Steward of the court) of Archduke Otto of Austria, brother of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, from 1896 successor to the throne.

In 1898 Francis Joseph I made him Second Obersthofmeister of the court of the emperor (besides Prince Rudolf of Liechtenstein). In 1900, Montenuovo was honoured by the Order of the Golden Fleece, the personal order of the dynasty. After Prince Rudolf's death, Montenuovo advanced to First Obersthofmeister in 1909. The Obersthofmeisteramt, as his office was called, among other duties was supervising the court theatres. Montenuovo supported the decision to make Gustav Mahler conductor and director of the I.R. Court Opera.

Montenuovo was said to have been a lifelong enemy of Franz Ferdinand. Following the assassination of the latter and his morganatic wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, at Sarajevo in 1914, and with the emperor's connivance, he decided to turn the funeral into a massive and vicious snub.[1] Even though most foreign royalty had planned to attend, they were pointedly disinvited and the funeral was attended by just the immediate imperial family, with the dead couple's three children excluded from the few public ceremonies. The officer corps was forbidden to salute the funeral train, and this led to a minor revolt led by Archduke Karl, the new heir to the throne. The public viewing of the coffins was curtailed severely and even more scandalously, Montenuovo tried unsuccessfully to make the children foot the bill. The Archduke and Duchess were interred at Artstetten Castle because the Duchess could not be buried at the Imperial Crypt.[2]

In 1917, the new emperor Charles I replaced Montenuovo with Prince Karl von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst.

Honours

Austrian

Foreign

Ancestry

Family of Alfred, 2nd Prince of Montenuovo
16. Wilhelm Reinhard, Count of Neipperg
8. Leopold, Count of Neipperg
17. Countess Maria Franziska Theresia Khevenhüller
4. Adam Albert, Count of Neipperg
18. Count Karl Ferdinand of Hatzfeldt
9. Countess Marie Wilhelmine of Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg
19. Baroness Marie Sophie of Bettendorff
2. William Albert, 1st Prince of Montenuovo
20. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
10. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis I of Austria
21. Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain
5. Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria
22. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
11. Princess Maria Teresa of Naples and Sicily
23. Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria
1. Alfred, 2nd Prince of Montenuovo
24. Adam Wenzel, Prince of Batthyány-Strattmann
12. Lajos, Prince of Batthyány-Strattmann
25. Countess Maria Theresia Illésházy de Illésháza
6. Count János Batthyány-Strattmann
26. Count Johann Carl of Pergen
13. Countess Maria Elisabeth of Pergen
27. Countess Maria Rosine of Walsegg
3. Countess Juliana Batthyány-Strattmann
28. Count János Esterházy de Galántha
14. Count Károly Esterházy de Galántha
29. Countess Maria Amalia of Limburg Stirum
7. Countess Marie Esterházy de Galántha
30. Count Pál Festetics de Tolna
15. Countess Erzsébet Festetics de Tolna
31. Countess Julianna Bossányi de Nagy-Bossány et Kispróna

Notes and sources

  1. ^ The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans
  2. ^ "The Funeral of the Archduke". The Independent. New York. Jul 13, 1914. p. 59. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
Alfred, 2nd Prince of Montenuovo
Born: 16 September 1854 Died: 6 September 1927
Titles of nobility
Preceded by Prince of Montenuovo
1895–1919 		Succeeded by
Titles in pretence
Loss of title
 — TITULAR —
Prince of Montenuovo
1919–1927
Reason for succession failure:
Austrian nobility titles abolished 		Succeeded by

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