Auguste Louis Albéric d'Arenberg

Prince Auguste d'Arenberg
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1889–1902
In office
1877–1881
Personal details
BornAuguste Louis Albéric d'Arenberg
(1837-09-15)15 September 1837
Paris, France
Died24 January 1924(1924-01-24) (aged 86)
Paris, France
Spouse
Jeanne Marie Louise Greffulhe
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(m. 1868; died 1891)​
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Children4
Parent(s)Pierre d'Arenberg, 1st Duke of Arenberg
Alix de Talleyrand-Périgord

Prince Auguste Louis Albéric d'Arenberg, 2nd Duke of Arenberg, GCSI (15 September 1837 – 24 January 1924) was a French nobleman and monarchist politician who served in the Chamber of Deputies. Upon the death of his father in 1877, he inherited the French noble title of duc d'Arenberg (Duke of Arenberg) and became the head of the French cadet branch of the House of Arenberg. He was noted for his great wealth and extensive properties throughout France, particularly at Menetou-Salon in the Cher department.

Early life

Born in Paris on 15 September 1837, he was the third son of Prince Pierre d'Arenberg, 1st Duke of Arenberg (1790–1877) and his wife, Alix Marie Charlotte de Talleyrand-Périgord (1808–1842). His father had been made a duke and peer of France in 1827 and became a naturalized French subject by order of King Charles X in 1828.[2]

Since both of his elder brothers died prematurely, he inherited his father's ducal title. His sister Marie Nicolette was married to Charles de Merode, 10th Marquess of Westerlo. After his mother's death in 1842, his father remarried in 1860 to Caroline Léopoldine Jeanne, Princess of Kaunitz-Rietberg-Questenberg.

His paternal grandfather was Louis Engelbert, 6th Duke of Arenberg, and his uncle was Prosper Louis, 7th Duke of Arenberg.[3]

Career

Arenberg served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1877 to 1881. He was elected as the official candidate of the MacMahon government, winning the poll due to the abstention of republican voters disenchanted with his predecessor. In the Chamber, he voted consistently with the monarchist Right and conservatives. He voted against the legalization of divorce.[4]

Returned to parliament as a monarchist candidate in 1889, Arenberg continued his opposition to republican government. After Rerum novarum and Pope Leo XIII's recognition of the Third Republic, however, Arenberg changed his rhetoric, campaigning in 1893 as a "liberal republican". In the Chamber, he concentrated on colonial issues, in particular those concerning Africa. Among his projects were securing free navigation of the Niger River and delineating Anglo-French colonial boundaries.[5]

Defeated in the 1902 elections and failing to secure reelection in 1906, Arenberg retired from politics but remained active in public life. He was the first president of the pro-colonial Comité de l'Afrique française and remained active with the organization until his death.[6]

A convinced Catholic himself, he was one of the organizers in 1895 of a failed attempt to build a mosque in Paris through private donations. From 1896, he was also president of the Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez, and he was a member of the Institut de France (Académie des Beaux-Arts) from 1897.[5]

Personal life

On 18 June 1868, Arenberg married Jeanne Marie Louise Greffulhe (1850–1891).[7][8] She was the elder daughter of Count Louis-Charles Greffulhe and Félicité-Pauline-Marie de La Rochefoucauld d'Estissac, and a sister of Henry Greffulhe (a personal friend of author Marcel Proust).[9][10]

They were the parents of four children:[11]

  • Alix Jeanne Marie d'Arenberg (1869–1924), who married Pierre Adolphe, Marquis de Laguiche, a descendant of Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon.[12]
  • Charles Louis Pierre d'Arenberg (1871–1919), who married Antoinette Hélène Emma Louise de Gramont de Lesparre (1883–1958), a granddaughter of the 10th Duke of Gramont and cousin of the 12th Duke of Gramont.[13]
  • Louise Marie Charlotte d'Arenberg (1872–1958), who married Louis Antoine Melchior, Marquis de Vogüé.[14]
  • Ernest Hélie Charles Marie d'Arenberg (1886–1915), who died during World War I.[15]

The Duke of Arenberg died on 24 January 1924.[5] Since both of his sons predeceased him, the ducal title was inherited by his eldest male-line grandson.

Descendants

Through his son Charles Louis, he was the grandfather of Prince Charles Auguste Armand d'Arenberg (1905–1967). The latter became the 3rd Duke of Arenberg in 1924 and married American heiress Margaret Bancroft in 1960 as her second husband.[16] They had one child together, Prince Pierre Frederic Henri d'Arenberg (b. 1961), who became the 4th Duke of Arenberg.[17] After the 3rd Duke of Arenberg died in 1967, she married Emmanuel de Crussol, 15th Duke of Uzès, as his second wife.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ "1891 – Faire-part décès Jeanne GREFFULHE, Princesse Auguste d'ARENBERG, Paris". www.ebay.ca. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  2. ^ Charles Emmanuel Joseph Poplimont (1863), La Belgique héraldique, Typ. de G. Adriaens, 1863. p. 205
  3. ^ "PRINCE TO TURN FARMER.; Prosper of Arenberg, Condemned for Murder, Now to be Sent to Argentina". The New York Times. 21 August 1910.
  4. ^ Robert, Adolphe, Edgar Bourloton, and Gaston Cougny, dirs. Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, comprennant tous les membres des assemblées françaises et tous les ministres français depuis le 1er mai 1789 jusqu'au 1er mai 1889, avec leurs noms, état civil, état de services, actes politiques, votes parlementaires, etc. 5 vols. Paris: Bourloton, Éditeur, 1891.
  5. ^ a b c Jolly, Jean, dir. Dictionnaire des parlementaires français: Notices biographiques sur les ministres, députés et sénateurs français de 1889 à 1940. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1960–70.
  6. ^ "Auguste Louis Albéric, Prince d'Arenberg". www.britishmuseum.org. British Museum. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  7. ^ Nauroy, Charles (1883). Le Curieux (in French). p. 148.
  8. ^ Le Bulletin héraldique de France; ou, Revue historique de la noblesse ... (in French). 1890. p. 185.
  9. ^ "GREFFULHE PAPIERS DE LA FAMILLE" (PDF). Archives Nationales du Monde du Travail. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  10. ^ (Père), Anselme (1879). Histoire de la Maison royale de France (in French). p. 739.
  11. ^ Annuaire de la noblesse de France (in French). Au Bureau de la publication. 1894.
  12. ^ Robinson, Paul (2014). Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich: Supreme Commander of the Russian Army (in Arabic). Cornell University Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-60909-163-7.
  13. ^ Mension-Rigau, Eric (2011). L'ami du prince: Journal inédit d'Alfred de Gramont (1892-1915) (in French). Fayard. p. 225. ISBN 978-2-213-66502-3.
  14. ^ of), Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny Ruvigny and Raineval (9th marquis (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe. Harrison & Sons. p. 1531.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ "PRINCE D'ARENBERG KILLED.; Tenth Member of French Aristocracy to Die in the War". The New York Times. 22 March 1915.
  16. ^ "Secret Marriage Of Mrs. Bancroft Announced Here; Daughter of Standard Oil Aide Wed Dec. 29 to Prince d'Arenberg". The New York Times. 7 February 1961. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  17. ^ "Son to the d'Arenbergs". The New York Times. 17 October 1961.
  18. ^ Nemy, Enid (18 October 1977). "DUCHESS D'UZES DIES IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT: U.S. Born Socialite is Killed After A Party Near Paris--Was Wife of France's Premier Duke". The New York Times.
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