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Eugène de Ligne d'Amblise et d'Epinoy
President of the Senate
In office
25 March 1852 – 11 November 1879
Preceded byAugustin Dumon-Dumortier
Succeeded byCamille de Tornaco
Personal details
Born(1804-01-28)28 January 1804
Brussels, France
(now Belgium)
Died20 May 1880(1880-05-20) (aged 76)
Brussels, Belgium
Political partyLiberal Party
Prince of Ligne
Prince of Ligne
Reign13 December 1814 – 20 May 1880
PredecessorCharles-Joseph
SuccessorLouis
Spouse Amélie Mélanie de Conflans
​ ​(m. 1823; died 1833)​
Nathalie de Trazegnies
​ ​(m. 1834; died 1835)​
Princess Jadwiga Lubomirska
​ ​(m. 1836; died 1880)​
IssueHenri
Louis
Nathalie
Charles
Edouard
Isabelle
Marie Georgine
Names
Eugène François Charles Joseph Lamoral de Ligne
HouseHouse of Ligne
FatherPrince Louis-Eugène de Ligne
MotherLouise van der Noot, Countess de Duras

Eugène François Charles Joseph Lamoral de Ligne d'Amblise et d'Epinoy (28 January 1804 – 20 May 1880), 8th Prince of Ligne and of the Holy Roman Empire was a Belgian diplomat and liberal politician.

Early life

He was born in Brussels on 28 January 1804. He was the son of Louis Eugene Marie Lamoral, Prince of Ligne, and Countess Louise van der Noot de Duras.

Career

He lived in Vienna from 1834 until 1837. After his return to Belgium, he was named ambassador and sent to London for the coronation of Queen Victoria. He had a successful diplomatic career. In 1849 he was elected as a member of the Belgian parliament and was President of the Belgian Senate, in succession of Augustin Dumon-Dumortier, from 25 March 1852 until 18 July 1879. In 1863 the King named him Minister of State.

Personal life

Eugène was married three times. His first marriage was on 12 May 1823 to Amélie Mélanie de Conflans (1802–1833), a daughter of Charles Louis Gabriel de Conflans, Marquis d'Armentières and Amélie Gabrielle de Croÿ. Before her death in Florence in March 1833, they were the parents of:

  • Prince Henri Maximilien Joseph Charles Louis Lamoral (1824–1871), who married Marie Louise Marguerite de Talleyrand-Périgord, a daughter of Ernest de Talleyrand-Périgord. Ancestor of the elder branch of Ligne, and of Prince Charles of Luxembourg (born 2020).
  • Prince Louis (1827–1845), who died unmarried.

After the death of his first wife, he married Nathalie Charlotte Auguste de Trazegnies (1811–1835) on 28 July 1834, a daughter of Georges Philippe de Trazegnies, Marquess of Trazegnies and Countess Marie Louise van Maldeghem. His second wife died a few days after giving birth to their only child:

His third, and final, marriage was on 28 October 1836 to Princess Jadwiga Julia Wanda Lubomirska (1815–1895), a daughter of Polish Prince Henryk Ludwik Lubomirski, who settled in Austria, and Princess Teresa Czartoryska (daughter of Prince Józef Klemens Czartorysk). Together, they were the parents of:

He died in Brussels on 20 May 1880 and was buried in Belœil, near Château de Belœil, the estate of the House of Ligne. As his eldest son predeceased him in 1871, he was succeeded as Prince of Ligne by his grandson, Louis.

Descendants

Through his eldest son Prince Henri, he was a grandfather of Louis, 9th Prince of Ligne (1854–1918). Prince Henri also had an illegitimate child with the actress Sarah Bernhardt, Maurice Bernhardt (1864–1921), who married Princess Maria "Terka" Jabłonowska (daughter of Prince Karol Jabłonowski).

Through his daughter Princess Natalie, he was the grandfather of Princess Isabella of Croÿ (1856–1931), who married Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen.

Through his son Prince Edouard, he was a grandfather of Prince Albert de Ligne (1874–1957), the Belgian Ambassador to the United States.

He is also an ancestor of the future monarch of Luxembourg.

Honours

National
Foreign

See also

References

  1. "/Eugène de Ligne" (in French). rolo.eu.
  2. ^ Mons, Cercle archéologique de (1867). Annales du Cercle Archéologique de Mons (in French). Imprimerie de Masquillier et Lamir. p. 334. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  3. Godsey, William D. (1999). Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War. Purdue University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-55753-140-7. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  4. Reed, Vivian (23 November 2020). An American in Europe at War and Peace: Hugh S. Gibson's Chronicles, 1918-1919. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 675. ISBN 978-3-11-067227-5. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  5. The Peerage of the British Empire for 1882: With the Orders of Knighthood. Nichols. 1882. p. 165. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  6. Lodge, Edmund (1907). The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire for 1907. Kelly's Directories. p. 567. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  7. Annuaire de la noblesse de France (in French). Au Bureau de la publication. 1896. p. 156. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  8. Silverthorne, Elizabeth (2003). Sarah Bernhardt. Infobase Publishing. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-4381-2416-2. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  9. King, Greg; Woolmans, Sue (3 September 2013). The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World. Macmillan. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-250-00016-3. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  10. "NEW BELGIAN ENVOY HERE WITH FAMILY; Prince Albert de Ligne Says He Hopes to Promote Friendliness Between Two Countries. LONG IN DIPLOMATIC WORK Also Is Raising Coffee on Land Grant in Belgian Congo -- Goes to Washington Today". The New York Times. 17 October 1927. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  11. Almanach royal de Belgique: Classé Et Mis En Ordre Par H. Tarlier
  12. Almanach royal officiel: 1875
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  17. Indépendance Belge (L') 6 December 1838
  18. Almanach royal officiel: 1875
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  20. Almanach royal officiel: 1875

Sources

  • Eugène de Ligne d'Amblise et d'Epinoy, archived from the original on 27 December 2010, retrieved 18 December 2016
  • De Ligne, Albert (1940), Le prince Eugène de Ligne 1804–1880 (Universelle ed.), Brussels, p. 404{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • De Paepe, Jean-Luc; Raindorf-Gérard, Christiane, eds. (1996), Le Parlement Belge 1831–1894. Données Biographiquesb, Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique, pp. 166–167
  • Douxchamps, José (2003), Présence nobiliaire au parlement belge (1830–1970), Notes généalogiques (in French), Wépion, Namen: José Douxchamps, p. 74
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Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne House of LigneBorn: 28 January 1804 Died: 20 May 1880
Titles of nobility in Belgium
Preceded byCharles-Joseph Prince of Ligne
1814–1880 		Succeeded byLouis
Political offices
Preceded byAugustin Dumon-Dumortier President of the Senate
1852–1879 		Succeeded byCamille de Tornaco
Princes of Ligne
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