Descendants of
Jean de Ligne, Baron de Barbancon
and Countess Margarethe von der Marck,
Princesse d'Arenberg
(gen 9-14 of 14 generations)
 
 

       IX-1 (VIII-1-2) 
        (2) 1  Princesse & Duchesse Louise d'Arenberg 
               Born 18 December 1820 
               Died 11 May 1853 

            2  Princesse & Duchesse Marie d'Arenberg 
               Born 2 March 1823 Bruxelles                 
               Died 3 August 1861 Frascati 
               Married 9 August 1841 Heverle 
               Don Camillo, Principe Aldobrandini, son of Don Francesco, 
               Principe Borghese and Adele de La Rochefoucauld 
               Born 16 November 1816 Firenze 
               Died 5 June 1902 Rome 

            3  Engelbert Auguste 
               8.Duc d'Arenberg 
               Born 11 May 1824 Bruxelles 
               Died 28 March 1875 Heverle                                                   
               Married 27 May 1868 Wien 
               Princess & Duchess Eleonore Ursula d'Arenberg, daughter of 
               Prince & Duc Ernest Engelbert d'Arenberg and Princess 
               Sophie von Auersperg 
               Born 19 February 1845 Wien 
               Died 28 November 1919 Montreux 
                         Children, Generation X-1 

            4  Prince & Duc Antoine Francois d'Arenberg        
               Born 5 February 1826 Bruxelles 
               Died 12 October 1910 Marche-les-Dames 
               Married 23 August 1847 Bruxelles 
               Comtesse Marie de Merode, daughter of Comte Werner de 
               Merode and Comtesse Victoire de Spangen d'Uyternesse 
               Born 19 November 1830 Bruxelles 
               Died 4 September 1892 Marche-les-Dames 
                         Children, Generation X-2 
                                                            
            5  Prince & Duc Charles Pierre d'Arenberg 
               Born 3 July 1829 
               Died 6 March 1831 

            6  Prince & Duc Charles d'Arenberg 
               Born 6 September 1831 Bruxelles 
               Died 9 June 1896 Bruxelles 
               Married 16 January 1876 Ivanka nr Presburg                                    
               Countess Julie Hunyady de Kethely 
               Born 28 August 1831 
               Died 19 February 1919 
                         S.P. 
                                                                          
            7  Prince & Duc Josef d'Arenberg 
               Born 8 August 1833 Enghien 
               Died 3 October 1896 
               Married 14 August 1865 Wien 
               Princess Franziska von und zu Liechtenstein, daughter of 
               Karl, Fuerst von und zu Liechtenstein and Countess Franzisca 
               von Wrbna und Freudenthal 
               Born 30 October 1833 Wien                                                     
               Died 6 June 1894 Chateau Hacking 
                         Children, Generation X-3

       IX-2 (VIII-1-4) 
        (1) 1  Princesse & Duchesse Marie d'Arenberg 
               Born 15 November 1830 Maffliers, Seine et Oise 
               Died 11 July 1905 Westerloo 
               Married 7 October 1849 Paris 
               Comte Charles de Merode, 4.Prince de Grimberghe, son of            
               Comte Henri de Merode, 3.Prince de Grimberghe and Louise 
               Jeanne de Thesan 
               Born 1 August 1824 Everberg 
               Died 6 April 1892 Bruxelles 

            2  Prince & Duc Ernest Marie d'Arenberg 
               Born 23 July 1833 Paris 
               Died 16 March 1838 Paris 
       
            3  Prince & Duc Auguste d'Arenberg 
               Born 15 September 1837 Paris 
               Died 24 January 1924 Paris 
               Married 18 June 1868 Paris 
               Jeanne de Greffulhe, daughter of Comte Louis Charles de 
               Greffulhe and Felicite de La Rochefoucauld 
               Born 20 March 1850 Paris 
               Died 24 March 1891 Paris                                       
                         Children, Generation X-4   

            4  Prince & Duc Louis d'Arenberg 
               Born 15 September 1837 Paris 
               Died 7 May 1870 St.Petersburg (murdered) 

       IX-3 (VIII-2-1) 
        (1) 1  Princesse & Duchesse Marie d'Arenberg 
               Born 15 January 1802                                       
               Died 17 June 1841 

        (2) 2  Princess & Duchess Eleonore Ursula d'Arenberg 
               Born 19 February 1845 Wien 
               Died 28 November 1919 Montreux 
               Married 27 May 1868 Wien 
               Engelbert Auguste, 8.Duc d'Arenberg, son of Prosper Louis, 
               7.Duc d'Arenberg and Princess Ludmilla von Lobkowicz 
               Born 11 May 1824 Bruxelles                    
               Died 28 March 1875 Heverle 

            3  Princesse & Duchesse Louise d'Arenberg 
               Born 6 November 1846 
               Died 3 January 1855 

        X-1 (IX-1-3) 
            1  Princess & Duchess Ludmilla d'Arenberg      
               Born 29 June 1870 Heverle 
               Died 9 September 1953 Auderghem 
               Married 25 April 1888 Bruxelles 
               Carl Alfred, 12.Duke von Croy, son of Rudolf, 11.Duc de 
               Croy, Prince de Solre and Princess Nathalie de Ligne 
               Born 29 January 1859 Bruxelles 
               Died 28 September 1906 Castle Karapancsa, Hungary 

            2  Princess & Duchess Sophie d'Arenberg                  
               Born 26 July 1871 Salzburg 
               Died 29 May 1961 Duesseldorf 
               Married 24 September 1889 Heverle 
               Prince & Duke Jean d'Arenberg, son of Prince & Duc Antoine 
               Francois d'Arenberg and Comtesse Marie de Merode 
               Born 18 October 1850 Bruxelles 
               Died 2 April 1914 Duesseldorf 

            3  Engelbert              
               9.Duc d'Arenberg 
               Born 10 August 1872 Salzburg 
               Died 15 January 1949 Lausanne 
               Married 14 October 1897 Bruxelles 
               Princess Hedwige de Ligne, daughter of Prince Charles de 
               Ligne and Charlotte de Gontaut-Biron 
               Born 4 May 1877 Paris 
               Died 22 September 1938 Neuilly sur Seine 
                         Children, Generation XI-1  

            4  Princess & Duchess Marie Salvatrix d'Arenberg 
               Born 26 April 1874 Heverle 
               Died 9 May 1956 Chateau de Roeulx 
               Married 2 December 1896 Heverle 
               Prince Auguste de Croy, son of Prince Gustave de Croy and 
               Louise de Croix 
               Born 18 October 1872 Roeulx                                  
               Died 4 June 1932 Paris 

            5  Prince & Duc Charles Prosper d'Arenberg 
               Born 12 March 1875 Heverle 
               Died 2 July 1948 Bruxelles 
               Married (1) 1 December 1917 Muenchen Div.1920 
               Emilie Marie Willner, daughter of Martin Willner and Marie 
               Bertele 
               Born 25 September 1885 Kempten, Allgau 
               Married (2) 15 November 1923 
               Anka Baric 
               Born 14 April 1893 Petrovoselo, Yougoslavia 
                         S.P. 

        X-2 (IX-1-4) 
            1  Prince & Duc Philippe d'Arenberg 
               Born 17 June 1848 Heverle 
               Died 11 August 1906 Wien 

            2  Prince & Duc Francois d'Arenberg 
               Born 29 September 1849 Heverle 
               Died 25 March 1907 Castle Pesch nr Osterath 

            3  Prince & Duke Jean d'Arenberg 
               Born 18 October 1850 Bruxelles                 
               Died 2 April 1914 Duesseldorf 
               Married 24 September 1889 Heverle 
               Princess & Duchess Sophie d'Arenberg, daughter of Engelbert 
               Auguste, 8.Duc d'Arenberg and Princess & Duchess Eleonore 
               Ursula d'Arenberg 
               Born 26 July 1871 Salzburg 
               Died 29 May 1961 Duesseldorf 
                         Children, Generation XI-2 
                                
            4  Princesse & Duchesse Pauline d'Arenberg 
               Born 9 May 1852 Bruxelles 
               Died 5 July 1921 La Hulpe, Brabant 

            5  Princesse & Duchesse Alice d'Arenberg 
               Born 2 July 1854 Enghien 
               Died 31 January 1869 Bruxelles 
                                                      
            6  Prince & Duc Charles d'Arenberg 
               Born 23 January 1858 Bruxelles 
               Died 10 May 1933 La Hulpe, Brabant 

        X-3 (IX-1-7) 
            1  Princesse & Duchesse Franziska d'Arenberg 
               Born 23 January 1867 
               Died 11 March 1867                                                       

        X-4 (IX-2-3) 
            1  Princesse & Duchesse Alix Jeanne d'Arenberg 
               Born 15 April 1869 Paris 
               Died 7 December 1924 Paris 
               Married 2 June 1888 Paris 
               Pierre Adolphe, Marquis de Laguiche, son of Philibert 
               Bernard, Marquis de Laguiche and Mathilde de Rochechouart 
               de Mortemart                                    
               Born 15 June 1859 Paris 
               Died 12 March 1940 Chaumont, Saone-et-Loire 

            2  Prince & Duc Pierre d'Arenberg 
               Born 14 August 1871 Menetou-Salon, France 
               Died 3 August 1919 Paris 
               Married 11 June 1904 Paris 
               Emma de Gramont, daughter of Armand de Gramont, 4.Duc de 
               Lesparre and Helene Duchesne de Gillevoisin 
               Born 3 October 1883 Chateau Baillon, Asniere-sur-Oise 
               Died 1 October 1958 L'Hay-les-Roses 
                         Children, Generation XI-3

            3  Princesse & Duchesse Louise d'Arenberg 
               Born 23 November 1872 Menetou-Salon 
               Died 24 October 1958 Paris 
               Married 3 August 1892 Paris 
               Marquis Louis de Vogue 
               Born 16 January 1868 Versailles 
               Died 9 March 1948 Paris 

            4  Prince & Duc Ernest d'Arenberg 
               Born 3 March 1886 Paris 
               Died 20 March 1915 Combreux, Loire (in battle) 
               Married 1 June 1908 Paris 
               Therese de La Rochefoucauld, daughter of Comte Alexandre de 
               La Rochefoucauld, 4.Duc d'Estissac and Jeanne de 
               Rochechouart de Mortemart 
               Born 19 October 1888 Cambreux 
               Died 25 September 1958 La Fot, Creuse 
                         S.P. 

       XI-1 (X-1-3) 
            1  Engelbert Charles                                                 
               10.Duc d'Arenberg 
               Born 20 April 1899 Castle Heverle 
               Died 27 April 1974 Monte Carlo, Monaco 
               Married (1) 15 June 1939 Berlin-Charlottenburg 
               Valerie Marie zu Schleswig-Holstein, daughter of Albert, 
               Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and NN 
               Born 3 April 1900 Liptovsky-Svaty Mikulas 
               Died 14 August 1953 Mont-Boron, France 
               Married (2) 23 May 1955 Berchem-Antwerpen 
               Mathilde Callay, daughter of Henri Callay and Anna van       
               Aertselaar 
               Born 28 February 1913 Hemiksem 
                         S.P. 

            2  Erik 
               11.Duc d'Arenberg 
               Born 17 October 1901 Heverle 
               Married 20 August 1949 Lausanne 
               Marie Therese de La Poeze d'Harambure, daughter of Jean de 
               La Poeze d'Harambure and Madeleine Le Gouz de Sainte-Seine 
               Born 5 June 1911 Dijon 
                         S.P. 

            3  Princesse & Duchesse Lydia d'Arenberg 
               Born 1 April 1905 Bruxelles 
               Died 23 July 1977 Lausanne                                             
               Married 30 April 1928 Torino 
               Prince Filiberto de Savoie, Duke of Pistoia, Duke of Genoa, 
               son of Tommaso, Duke of Genoa, Prince of Savoie and 
               Princess Marie Elisabeth of Bavaria 
               Born 10 March 1895 Torino 
                         S.P. 

       XI-2 (X-2-3) 
            1  Prince & Duc Antoine Guillaume d'Arenberg
               Born 5 February 1891 Bruxelles 
               Died 2 February 1919 Arosa, Switzerland 

            2  Prince & Duc Evrard d'Arenberg 
               Born 18 February 1892 Bruxelles 
               Died 12 August 1969 Bruxelles 
               Married 25 August 1920 Lausanne 
               Countess Anne Louise de Merode, daughter of Comte Amaury 
               Werner de Merode and Pauline de La Rochefoucauld 
               Born 13 September 1894 Loverval, Hainault, Belgium 
               Died 18 November 1969 Bruxelles 
                         Children, Generation XII-1 

            3  Princesse & Duchesse Marie Eleonore d'Arenberg 
               Born 5 March 1894 Bruxelles 
               Died 24 July 1964 
                                                                                
            4  Prince & Duke Robert Prosper d'Arenberg 
               Born 10 August 1895 Castle Pesch 
               Died 24 February 1972 Muenchen 
               Married 21 March 1922 Muenchen 
               Fuerstin Gabriele von Wrede, daughter of Carl Philipp, 
               4.Fuerst von Wrede and Princess Anna von Lobkowicz 
               Born 26 June 1895 Ellingen 
               Died 14 November 1971 Muenchen 
                         Children, Generation XII-2                                            

            5  Prince & Duc Francois Leopold d'Arenberg 
               Born 21 April 1897 Castle Pesch 
               Died 28 July 1961 

            6  Prince & Duc Eugene Antoine d'Arenberg 
               Born 21 April 1897 Castle Pesch 
               Died 20 July 1970 Duesseldorf 
          
       XI-3 (X-4-2) 
            1  Prince & Duc Charles d'Arenberg 
               Born 27 May 1905 Paris 
               Died 11 June 1967 Paris 
               Married 29 December 1960 Paris 
               Margaret Wright Bedford, daughter of Frederick Henry 
               Bedford and Margaret Wright Stewart 
               Born 18 October 1932 New York, USA                              
               Died 16 October 1977 Saclay 
                         Children, Generation XII-3 

            2  Prince & Duc Armand d'Arenberg 
               Born 14 April 1906 Paris 
               Died 29 January 1985 Paris 
               Married 7 August 1941 Paris 
               Gabrielle de Lambertye-Gerbevillers, daughter of Charles 
               Edmond de Lambertye, Marquis de Gerbevillers and Loraine 
               Sancho-Mata y Contreras 
               Born 8 September 1920 Biarritz 
                         Children, Generation XII-4 

            3  Princesse & Duchesse Jeanne d'Arenberg 
               Born 3 July 1909 Paris 
               Died 13 August 1964 Larmor Baden, Morbihan, France 
               Married 11 July 1933 Paris                                                  
               Roland de Cosse Brissac, Marquis de Brissac, son of 
               Francois de Cosse, 11.Duc de Brissac, 4.Comte de Cosse 
               Brissac and Mathilde Renee de Crussol d'Uzes 
               Born 14 December 1898 Paris 
               Died 30 July 1936 Nantes 
                         S.P. 

      XII-1 (XI-2-2) 
            1  Prince & Duc Jean Engelbert d'Arenberg        
               Born 14 July 1921 's-Gravenhage 
               Married 18 January 1955 Berchtesgaden 
               Princess Sophie of Bavaria, daughter of Rupprecht, Crown 
               Prince of Bavaria and Princess Antonia von Luxemburg und 
               Nassau 
               Born 20 June 1935 Starnberg 
                         Children, Generation XIII-1

            2  Prince & Duc Antoine Guillaume d'Arenberg 
               Born 14 September 1923 's-Gravenhage 
               Married 29 November 1967 Madrid 
               Dona Maria Carvajal y Xifre, daughter of Don Francisco 
               Carvajal y Hurtado de Mendoza, Conde de Fontanar and Dona 
               Maria Xifre y Chacon, Marquesa de Isasi, Condesa de Campo 
               Alegre 
               Born 9 March 1917 Madrid 
               Died 8 November 1968 Madrid 
                         S.P.                

            3  Prince & Duc Etienne Evrard d'Arenberg 
               Born 18 February 1925 's-Gravenhage 

            4  Princesse & Duchesse Marie Elisabeth d'Arenberg 
               Born 21 January 1929 Muenchen 
               Died 7 November 1996 San Remo, Italy 
               Married 9 October 1958 Bruxelles                                           
               Don Guido Borea, dei Duchi Borea, Marchesi d'Olmo 
               Born 25 April 1925 San Remo 
 

      XII-2 (XI-2-4) 
            1  Princesse & Duchesse Rose Sophie d'Arenberg 
               Born 23 December 1922 Castle Pesch 
               Married 6 July 1943 Muenchen 
               Freiherr Karl Theodor von und zu Guttenberg, son of 
               Freiherr Georg Enoch von und zu Guttenberg and Freiin 
               Elisabeth von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen 
               Born 23 May 1921 Schloss Weissendorf 
               Died 4 October 1972 Guttenberg, OFranken 

            2  Princess & Duchess Anna Eugenie d'Arenberg 
               Born 5 July 1925 Chateau d'Ellingen 
               Died 9 June 1997 San Angel, Mexico 
               Married 19 November 1952 Beaulieu                           
               Archduke Felix of Austria, son of Karl I, Emperor of 
               Austria, King of Hungary and Princess Zita de Bourbon-Parma 
               Born 31 May 1916 Schoenbrunn 

      XII-3 (XI-3-1) 
            1  Prince & Duc Pierre d'Arenberg 
               Born 7 October 1961 Bern 
               Married (1) 1995 The Philippines Div. 
               Marie Christine Kraff de Laubarede                     
               Married (2) 11 October 1997 Bourges 
               Silvia de Castellane, daughter of Henri-Jean de Castellane 
               and Isabella de Rovasenda 
               Born 13 June 1963 Neuilly sur Seine 
                         S.P. 

      XII-4 (XI-3-2) 
            1  Princesse & Duchesse Marie Virtudes d'Arenberg 
               Born 9 June 1947 Paris 
               Married (1) 21 April 1967 Paris Div.27-6-1983 
               Louis Jean Loppin, Comte de Montmort 
               Born 11 October 1943 Paris 
               Died 18 May 1996 Rio de Janeiro 
               Married (2) 14 October 1983 Neuilly-sur-Seine 
               Georges Hervet 
               Born 5 June 1924 Bourges, Dept. Cher 
                                                                           
            2  Prince & Duc Charles Louis d'Arenberg 
               Born 20 February 1949 Paris 
               Married 25 October 1975 St.Cirq-Lapopie Div. 
               Philomene Toulouse, daughter of Pierre Toulouse and 
               Francoise Gabrielle Delvert 
               Born 9 January 1939 St.Cirq-Lapopie 
                         Children, Generation XIII-2

     XIII-1 (XII-1-1)                        
            1  Prince & Duc Leopold d'Arenberg 
               Born 20 February 1956 Tervuren 
               Married 30 June 1995 Pully, Kt.Waadt 
               Countess Isabel-Juliana zu Stolberg-Stolberg, daughter of 
               Count Wilhelm zu Stolberg-Stolberg and Princess Irina von 
               Isenburg 
               Born 7 June 1963 Aachen 
                         Children, Generation XIV-1 
                                 
            2  Prince & Duc Charles d'Arenberg 
               Born 13 March 1957 Tervuren 
               Married 26 November 1988 Firenze, Italy 
               Fiammetta Frescobaldi, daughter of Vittorio Frescobaldi, 
               dei Marchesi di Montecastello della Pineta and Bona Marchi 
               Born 22 May 1959 Firenze 
                         Children, Generation XIV-2  

            3  Prince & Duc Marie Gabrielle d'Arenberg 
               Born 2 June 1958 Tervuren 
               Married 27 January 1984 Lausanne 
               Comte Gilles Morel de Boncourt, son of Comte Gerard Morel 
               de Boncourt and Nicole Leclerc de Hautecloque 
               Born 10 May 1955 Chateau d'Humereuilles 

            4  Prince & Duc Henri d'Arenberg 
               Born 20 May 1961 Tervuren 
    
            5  Prince & Duc Etienne d'Arenberg 
               Born 11 December 1967 Bruxelles-Uccle 
               Married 17 September 1994 Abbaye de Bonmont, Kt.Waadt 
               Andrienne Keller, daughter of Pierre Keller and 
               Claire-Jeanne de Senarclens 
               Born 21 December 1970 Geneve 
                         S.P. 
                                                 
     XIII-2 (XII-4-2) 
            1  Princesse & Duchesse Marie d'Arenberg 
               Born 2 August 1977 Paris 

      XIV-1 (XIII-1-1) 
            1  Princesse & Duchesse Natasha d'Arenberg 
               Born 21 December 1996 Bruxelles 
                                                                            
      XIV-2 (XIII-1-2) 
            1  Princesse & Duchesse Anne-Helene d'Arenberg 
               Born 7 November 1989 London 

            2  Prince & Duc Evrard d'Arenberg 
               Born 18 January 1996 Lausanne 

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