Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino

Names
	German: Alexander Karl Egon Theobald Lamoral Johann Baptist Maria

Alessandro
Alessandro
	Prince Alexander of Thurn and Taxis in 1922
Duke of Castel Duino
Period	1923 – 11 March 1937
Predecessor	none
Successor	Raimundo
Born	8 July 1881; Schloss Mzell, Mzell, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Died	11 March 1937 (aged 55); Castel Duino, Duino, Kingdom of Italy
Spouse	Princess Marie de Ligne; Helen Holbrook Walker
Issue	Raimundo, 2nd Duke of Castel Duino; Prince Ludwig; Princess Margarete of Bourbon-Parma
Names
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,^{[citation needed]} full German name: Alexander Karl Egon Theobald Lamoral Johann Baptist Maria, Prinz von Thurn und Taxis^{[citation needed]} (8 July 1881 in Schloss Mzell, Mzell, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary^{[citation needed]} – 11 March 1937 in Castel Duino, Duino, Kingdom of Italy^{[citation needed]}) was a member of the Bohemian branch of the princely House of Thurn and Taxis.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[2]

Family[]

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[]

Alessandro’s first marriage was to Princess Marie 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)^[3] married Frances Goodyear (granddaughter of Buffalo, New York industrialist Charles W. Goodyear in 1939.^[4]^[5] They divorced in 1948.^[5] Together they had one son, “Sascha” Alexander Frederick Bradley, Prince of Torre e Tasso (1940-2011).^[6]
Princess Margarete of Thurn and Taxis (born at Château de Belœil on 8 November 1909 – died on 21 September 2006),^{[citation needed]} married Prince Gaetan 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[]

In 1932, in Vrana, Alessandro married American heiress Helena "Ella" Holbrook Walker.^[7]

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, Italy, and left it to the Rockefeller Foundation in her will.^[8]

Ancestry[]

showAncestors of Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino

References[]

^ No issue.
^ The Italian branch was included for the last time in: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels 85 (1984).
^ Genealogy Site
^ NYT https://www.nytimes.com/1939/06/23/archives/fanny-goodyear-wed-to-prince-on-june-10-married-to-louis-della.html
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Goodyear family Wiki page - see Family tree
^ Legacy memorial website. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charleston/obituary.aspx%3fn=alexander-torre-tasso-sasha&pid=153376550&fhid=6307
^ See Helena's bio on her memorial site at Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71512224/helena-holbrook-principessa_della_torre_e_tasso Otherwise, little content is available online to cite.
^ See copy of will on Rockefeller Foundation site https://rockfound.rockarch.org/digital-library-listing/-/asset_publisher/yYxpQfeI4W8N/content/first-codicil-to-my-will

Italian nobility
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
Preceded by new creation	Duke of Castel Duino 1923 – 11 March 1937	Succeeded by Raimundo

[1] No issue.

[2] The Italian branch was included for the last time in: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels 85 (1984).

[3] Genealogy Site

[4] NYT https://www.nytimes.com/1939/06/23/archives/fanny-goodyear-wed-to-prince-on-june-10-married-to-louis-della.html

[goodyear-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b Goodyear family Wiki page - see Family tree

[6] Legacy memorial website. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charleston/obituary.aspx%3fn=alexander-torre-tasso-sasha&pid=153376550&fhid=6307

[7] See Helena's bio on her memorial site at Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71512224/helena-holbrook-principessa_della_torre_e_tasso Otherwise, little content is available online to cite.

[8] See copy of will on Rockefeller Foundation site https://rockfound.rockarch.org/digital-library-listing/-/asset_publisher/yYxpQfeI4W8N/content/first-codicil-to-my-will

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show v t 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 Lamoral, 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 Prince Alexander (b. 1969)
10th generation	Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis