August Ledwig von Senarclens-Green – Wikipedia
August Ludwig Freiherr von Senarclens-Grancy (Born August 19, 1794 in Etoy Castle in Vaud in the French-speaking western Switzerland as Auguste Louis de Senarclens-Grancy, † October 3, 1871 in Heiligenberg Castle; Jugenheim) was a German officer and court official. Senarclens-Grancy is considered a possible extramarital father of Prince Alexander von Hessen-Darmstadt and thus the “illegitimate ancestor” of the Battenberg/Mountbatten house.
Senarclens-Grancy, who came from a Vaud Uradels family, was a son of César-Auguste de Senarclens-Grancy (1763–1836) and his wife Louise Marie de Loriol (1773–1836). His brother Adolf Wilhelm Ferdinand Heinrich von Senarclens-Grancy (1805-1863) was a Hessian diplomat.
After a longer military career, in which he made it to Major General a la Suite, he took over the post as senior stable and riding instructor of the Grand Ducal Prince at the end of the 1810s. After 1830 he followed his beloved Wilhelmine Luise von Baden, Grand Duchess of Hesse and near Rhein, and took his residence in the former rectory next to the mountain church below Schloss Heiligenberg in Jugenheim near Darmstadt. [first]
The wife of the Hessian sovereign, Grand Duke Ludwig II of Hesse and near Rhein, lived after the birth of her first two sons, the heir to the throne Ludwig III. and Prince Karl von Hessen-Darmstadt, separated from her husband. Senarclens-Grancy is often attributed to the founder of the Battenberg house for Wilhelmine Luise, the founder of Battenberg, due to the historically guaranteed liaison, which she led in a kind of second marriage. For this reason, Senarclens-Grancy is occasionally as a “illegitimate ancestor of the Battenberg house”, to whose descendants among other Louis Mountbatten, 1. Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the British prince-grave Prince Philip and King Charles III. belong, traded.
In addition, Senarclens-Grancy is attributed to the illegitimate paternity for Wilhelmine Luise’s daughter Elisabeth Karoline (1821–1826) and Marie (1824–1880), the later wife of Tsar Alexander II. Another daughter died in 1822 shortly after birth.
Grand Duchess Luise Wilhelmine died on January 27, 1836. Then Senarclens-Grancy married a half-north of the first Bavarian king, Countess Luise of Otting and Fünfetten (1810–1876), daughter of Karl Friedrich Stephan von Otting, Fünfetten and Schönfeld, on November 15th 1836. The following children emerged from this marriage:
- Wilhelmine Marie (born August 11, 1837, † November 22, 1912), chief court champion of the Grand Duchess
- Ludwig von Senarclens-Grancy (born June 9, 1839, † February 2, 1910) ⚭ 1870 Amalie Freiin von Löw zu Steinfurth (born April 3, 1852; † August 7, 1936), director of the province of Starkenburg of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- Marie Wilhelmine (born June 9, 1840, † July 6, 1908) ⚭ 1871 Heinrich von Hesse (born April 19, 1827, † March 12, 1895), Prussian general major
- Heinrich Adolf Ludwig (born July 31, 1845), went to Java
- Albert Ludwig Friedrich (born February 9, 1847, † January 20, 1901), Prussian Major General, Adjutant of the Grand Duke ∞ Barones Antoniette Wilhelmine de Senarclens de Grancy (born January 12, 1852, † January 1914)
- Constance Marie Wilhelmine (born September 11, 1852) ⚭ 1881 Karl Friedrich von Oertzen (born January 22, 1844, † November 9, 1914)
- Günter Baisch, Claudia Schäfer: Jugenheim. The Heiligenberg and the Battenberger. Transport and beautification association Jugenheim 1863 e.V., Seeh.-Jugenheim 2011, without ISBN.
- Hans Buchmann: Jugenheim, Balkhausen and the Heiligenberg – from the chronicle of the municipalities of Jugenheim and Balkhausen. Ed. Transport and beautification association Jugenheim a.d.B. 1863 e.V., 1st edition, Handel printing Horn, Jugenheim 1978, 488 pages without ISBN.
- Gothaic genealogical paperback of the Freiherring houses on the year 1862 S. 313 , 1891 S.850
- Senarclens-Grancy, August Ludwig Freiherr von. Hessian biography. In: State history information system Hessen (Lagis).
- ↑ Buchmann: Jugenheim, Balkhausen and Heiligenberg S. 316
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