Mathilde Stuyvesant
Mathilde Elizabeth Stuyvesant | |
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 Photograph of Mrs. Stuyvesant, c. 1915–1920. | |
| Born | Mathilde Gisele Elizabeth Löwenguth 29 November 1877 |
| Died | 10 July 1948 (aged 70) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Spouses | Willem Lodewijk Worbert van Wassenaer
(m. 1895; div. 1900)Prince Alexandre de Caraman-Chimay
(m. 1933) |
| Children | Lewis Rutherfurd Stuyvesant Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant |
| Parent(s) | Joseph Löwenguth Rosalie Humbert Löwenguth |
Mathilde, Princess Alexandre de Caraman Chimay (née Mathilde Gisele Elizabeth Löwenguth, formerly the Countess de Wassenaer and Mrs. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant) (29 November 1877 – 10 July 1948) was a French heiress and society leader who is known for her three marriages to wealthy and prominent men, a Dutch Count, an American heir, and a Belgian Prince.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Mathilde Gisele Elizabeth Löwenguth was born on 29 November 1877 in Strasbourg, Alsace, France.[1] She was a daughter of Joseph Löwenguth (or Loewenguth)[2] and the former Rosalie Humbert.[3]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Mathilde was married three times. Her first marriage was in Paris to a Willem Lodewijk Worbert, Graaf van Wassenaer (1852–1913) on 26 July 1895. He was born in Florence, Italy and was a son of Willem Lodewijk Worbert van Wassenaer and Maria Catharina Frederika van Rechteren-Limpurg.[4][5] Although most contemporary newspapers referred to her as a widow, she was actually divorced from her first husband around the year 1900. He actually outlived her second husband and died in Bathmen, Netherlands on 23 August 1913.
Second marriage
[edit | edit source]On 16 June 1902, she remarried to Rutherfurd Stuyvesant at St. George's Chapel on Albemarle Street in London.[6] The American Stuyvesant was a son of the lawyer and well-known astronomer Lewis Morris Rutherfurd and, his wife, Margaret Stuyvesant (née Chanler) Rutherfurd (the niece and adopted daughter of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant)[7][8] and was a direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of New Amsterdam in 1664. His first wife, the former Mary Pierrepont (a granddaughter of Peter Augustus Jay),[9][2] had died, along with their son, during childbirth in 1879.[2] Together, Mathilde and Rutherfurd lived primarily in New York (at 246 East 15th Street opposite Stuyvesant Square), at their country estate known as Tranquility Farms (near Hackettstown, New Jersey)[7] and abroad where she owned a villa in the South of France. They were the parents of two sons:
- Lewis Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (1903–1944),[10] who married Rosalie Stuyvesant Pillot in 1925, daughter of Peter Stuyvesant Pillot. The couple had one child, Peter Winthrop Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (1935–1970),[11][12] before they divorced in 1930.[13] He later married Elizabeth (née Larocque) Smith in 1934. She was the former wife of Schuyler Knowlton Smith and the daughter of Joseph Laroque.[14]
- Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (1905–1954), who did not marry. He was injured in a car accident in 1934.[15] He died aboard a ship just short of arriving at their destination to France.[16]
Her second husband Rutherfurd died suddenly while out for his customary morning walk in the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 4 July 1909.[17][18] His body was sent back to the United States for burial.[19]
Third marriage
[edit | edit source]After his death, she lived in Paris for several years,[20] and was active in American charities in France during World War I.[21] On 18 August 1933, she married for the third time to Belgian Prince Alexandre de Caraman-Chimay (1873–1951). Prince Alexandre was a son of Joseph de Caraman-Chimay, 18th Prince de Chimay and brother of Élisabeth, Countess Greffulhe and Joseph, Prince de Caraman-Chimay (married to American heiress Clara Ward).[22] He his first wife was Catherine Hélène, Princess Bassaraba de Brancovan (a daughter of Prince Grégoire),[23][24] who died in Paris in 1929, and was the mother of his only child, Prince Marc-Adolphe de Caraman-Chimay (1903–1992).[25]
The Princess Alexandre de Caraman Chimay died on 10 July 1948 at her home, 1170 Fifth Avenue in New York City.[26] She was buried in the Stuyvesant family plot at Tranquility Cemetery, New Jersey.[3] Her wealth was held in trust for her children and grandson.[27]
References
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External links
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- Portrait of Mrs. Rutherford Stuyvesant (d. 1948) by Richard Heidl at the New-York Historical Society
- Photograph of Prince and Princess Alexandre de Caraman-Chimay with their dogs, Los Angeles, 1935 at the California Digital Library
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