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Walderdorff
Noble dynasty
Founded
Being first mentioned as member of the Uradel 1198, Rhineland
826 years ago
Titles
Imperial Knight of Walderdorff
Count of Walderdorff
Connected families
Hilton family
Traditions
Catholicism
Estate(s)
Molsberg Castle
The House of Walderdorff is the name of an old and distinguished German noble family, whose members occupied many important ecclesiastical positions within the Holy Roman Empire.
Since the 17th century the family has been residing on Molsberg Castle in the then Duchy of Nassau. Later several members settled and became wealthy residing in Hesse as well as in the Kingdom of Bavaria and Kingdom of Prussia.
In the 20th century one branch originally from Wiesbaden settled in the United States of which Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorf is an offspring. She would marry Barron Hilton II of the Hilton family.
The House of Walderdorff is the name of an old and distinguished German noble family, whose members occupied many important ecclesiastical positions within...
Johann Philipp von Walderdorff (24 or 26 May 1701 – 12 January 1768) was a German nobleman who served as Archbishop and Elector of Trier from 1756 and...
Count Rudolf von Walderdorff (died 1866) was an Austrian malacologist and entomologist. He was a member of the Walderdorff family, a noble German family...
Wilderich Freiherr von Walderdorff (14 January 1617, Würzburg – 4 September 1680, Vienna) from the Walderdorff family was Prince-Bishop of Vienna and...
German politician Tessa Giele (born 2002), Dutch swimmer Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff (born 1994), German countess Tessa Hadley (born 1956), British author...
(1701–1751), who was head chef at the court of Johann IX Philipp von Walderdorff, Archbishop of Trier. Beethoven was born of this marriage in Bonn, at...
Ehrenbreitstein. She was the daughter of the head chef to Johann IX Philipp von Walderdorff, Archbishop-Elector of Trier, whose court was there, and she had family...
1983) Barron Hilton II (born November 7, 1989), who married Tessa von Walderdorff Conrad Hughes Hilton (born March 3, 1994) They lived in Bel Air, Los...
Franz Ludwig Marschall von Bieberstein 1806 1834 Carl Wilderich von Walderdorff [de] 1834 1842 Friedrich Anton Georg Karl von Bock und Hermsdorf [de]...
1716–29 Franz Georg von Schönborn-Buchheim 1729–56 Johann IX Philipp von Walderdorff 1756–68 Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony 1768–1803 Holy Roman Empire...
(Visentin), with the title of Viscount Wagensperg Waldburg(-Zeil-Trauchberg) Walderdorff Waldstein (or Waldstein-Wartenberg) (von Wallis), also carried title...
director Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff – American socialite, writer, and actress who is a member of the Austrian noble family Walderdorff Billy Wilder – director...
Graf Kurtz von Senftenau, Vice Chancellor (1637–1659) Wilderich von Walderdorff, Vice Chancellor (1660–1669) Leopold Wilhelm Graf von Königsegg-Rothenfels...
territories including Isenburg were passed on by Fulda to the Counts of Walderdorff. They had to share them according to a later agreement with the Counts...
John IX of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen, 1575–1623 Johann IX. Philipp von Walderdorff This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name...
son with the local noble families, the powerful lords of Bicken [de], Walderdorff [de] and Haiger [de], although she herself did not disdain to take up...
"Huttig" (town wall tower remnant) Former noble estate of the Counts of Walderdorff at Fahrgasse 5 Limburg an der Lahn is twinned with: Lichfield, England...
Paris and immigrant from France Mari Blanchard, actress Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff (born 1994), actress of French, Swiss, Dutch and German ancestry Rudolph...
(1787–1870), was a career soldier. His mother, the Countess Melanie von Walderdorff (1795-1868), also came from a prominent ancient family. He concluded...
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