• Philippe de Caraman-Chimay, 22nd Prince de Chimay (b. 1948). The main residence of the princely family is Chimay Castle (French: Château de Chimay), which...
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    Charles I de Croÿ (1455–1527), Count and later 1st Prince of Chimay, was a nobleman and politician from the Low Countries in the service of the House...
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  • Joseph Anatole Élie de Riquet et de Caraman, 19th Prince de Chimay (4 July 1858 – 25 July 1937), known as Joseph de Caraman-Chimay, the younger, was a...
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    noblewoman and socialite who became Princess of Chimay during her lifetime. She was born Juana María Ignacia Teresa de Cabarrús y Galabert in Carabanchel Alto...
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    Joseph de Riquet de Caraman, 17th Prince de Chimay (20 August 1808 – 12 March 1886) was a Belgian diplomat and industrialist. Joseph was the eldest son...
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    (Vilé-al-Tour) Virelles (Virele) Chimay Castle, the château of the princes of Chimay Lake Virelles The source of the Oise Chimay has traditionally hosted an...
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    François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet (21 September 1771 - 2 March 1843), as a French aristocrat who became the 16th Prince de Chimay from 24 July 1804 to 1843...
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    Marie-Joseph-Guy-Henry-Philippe de Riquet de Caraman, 18th Prince de Chimay (9 October 1836 – 29 March 1892), was a Belgian diplomat and politician. Prince Joseph was born...
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    Chimay Castle (French: Château de Chimay) is a château in Chimay, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium. The castle has been owned by the Prince of Chimay and his...
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    Gabriel Alphonse Ferdinand de Riquet (1810–1865), created prince de Chimay 1834, for himself only, and Rosalie de Riquet de Caraman (1814–1872)[citation...
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    and industrialist Joseph de Riquet de Caraman, 17th Prince de Chimay, and memoirist Émilie Pellapra, the widow of Comte de Brigode. From her parents'...
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  • 1940 during World War II. On 18 December 1947, she married Élie de Riquet, Prince de Chimay, a descendant of Pierre-Paul Riquet, the engineer responsible...
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  • and Viceroy of Navarre. He was the son of Philippe of Arenberg, 9th prince de Chimay, former governor of the Duchy of Luxembourg. His mother was Theodora...
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    Count Louis-Marie of Brigode and later married to Prince Joseph de Riquet de Caraman, 17th prince de Chimay. She was born in Lyon on November 11, 1806, the...
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    Mesdames de France. After this, her office was given to Madame d'Ossun. In 1762, she married Philippe Gabriel de Hénin-Liétard, prince de Chimay. She thus...
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    family of the Belgian high nobility, one of its branches was titled Prince of Chimay. Alliances were made with important Spanish noble families such as...
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  • industrialist Joseph de Riquet de Caraman, 17th Prince de Chimay. Through his son Théodore, he was a grandfather of Anne Antoine Gontran de Bauffremont-Courtenay...
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    Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan (1878–1929), who married Belgian Prince Alexandre de Caraman-Chimay (1873–1951), a son of Joseph de Caraman-Chimay, 18th Prince de Chimay...
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    daughter of Count Pierre Marie de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (a son of Joseph, 18th Prince de Chimay) and Marthe Mathilde Barbe Werlé (daughter of Alfred...
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    The Hôtel de Chimay, originally the Hôtel de La Bazinière, is a hôtel particulier, a type of large townhouse of France, built in 1635 on a site that is...
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    Riquet de Caraman families. Both families also owned Chimay Castle and the title of ‘prince de Chimay’, which once also belonged to Charles III. The Caraman...
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    December 1916) was a wealthy American socialite who married Joseph, Prince de Caraman-Chimay of Belgium. Clara Ward was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter...
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  • since 1929. Famous is prince Emmanuel de Merode, director of the Virunga National Park. Riquet, Prince de Chimay in 1824 and Prince de Caraman 1856 by primogeniture;...
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  • Party and MEP François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet (1771–1843), comte de Caraman was the 16th Prince de Chimay Pedro Riquet (1598–1640), Spanish composer...
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    Charles V (1458–1521) William de Croÿ (archbishop) (1497–1521) Philippe II de Croÿ (1496–1549) Charles de Croÿ, Prince of Chimay (1506–1564), Bishop of Tournai...
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    born in Paris, the daughter of Joseph de Riquet de Caraman, 18th Prince de Chimay (1836–1892) and his wife, Marie de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1834–1884). Through...
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    married Charles Louis Antoine de Hénin-Liénard, prince de Chimay Philippe Jules François Mancini (1676–1769), prince de Vergagne et du Saint Empire, then...
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    d'Alsace-Hénin-Liétard (Vicomtesse de Cambis; died 1808), wife of the Comte de Cambis and sister of the Prince de Chimay, he had another illegitimate daughter:...
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  • music in a Paris restaurant in 1896 while dining with her husband, Prince de Chimay. She ran off with Rigó, married him, divorced him, and later married...
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    Comte d'Artois, Louis XVI's brother, purchased the property from the Prince de Chimay. The Comte soon had the existing house torn down, with plans to rebuild...
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