- Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa
Emanuele dei Principi Ruspoli (
Rome ,December 30 ,1838 –November 29 ,1899 ) was the 1st Principe diPoggio Suasa , son of Bartolomeo dei Principi Ruspoli and wife Carolina Ratti and paternal grandson ofFrancesco Ruspoli, 3rd Prince of Cerveteri and second wife HIH Leopoldina Gräfin von Khevenhüller-Metsch and ancestor of the Line III of the Principi Ruspoli. His great-uncle wasBartolomeo Ruspoli . He was also a great-great-grandfather ofactor Bart Ruspoli .Marriages and children
He married firstly in
Rome ,June 10 ,1864 Caterina Vogorides-Konaki (Athens ,April 2 ,1831 –Rome ,February 22 ,1870 ), a Greek woman, by whom he had five children:*Costantino dei Principi Ruspoli (
Rome ,January 14 ,1865 –Rome ,April 29 ,1888 /1889), unmarried and without issue
*Eugenio dei Principi Ruspoli (Ţigăneşti /Ziganesk,January 6 ,1866 – killed by anelephant during ahunting nearBurgi ,Somalia ,December 4 ,1893 ), unmarried and without issue
*Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa
*Caterina dei Principi Ruspoli (Ţigăneşti /Ziganesk,November 15 ,1868 –Rome ,August 7 ,1912 ), married inRome ,January 8 ,1887 Albert, Comte de la Fôret-Divonne (Paris ,December 18 ,1859 –January 11 ,1943 )
*Margherita dei Principi Ruspoli (Genoa ,February 7 ,1870 –June 5 ,1970 ), married inRome ,June 6 ,1889 Walfredo, Conte della Gherardesca, Conte diDonoratico eCastagneto (1865 – 1932), and had issueHe married secondly in
Rome ,July 14 ,1878 Laura Caracciolo dei Principi diTorella Duchi diLavello Marchesi di Bella (Naples ,September 17 ,1854 – of postchildbirth complications,Rome ,January 16 ,1882 ), by whom he had an only son:*
Camillo Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Candriano He married thirdly in
Paris ,June 18 ,1885 Josephine Mary Curtiss (Paris , January, 1861 – ?), anEnglish American , daughter of Joseph Davis Beers Curtiss and wife Elizabeth Shipton Giles, whose paternal grandfather Lewis Curtiss was distantly related to PresidentGeorge Walker Bush and First LadyBarbara Bush and whose paternal grandmother Mary Elizabeth Beers was distantly related to John andWilliam Tecumseh Sherman ,Robert Borden ,Robert Treat Paine ,genealogist Clarence Almon Torrey ,Harriet Beecher Stowe ,Henry Ward Beecher ,Clara Barton ,James Russell Lowell ,Robert Lowell ,John Forbes Kerry ,Tennessee Williams and alsoSir Winston Churchill , by whom he had three children:*
Francesco Alvaro Maria Giorgio Ruspoli, 1st Duke of Morignano
*Vittoria dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome ,December 31 ,1892 –Rome ,January 13 ,1982 ), married inRome ,December 4 ,1912 and divorced in 1930 Roger de Dampierre, Vicomte de Dampierre, 2nd Duca di San Lorenzo and "Nobile" diViterbo (Tours ,May 9 ,1892 –Chaumont-sur-Tharonne ,December 14 ,1975 ), and had an only daughter:
**"Victoire Jeanne Joséphine Emmanuelle de Dampierre (Rome ,November 8 ,1913 –), abusinesswoman , married firstly inRome ,March 4 ,1935 and divorced inBucharest in 1947 (recognized by the ItalianCourt s in 1949 but never recognized inSpain , where divorce was forbidden) as his first wifeInfante Jaime, Duke of Segovia , and had issue, and secondly onNovember 21 ,1949 Antonio Sozzanni, without issue"
*Eugenio Mario Giuseppe Bartolomeo dei Principi Ruspoli (Senigallia ,July 26 ,1894 – 1978), married in 1924 Marie Dorothée Dupré-Labauchère (Paris ,February 4 ,1884 –September 27 ,1944 ), and had an only daughter:
**Francesca dei Principi Ruspoli (Varese ,July 24 ,1925 –), married inRome ,August 6 ,1946 and divorced Giulio, Principe Rocco di Torrepadula (Rome ,March 21 ,1916 –)External links
* [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/ruspoli.html Ruspoli Genealogy]
* [http://www.geneall.net/I/per_page.php?id=196565 Emanuele Ruspoli on a genealogical site]
* [http://www.wargs.com/political/bush.html Josephine Mary Curtiss' relation to President George Walker Bush]ee also
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