Princess & Duchess Pauline
d'Arenberg (1774-1810)
Born 2 September 1774 Caudenberg nr Bruxelles
Died 2 July 1810 Paris (burnt to death)
Married 25 May 1794 Heverle
Joseph Johann, 6.Fuerst zu Schwarzenberg, son of Johann
Joseph, Fuerst zu Schwarzenberg and Countess Maria Eleonore
zu Oettingen-Wallerstein
Born 27 June 1769 Wien
Died 19 December 1833 Frauenberg
Talented and artistic, she married Joseph Johann, Fuerst zu Schwarzenberg,
and became the mother of nine children. Even though her husband had fought
with Napoleon and lost properties to him, in 1810
he was made Ambassador in Paris where he attended Napoleon's marriage
to the Archduchess Marie Louise.
To celebrate this marriage, Joseph Johann gave a ball at the Embassy
on 1 July 1810. When a fire broke out, Pauline ran back to look for her
daughter in the burning ballroom, and incinerated; legend has it that the
nurse of Pauline's youngest child, who was in Krumlow, saw Pauline's ghost
appear at the very moment of her death.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
