Karl, 4th Prince Paar

Karl Wenzel Ludwig von Paar, 4th Prince Paar (6 January 1806 – 17 January 1881), also Baron of Hartberg and Krottenstein, was an Austrian aristocrat.

Early life

Paar von Hartberg und Krottenstein was born on 6 January 1806 in Brieg in the Principality of Brieg, Province of Silesia,[a] into the Paar family.[1] He was the third son of Johann Karl Josef Anton Veit von Paar, 3rd Prince Paar (1773–1819) and Countess Guidobaldine von Cavriani (1783–1861).[2] Among his siblings were Count Alfred von Paar, a Chamberlain, Privy Councillor and Lieutenant Field Marshal; Countess Guidobaldine von Paar (who married Count Franz Seraphin von Kuefstein, Privy Councillor, Chamberlain and Chief Court Master);[3] Count Wenzel von Paar, a Major in the Austrian Army;[4][5] and Count Ludwig von Paar, a diplomat who married Countess Maria Anna Esterházy von Galántha.[6][7]

His paternal grandparents were Princess Maria Antonia of Liechtenstein (a daughter of Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein). His maternal grandparents were Count Ludwig Franz Cavriani and Johanna Terezie Novohradský of Kolowrat (a daughter of František Ferdinand Novohradský of Kolowrat).

Career

He was the owner of the Lordships of Hartberg and Stein in Styria, as well as Bechin, Kardarzetschiz, Ždiar, Zdechowitz, Gross-Jerschitz, and Hohen-Wessely in Bohemia. He was the last to hold the title of Obersthof and Hereditary Grand-Master of the Posts of the Imperial Court.[1]

The prince served as Chamberlain since 1830, and a Privy Councillor and hereditary member of the House of Lords since 1861.[8] In 1862, he was awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece. He sold the pension associated with his title of General Postmaster to the Court Chamber (German: Hofkammer).[9]

Personal life

On 1832, Paar was married to Princess Ida Leopoldine Sophie Marie Josephine Franziska of Liechtenstein, youngest daughter of Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein and Landgravine Josepha of Fürstenberg-Weitra. Together, they were the parents of:

  • Countess Guidobaldine Josepha Sophia Maria von Paar (1833–1904), who died unmarried.
  • Karl Johann Wenzel von Paar, 5th Prince Paar (1834–1917), who married Margravine Leopoldine Carolina Maria Justiniana von Pallavicini, in 1866.
  • Countess Eleonore Ida Marie von Paar (1835–1913), who married Count Ernst Karl von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, the son of Count Henrich von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, and Countess Felicia Zichy von Zich und Vásonkeö, in 1856.[10]
  • Count Rudolph Johann Baptist Liberat von Paar (1836–1873), who married Countess Antonia Theresia Brigitta von Meraviglia-Crivelli in 1864.[11] After her death in 1867, he married Countess Anna Maria von Stürgkh in 1872.[12]
  • Count Eduard Maria Nicolaus von Paar (1837–1919), Adjutant General of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.
  • Countess Josephine Marie Baldine Caroline Ida von Paar (1839–1916), who married Count Ladislaus Joseph Maria Nikolaus Eugen Franz de Paula Severin von Falkenhayn, in 1861. After his death in 1865, she married Eugen Jaromir Czernin von und zu Chudenitz in 1879.
  • Count Alois Marie Carl Felician von Paar (1840–1909), General of the Cavalry.
  • Countess Francisca de Paula Ida Maria Monica (1842–1881), who married Count Leopold Adalbert Franz Menrad Felix von Podstatzky-Lichtenstein in 1862.
  • Countess Maria Josepha Quido Baldina von Paar (1843–1914)
  • Countess Leontine Maria Ida Quido Baldine von Paar (1844–1912), who married Count Oswald August Ernst Adolph Karl von Kielmansegg in 1867.
  • Countess Henriette Eleonora Josepha Maria von Paar (1848–1848), who died young.
  • Countess Sophia Maria Josepha Ida Domicilla von Paar (1850–1874), who married Count Karl Olivier Zdenko Friedrich Anna Wallis von Carrighmain in 1873.

Paar died on 17 January 1881 in at Bechyně in southern Bohemia (today the Czech Republic) and was succeeded by his eldest son, Karl.[1]

References

Notes
  1. ^ Today, Brieg (Brzeg) is in the Opole Voivodeship in southwestern Poland.
Sources
  1. ^ a b c Constantin von Wurzbach: "Paar, Karl Fürst (geb. 1806)." In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (Biographical Lexicon of the Empire of Austria).  Part 21 Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, p. 147 (digitalised).
  2. ^ Constantin von Wurzbach: "Paar, Karl Fürst (General-Major)." In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (Biographical Lexicon of the Empire of Austria).  Part 21 Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, p. 150 (digitalised).
  3. ^ Svoboda, Johann (1894). Die Theresianische Militär-Akademie zu Wiener-Neustadt und ihre Zöglinge von der Gründung der Anstalt bis auf unsere Tage: 2 (in German). Kaiserl.-Königl. Hof- u. Staatsdr. p. 358. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
  4. ^ Hersholt, Jean (1954). Catalog of the Jean Hersholt Collection of Hans Christian Andersen: Original Manuscripts, Letters, First Editions, Presentation Copies, and Related Materials. Library of Congress. p. 39. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
  5. ^ Andersen, Hans Christian (1998). Mein edler, theurer Grossherzog!: Briefwechsel zwischen Hans Christian Andersen und Grossherzog Carl Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (in German). Wallstein Verlag. pp. 20, 22, 36. ISBN 978-3-89244-271-4. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
  6. ^ Genealogisches Taschenbuch der deutschen gräflichen Häuser auf das Jahr ... (in German). Justus Perthes. 1860. p. 245. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
  7. ^ Schlözer, Leopold von (1925). Dorothea von Schlözer: ein deutsches Frauenleben um die Jahrhundertwende, 1770-1825 (in German). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. p. 353. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
  8. ^ "Kurzbiografie von Paar | Parlament Österreich". www.parlament.gv.at (in German). Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  9. ^ Schönfeld, Ignaz von (1825). Adelsschematismus des österreichischen Kaiserstaates (in German). Schaumburg. p. 34f. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  10. ^ The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe. Harrison & Sons. 1914. p. 1540. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  11. ^ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der gräflichen Häuser (in German). Perthes. 1868. p. 11. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  12. ^ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der gräflichen Häuser (in German). Justus Perthes. 1889. p. 1008. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
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