Prince Edouard de Lobkowicz

Prince Edouard de Lobkowicz (12 June 1926, New York City - 2 April 2010, Paris) was a member of the House of Lobkowicz, an investment banker, and an ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Early life

Lobkowicz was the elder son of Prince Eduard von Lobkowicz (1899-1959) and of his American wife Anita Lihme (1903-1976). Since he was born in the United States, he held American citizenship. He was baptised with the names Maria Eduard August Joseph Wilhelm Ignatius Patricius Hubertus Kaspar.[1]

Lobkowicz was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague in Paris.[2] From 1944 to 1947 he served in the United States Army. He then completed his tertiary education at the University of Paris and at Harvard University.[2]

Banking career

From 1951 to 1958 Lobkowicz worked at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.[2] In 1960 he became assistant to the director of the investment firm A. L. Stamm, and in 1963 delegate for Europe and the Middle East of the same firm.[2] In 1969 he transferred to Coleman and Co.[2] From 1972 to 1989 he worked for Stralem and Co.[2]

Marriage and family

On 11 December 1959, at Besson, Allier, France, Lobkowicz was married civilly to Princess Marie-Françoise of Bourbon-Parma, eldest daughter of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma and of his wife, Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset. A religious wedding followed on 7 January 1960, in Notre Dame de Paris;[1] this was the first marriage of a member of the House of Bourbon at Notre Dame since the 1816 wedding of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, to Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily.

Lobkowicz and Marie-Françoise had four children:[1]

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Lobkowicz was an active member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He entered the order as a Knight of Honour and Devotion, but later became a Knight in Obedience.[1] Eventually he advanced to the degree of a knight grand cross.[1]

In 1980 Lobkowicz was appointed the Order's ambassador to Lebanon, a position he held until 1990.[5] In 1981 he set up the Order's Lebanese Association.[6] In 1987 Lobkowicz and his wife founded the Association Malte Liban. Under Lobkowicz’s leadership the Order’s medical centres increased from one to thirteen.[7]

Lobkowicz died on Good Friday, 2 April 2010, in Paris. His funeral mass was celebrated in the Église Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin.

Honours

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstlicher Häuser Band XVIII, 189.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Biographie Edouard de Lobkowicz". Who’s Who in France. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  3. ↑ Eric Pace, "Body of Prince Found Near Paris", New York Times (8 May 1984), A12.
  4. ↑ "Robert de Lobkowicz, Prince, 26", New York Times (1 November 1988).
  5. ↑ H.J.A. Sire, The Order of Malta, A Modern Resurrection (London: Third Millenium, 2016), 249-250.
  6. ↑ Sire, 250.
  7. ↑ Jean-Pierre Chanial, "Le prince et la princesse Edouard de Lobkowicz: au nom de la Foi”, Point de Vue (3 mai 1990), 16. Sire, 250.
  8. ↑ "La promotion du 14 juillet 2005", Le Figaro (15 juillet 2005).

Further reading

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