Baron Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen
BornLuitbert Alexander Georg Lionel Alfons Freiherr von Pawel-Rammingen
27 July 1843
Died20 November 1932
Noble familyPawel-Rammingen
Spouse(s)Princess Frederica of Hanover
FatherKarl Julius August Plato Emil, Baron von Pawel-Rammingen
MotherLuitgarde von Friesen

Baron Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen, KCB, KCVO, KCH, VD (German: Luitbert Alexander Georg Lionel Alfons Freiherr von Pawel-Rammingen; 27 July 1843 – 20 November 1932) was a German-born nobleman who became a naturalised British subject in 1880 when he married Princess Frederica of Hanover.

Life

Pawel-Rammingen was born on 27 July 1843,[1] the eldest son of Karl Julius August Plato Emil, Baron von Pawel-Rammingen (1807–1886) and his wife Luitgarde von Friesen (b. 1819); he had an elder sister, Anna (b. 1842) who married Oswald von Coburg in 1862, and a younger brother, Baron Paul Julius August Plato Sylvester Albert (b. 1851; known commonly as Albert).[2][3] He succeeded his father to become 2nd Baron in 1886.[3]

Naturalization of Luitbert Rammingen Act 1880
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to naturalize Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons Freiherr Von Pawel Rammingen, and to grant and confer on him all the rights, privileges, and capacities of a natural-horn Subject of Her Majesty the Queen.
Citation43 Vict. c. 1
Dates
Royal assent19 March 1880

On 24 April 1880, Pawel-Rammingen married Princess Frederica Sophia Maria, daughter of King George V of Hanover at St George's Chapel, Windsor;[4] he became a naturalised British Subject by Act of Parliament on 19 March 1880 (she was also a British princess). In the same year, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) and in 1897, Queen Victoria also appointed him a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO). He was also appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of Hanover (KCH).[1][3][5] In the United Kingdom, he was Honorary Colonel of the 6th Battalion of the Essex Regiment.[1] He became a widower in 1926, and died on 20 November 1932, at the age of 89.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Pawel-Rammingen, Baron Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons", Who Was Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, vol. 23 (1873), p. 486.
  3. 1 2 3 Marquis de Ruvigny, The Nobilies of Europe (London, 1909), p. 18.
  4. ↑ "Marriage". St George's Windsor. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  5. ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette, issue no. 10915, p. 849
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