Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł
Polish Army officer
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Prince Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł (22 January 1911 – 19 November 1976) was a Polish aristocrat and officer of the Polish Army.[1]
Geneva, Switzerland
Prince Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł | |
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| Coat of arms | Trąby |
| Full name | Dominik Rainer Karol Hieronim Maria Mikołaj Alfons ks. Radziwiłł na Nieświeżu h. Trąby |
| Born | 22 January 1911 Balice, near Kraków, Poland |
| Died | 19 November 1976 (aged 65) Geneva, Switzerland |
| Family | Radziwiłł |
| Spouses |
Lida Lacey Bloodgood
(m. 1947) |
Issue | Princess Tatiana Radziwiłł Prince George Radziwiłł Princess Renata Radziwiłł Princess Louise Radziwiłł Princess Lyda Radziwiłł |
| Father | Prince Hieronim Mikołaj Radziwiłł |
| Mother | Archduchess Renata of Austria |
His father, Prince Hieronim Mikołaj Radziwiłł, was deported to a gulag during the Soviet occupation of Poland and died on 6 April 1945. His mother was Archduchess Renata of Austria (1888–1937).
Marriage and issue
He married Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark on 30 May 1938 in Paris, from whom he was divorced in 1946,[citation needed] and had two children:[2]
- Tatiana Maria Renata Eugenia Elisabeth Margarete Radziwiłł (28 August 1939 – 19 December 2025); married Dr. Jean Henri Fruchaud on 24 March 1966.[3] She was a bridesmaid at the 1962 wedding of the future King Juan Carlos I of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark and at the 1964 wedding of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark.
- Jerzy (George) Andrzej Dominik Hieronim Piotr Leon Radziwiłł (4 November 1942 – 27 August 2001).
His second wife was Lida Lacey Bloodgood (b. 1 February 1923, New York,[4][5] - d. 31 July 2008, Rome, Italy), daughter of John Van Schaick Bloodgood and Lida Fleitmann Bloodgood, married on 8 January 1947 in Rome.[6] They had three daughters:
- Lida Maria Renata Radziwiłł (11 July 1954, Cape Town – 5 May 2014); married Swiss banker André Wagnière, on 30 October 1976 (divorced).[7]
- Maria Ludwika (Louise) Jadwiga Radziwiłł (b. 23 January 1956); married Sicilian aristocrat Don Antonio Moncada, Nobile dei Principi of Paternò, on 4 October 1987.
- Lida (Lyda) Dominika Radziwiłł (b. 29 August 1959); married Roman aristocrat Prince Innocenzo Odescalchi in 1991.
