Wilhelm von Perponcher-Sedlnitzky
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Count Wilhelm Heinrich Ludwig Arend von Perponcher-Sedlnitzky (17 July 1819 – 24 June 1893) was a Dutch-German diplomat.
Perponcher was born in Berlin on 17 July 1819.[1] He was the eldest son of Count Hendrik George de Perponcher Sedlnitsky (1771–1856), a Dutch general and diplomat, and Countess Wilhelmina Frederika Adelaide van Reede Ginkel.[2] Among his siblings were Friedrich von Perponcher-Sedlnitzky (Oberhofmarschall of Kaiser Wilhelm I),[3] who married Countess Wanda Friederike Ottilie Hedwig von Moltke,[4][5] and Ludwig von Perponcher-Sedlnitzky, who married Countess Adelheid von Bülow.[6]
His paternal grandparents were Baron Cornelis de Perponcher Sedlnitsky, (scion of an old Huguenot Dutch family and of old Czech noble family that had fled Bohemia after the 1621 Battle of White Mountain), a justice in the Hof van Holland (the high court of the province of Holland), and Jonkvrouwe Johanna Maria van Tuyll van Serooskerke. His maternal grandparents were Arend Willem van Reede van Amerongen and Wilhelmina Carolina Elisabeth Albertina Charlotte von Krusemarck. In 1853, he was recognized as belonging to the Prussian nobility with the title of Count.[6]
