Nikolaus III, 9th Prince Esterházy

M, #327874, b. 25 June 1817, d. 28 January 1894

Miklós Pál Prinz Esterházy von Galántha was born on 25 June 1817 at Regensburg, Germany. He was the son of Pál Antal Fürst Esterházy von Galántha and Maria Theresia Prinzessin von Thurn und Taxis. He married Lady Sarah Frederica Caroline Child-Villiers, daughter of George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of the Island of Jersey and Lady Sarah Sophia Fane, on 8 February 1842.

He died on 28 January 1894 at age 76 at Vienna, Germany.

Children of Miklós Pál Prinz Esterházy von Galántha and Lady Sarah Frederica Caroline Child-Villiers

-1. Pál Antal Miklós Prinz Esterházy von Galántha+1 b. 11 Mar 1843, d. 22 Aug 1898

-2. Alajos György Prinz Esterházy von Galántha (1) b. 9 Mar 1844, d. 25 Oct 1912

-3. Adolf Prinz Esterházy von Galántha (1) b. 5 Oct 1846, d. 1 Feb 1847

-4. Sára Zsofia Prinzessin Esterházy von Galántha+(1) b. 16 Mar 1848, d. 22 Feb 1885

-5. Maria Terézia Prinzessin Esterházy von Galántha (1) b. 29 Nov 1849, d. 7 May 1856

-6. Antal Miklós Fürst Esterházy von Galántha1 b. 14 Jan 1851, d. 10 Feb 1935

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http://www.thepeerage.com/p32788.htm#i327874

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus_III,_Prince_Esterh%C3%A1zy

Nikolaus III, Prince Esterházy (Hungarian: Esterházy III. Miklós, German: Nikolaus III Esterházy (Regensburg, June 25, 1817 - Vienna, January 28, 1894) was the ninth prince of the Hungarian House of Esterházy.

Life

Unlike his ancestors, Nikolaus did not spend his youth in the Schloss Esterháza in Hungary, but in England, where his father, Paul III Anton, Prince Esterházy, was Ambassador for the Austrian Emperor. Nikolaus married Lady Sarah Frederica Caroline Child Villiers (1822–1853), a daughter of George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, and his wife the former Lady Sarah Sophia Fane. Lady Jersey was a close friend of his mother Princess Maria Theresia of Thurn and Taxis, who served with her for many years as a patroness of Almack's, the centre of London's social scene. They had three sons, Paul IV, Prince Esterházy (born 1843), Aloys (1844), and Anton (1851). His wife died in 1853.

After his return from England, Nikolaus entered into the service of the new Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, and accompanied him on his travels through Hungary and Transylvania. Like most of his ancestors, in 1862 he received the Order of the Golden Fleece.

In 1866, he succeeded his father, but under very difficult circumstances. In 1865 the Esterházy estates had been placed in the hands of curators until 1898, because of the enormous debts caused by his father's and grandfather's extravagance. Nikolaus was forced to sell the family's collection of paintings to the Kingdom of Hungary, and it still constitutes the core of the collection of the present-day Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.

When he died in 1894 he was succeeded by his eldest son, Paul.