Margareta Fouché
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Margareta Fouché, duchesse d'Otrante, (1909-2005) was the wife of Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and the mother of Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, who is the husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark. Her full title was Princess Margareta Fouché d'Otrante of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. Her husband, Gustav Albrecht, was the head of the Princely House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. He went missing in action in 1944, and declared legally dead in 1969.
From 1944 to 1955 she was the acting Head of the Princely family Dowager. After her husband Gustaf Albrecht was reported missing during World War II she became guardian for her son, Prince Richard. The family went into exile in her Sweden, where she was born. Prince Richard later married Her Royal Highness Princess Benedikte of Denmark. Born as Duchess Fouché d'Otrante, she lived until 2005.
[edit] Sources and references
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. In turn, it cites as references:
- The Fouché Memoirs (not genuine, but they were apparently compiled, at least in part, from notes written by Fouché)
- Gilbert Augustin-Thierry, Conspirateurs et gens de police; le complot de libelles (Paris, 1903) (English translation, London, 1903)
- Pierre Coquelle, Napoléon et l'Angleterre (Paris, 1903, English translation, London, 1904)
- Ernest Daudet, La Police et les Chouans sous le Consulat et l'Empire (Paris, 1895)
- Pierre M. Desmarest, Témoignages historiques, ou quinze ans de haute police (Paris, 1833, 2nd ed., 1900)
- E. Guillon, Les Complots militaires sous le Consulat et l'Empire (Paris, 1894)
- Louis Madelin, Fouché (2 vols., Paris, 1901)
- E. Picard, Bonaparte et Moreau (Paris, 1905)
- H. Welschinger, Le Duc d'Enghien (Paris, 1888)
- Heraldica.org (Napoleonic heraldry)
- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
