Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-02-20


MME liner Kronprinzessin CeceIle
" III brought to this country the
relatives Of Count Laszlo
Szeelenyi for his marriage to Miss
Gladys Vanderbilt on Jan. u the no
BILE ship bore heavy freight in the
way OF titled aristocrats. The counts
father is dead. He was Count EmericIi
Szechenyi, WAS long ambassador OF
Austria Hungary at Berlin and was
held In high regard by Emperor Fran
els Joseph. But the groom has plenty
of relatives living, and the party of
them which came over for the wedding
on the Cecelie included his eldest
brother Count Denes Szechenyi new
ly appointed minister to Denmark. and
the Countess Szechenyi, Count Anton
Sigray. best man; Count Stefan SEE
chenyi, Count Paul Esterhazy, Count
stephan Przedzieky and other rela-
tiyes and friends. The Szechenyi house
Is quite an ancient one, and its mem
bers pride themselves very much on
the fact. Some of Count Laszlo's kin
have minated that he was very con-
descending in reaching down from the
heights Of his ancient lineage to take
up and unite with him In the bond of
wedlock an untitled American girl,
even though she be a Vanderbilt and
possessor in her own right Of a for
tune OF about $12.000O00. 1t has even
been said that his bride would be re-
ceived In court circles In Vienna only
as morganatic wife because of a lack
Of quarterings In the Vanderbilt coat
of arms, but this has been as EN-
phatically denied.
However, the claim has haan made
that when 1t comes to q showdown as
/ to ancestry the bride in this latest In
ternational match is really of bluer
blood than the groom. Her mother be-
fore she married the late Cornelius Van
derblt was Alice Claypoole Gwynne
Mrs. Vanderbilt's grandmother on her
fathers side was Alice Anne Clay.
poole daughter of Captain Abraham
George Claypoole of the Continental
army. He was great-grandson of
the James Claypoole who was close
friend of William Penn, treasurer of
the Free Society of Traders of Penn
sylvania and founder of the Clavpoole
family In this country. This Claypoole
was a son Of Sir John Claypoole. fol
lower of Cromwell by whom he was
knighted. Carrying the line further
back. various titled individuals are
reached, some of them famous in Eng
fish history, until in the thirteenth CEN
fury Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet,
daughter of King Edward l.. of Eng
land and Eleanor of CASTLE, is ermet.
At this point the genealogical expert.
Charles III. Browning, author of sAmer-
leans of Royal Descent" takes the an
cestral line away from England right
over into the country of the Szechenyis
and Swabian dukes and princes, comes
to Bella, the first king of the Huns.
from whom he says the rich and beau
tiful bride of Count Laszlo is twenty
sixth In descent. He also says that
she is descended from Otto the Great.
emperor of Germany, 936-973, who, ae-
cording to Gibbon, defeated the Huns.
including the Magyar tribe of the
Szechenyis. Otto kept the Huns hi
subsection and organized them into Il
petty tributary nation. so that three
generations later they enjoyed their
first real king, Bella, who began his
reign In 1061 A. d. There Is tradi-
tlon that it was Bella who civilized and
Christianized the wild ancestors Of