The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-01-31
.C(NjNT SZECH[N|
Young Hungarian AriStOCrat Who
Won the Heart of a Wander.
\ biIt HeireSS Her Fortune
About SI2,COO.OOO.
~ YHEN the North German Lloyd

~ WHEN the North German Lloyd
&At liner KronprinZessin Cecelie
brought to this country the
~ relatives of Count Laszlo
Szechenyi for his marriage to Miss
Gladys Vanderbilt on Jan 81 the no
Bile ship bore heavy freight in the
way of titled aristocrats. The counts
Szechenyi. was long ambassador of
Austria Hungary at Berlin and was
aleld In high regard by Emperor Fran
jbcis Joseph. But the groom has plenty
|Nof relatives living. and the party of
Ithem which came over for the wedding
Non the Cecelie included his eldest
Nbrother. Count Denes Szechenyi. new
lily appointed minister to Denmark. and
|Nthe Countess Szechenyi Count Anton
ISigray best man: Count Stefan SEE
nchenyi. Count Paul EsterhaZy. Count
uStephan PrzedZieky and other rela-
II tives and friends. The Szechenyi house
h Is quite an ancient one. and its mem
bers pride themselves very much on
the fact Some of Count Laszlos kin
have intmated 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 gir.
even though she be a Vanderbilt and
possessor in her own right of a for
tune of about $12,OO0OO0. 1t has even
been said that his bride would be re-
ceiyed in court circles in Vienna only
<. as a morganatic wife because of lack
Of quarterings in the Vanderbilt coat
of arms. but this has been as en-
phaticaly denied
However, the claim has been made
that when it comes to 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
4 derhilt was Alice Claypoole Gwynne
Mrs Vanderbilts grandmother en- her
fathers side was Alice Anne Clay
poole. daughter of Captain Abraham
George Claypoole of the Continental
army. He was a great grandson of
the James Claypoole who was a close
friend of William Penn. treasurer of
& the Free Society of Traders of Penn
sylvania and founder of the Claypooe
family in this country. This Claypooe
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
lish history. until in the thirteenth CEN
fury Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet
daughter of King Edward |. of Eng
land and Eleanor of CASTLE. is met
At this point the genealogical expert.
Charles Ii. Browning. author of Amer
leans of Royal Descent" takes the an
cestral line away from England right
over into the country of the Szechenys
and. following it up through Bavarian
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
f emperor of Germany. 936-913. who. ac
cording to Gibbon. defeated the Huns.
including the Magyar tribe of the
Szechenyis. Otto kept the Huns in
subsection and organized them into. n
petty tributary nation. so that three
generations later they enjoyed their
first real king. Bella. who began his
reign in 1861 \. D. There is a tradi-
tion that it was Bella who civilized and
Christianized the wild ancestors Of