Walter Francis von Delanoringen

## Walter Francis Leopold von Delanoringen

### Residence(s)

Various, including:* Delanoringen Palais, Vienna, Austria-Hungary (Ancestral Residence)
* Delanoringen Lodge, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire

### Military career

Colonel of the Volunteer Delanoringen Regiment

## Family information

### Immediate

* Isabella von Delanoringen (wife)
* Joseph Anton von Delanoringen (eldest son)
* Stephen Alphonse von Delanoringen (son)
* Frank von Delanoringen (son)
* Nicholas Augustus von Delanoringen (older brother)
* Boris von Delanoringen (father) †
* Marcella van der Bijlandt (mother)

### Extended

* Marie Josephine von Delanoringen (sister-in-law)
* Roger William von Delanoringen (nephew)
* Hamilton Lee von Delanoringen (nephew)
* Justin Henry von Delanoringen (nephew)
* Ava Elisabeth von Delanoringen (niece)
* Karl von Delanoringen (uncle)
* Edward von Delanoringen (grandfather)
* Caroline von Delanoringen (grandmother) †
* Rosaline Clara von Delanoringen (paternal cousin)

## Affiliation

### Loyalty

* House of Delanoringen

**Walter Francis Leopold von Delanoringen** (b. 23 August 1874) is an Austrian businessman, banker, financer, investor, art collector, soldier, and a member of the prominent Delanoringen family, a noble, political, and banking dynasty with roots in the Tyrol region of Austria. He is the second son of Boris von Delanoringen and his wife Marcella van der Bijlandt and the younger brother of Nicholas Augustus von Delanoringen. He is also the spouse of Anabelle von Delanoringen an Austrian socialite. Born into an aristocratic lineage, Walter enjoyed a life of luxury and privilege, and he received an excellent education ranging multiple subjects. Known for his adventurous and bold personality even at an early age, he served as a colonel during the Boxer Rebellion, against the Boxers where he financed his own regiment for Austria-Hungary.

Born in the Delanoringen Palais on the outskirts of Vienna in Austria-Hungary in 1874 as the second son of Boris von Delanoringen, a wealthy member and heir of the Delanoringen family and his wife Marcella van der Bijlandt a wealthy Anglo-Dutch heiress, Walter was seemingly brought into a world of comfort and luxury. His birth was rejoiced as another birth of a son and cemented Boris's legacy and succession in the Delanoringen family. He had a close relationship with both of his parents who regarded him as their "favourite" and he received a comfortable lifestyle and an excellent education that compromised of literature, mathematics, history, geography, the sciences, the arts, languages, (particularly English, French, alongside his native German) and music. He was also taught manners, etiquette, and formality alongside a variety of sports including golf, tennis, polo, billiards, and chess. Also tutored in finance and banking, he served as a capable manager of one of the Delanoringen family banks in Vienna in the early 1890s. Later after serving as a colonel in the Boxer Rebellion, (where he financed his own regiment for Austria-Hungary, earning him the title of "Colonel Delanoringen") he went on a Safari throughout the continent of Africa visiting Rhodesia, Nyasaland, the Sudan, Egypt, and various other African colonies and countries where he engaged in Big-game hunting where he successfully hunted all Big five game animals. Upon his return to Austria-Hungary, in the early 1900s he continued his dynastic duties to his family, and continued serving as a businessman, and financer for his family.