Nikolaus III, Prince Esterházy

Prince Nicholas III. Esterházy de Galantha ( born June 25, 1817 in Regensburg, † January 28, 1894 in Vienna) was the ninth Heir of the Hungarian nobility Esterházy family, the richest family in Central Europe.

Life

Spent his youth Prince Nikolaus not, as was customary for his kind in Hungary at Schloss Esterházy, but in England, where his father Paul III. Anton as k.k. Messenger was active. There he met his wife, Sarah Frederica Caroline Child Villiers, daughter of George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, and relatives of the famous George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. On 8 February 1842, the marriage took place in London. But Sarah died before his moving up to the Heir. Your commemorating let Nicholas III. in the Eisenstadt Castle Garden erect an obelisk later.

After returning from England, he presented himself, as it was in his family's tradition, the 1848 came to the throne, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria available and accompanied him on his travels through Hungary and Transylvania. For this he was in 1862, as some of his ancestors, the highest order of the Habsburg Monarchy awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece.

1866 was followed by Nicholas III. his late father, Paul III. Anton as Heir. This had, however, due to the huge debt of the family and the threat of insolvency must agree to a 1865 by Franz Joseph I. mediated sequestration ( sequestration ) of the respective Heir to 1898 (!), So over the life of Nicholas III. addition, kept away from asset management.

A lot of the Esterházy Gallery in 1874 sold to the Kingdom of Hungary, at least ablate a portion of that debt, which his predecessors had Nicholas I and Nicholas II accumulated. The former Esterházy painting today form an integral part of the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery and can be visited in their rooms.

His son Paul IV was his successor as Heir.

• Prince
• Esterházy
• Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece ( Austria ) (19th century)
• Hungarian
• Born in 1817
• Died in 1894
• Man