Etti Plesch, (February 3, 1914 - April 29, 2003), Austrian countess, Hungarian countess, huntress, racehorse owner and socialite. Events 1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry uniting the fortunes of those two states Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic A count is a Nobleman in European countries The word count comes from French comte, itself from Latin Hunting is the practice of pursuing Animals for Food, Recreation, or Trade. This article is about the sport For other uses see Horserace (drinking game or Horse race (politics. A socialite is a person who is known to be a part of fashionable Society because of his or her regular participation in social activities and fondness for spending a significant Plesch lost two of her six husbands to the same woman, Louise de Vilmorin, a French literary figure, and owned two winners of the Epsom Derby, in 1961 and 1980. Louise Levêque de Vilmorin ( 4 April 1902 - 26 December 1969) was a French woman of letters novelist poet journalist The Derby Stakes, known colloquially as The Derby or internationally as the Epsom Derby, is considered one of the most prestigious flat Thoroughbred horse races
Born Maria Anna Paula Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppach in Vienna, Austria, of Greco-Austrian heritage, "Etti," as she was known, was putatively the elder daughter of Count Ferdinand von Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1879-1933) and his wife May Baltazzi (1885-1981), but more likely was the countess's biological child by Count Josef Gizycki. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. Wurmbrand-Stuppach is an old noble family of Austria, and the name of the County they ruled Her mother, who was a cousin of Baroness Mary Vetsera, a mistress of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, said that Count Gizycki's main interest in life was "the pleasuring of women in a physical way . Baroness Mary Vetsera ( German language: Marie "Mary" Alexandrine Freiin von Vetsera) ( 19 March 1871 – 30 January Background Crown Prince Rudolf was born on 21 August 1858 in Schloss Laxenburg near Vienna as the son of Emperor Franz Joseph I . . . He was amoral and cynical, but he was a marvellous lover. " (Gizycki was famed in the early 1900s because of his stormy marriage to American newspaper heiress Cissy Patterson. Eleanor Josephine Medill "Cissy" Patterson ( November 7, 1881 - July 24, 1948) was an American Journalist and Newspaper )
Etti von Wurmbrand-Stuppach was raised in Vienna and in Moravia, with travels to other sites throughout Europe. Moravia (Morava; Morawy Moravie Moravia is a historical region in central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, one of the former Czech lands. From the age of ten until she was twelve she was treated for tuberculosis at the Waltzaner Sanatorium in Davos which was the setting for Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain. Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or T u' b' erculosis Bacillus --> is a common Davos ( Romansh: Tavau, Italian: Tavate is a municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Paul Thomas Mann ( June
At the age of 17, she fell in love with Count Vladschi Mittrovsky, but was forbidden to marry him because he had a blood disease. She journeyed to New York and met American railway heir Clendennin Ryan III (1905-1957), grandson of Thomas Fortune Ryan, marrying him on 20 February 1935, after he proposed on their third date, in Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Events 1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a Dowry payment Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. St Patrick's Cathedral is a decorated Neo-Gothic -style Catholic Cathedral in North America Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was best man. LaGuardia redirects here For the airport see LaGuardia Airport.
The marriage lasted three months (they divorced in 1935 and the marriage was annulled in 1944), and she returned to Europe where she met Hungarian Count Paul Pálffy ab Erdöd (1890-1968) and became his fourth of eight eventual wives in late 1935. They lived in Slovakia. Slovakia (long form Slovak Republic; Slovak:, long form, is a Landlocked country in Central Europe with a population of over five million Their life was taken up with tiger hunts in India: they both became good shots, killing stags, elephants, and antelopes. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country They attended the World Exposition of Shooting at Berlin, hosted by Hermann Göring. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also spelled Goering) (12 January 1893 15 October 1946 was a German Politician, Military leader and a leading member Shortly afterwards, Pálffy became smitten with the siren-like writer Louise de Vilmorin (1902-1969) in Paris, divorced Etti in December 1937, and married Louise. Louise Levêque de Vilmorin ( 4 April 1902 - 26 December 1969) was a French woman of letters novelist poet journalist
On the rebound, Etti married a Hungarian count, Tamás Esterházy de Galántha (1901-1964), descendant of the junior committal branch of a great princely family, on 5 March 1938, and went to live in the castle of Devescer, in Hungary. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. They hunted, travelled, and had one daughter, Marie-Anna Berta Felicie Johanna Ghislaine Theodora Huberta Georgina Helene Genoveva (b. 12 December 1938), known as "Bunny". Events 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II 's Persian Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Her daughter married 1962 (and divorced 1972) the Hon. Dominic Elliot (b. 1931), younger son of the 5th Earl of Minto, and had issue 2 sons (the elder Alexander dying unmarried in 1985). Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Earl of Minto, in the County of Roxburgh is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
In 1942, she journeyed abroad alone and her husband also fell under the spell of heartbreaker Vilmorin. He eloped with Vilmorin and divorced Etti in 1944. (Vilmorin and Esterházy never married)
Etti's next two husbands were the Austrian Count Sigismund Berchtold (1900-1979), son of Count Leopold Berchtold, the Minister of Foreign Affairs who advised the Emperor to declare war on the Serbs, starting the First World War (they wed in 1944 and divorced in 1949). Leopold Anton Johann Sigismund Josef Korsinus Ferdinand Graf Berchtold (in English Count Leopold Anthony John Sigismund Joseph Corsinus Ferdinand von Berchtold, in Hungarian Serbia (Србија Srbija) officially the Republic of Serbia (Република Србија Republika Srbija) is a Landlocked Country World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The fifth was William Deering Davis of Chicago, who had been briefly married to the silent film star Louise Brooks, in the 1930s; Plesch's marriage to Davis lasted from 1949 until their divorce in 1951. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Louise Brooks ( November 14, 1906 &ndash August 8, 1985) was an American Dancer, model, Showgirl
In 1954, Etti married her last husband, Dr Árpád Plesch (1889-1974), a Hungarian lawyer, international financier, and collector of rare botanical books and pornographic esoterica. Botany, plant science(s, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of Biology and is the scientific study of plant Life Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of Sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer This last marriage made Etti a wealthy woman and allowed her to pursue her interests in racing, like her maternal grandfather who had also won the Derby.
The Plesches lived on the Avenue Foch in Paris, and at the Villa Leonina at Beaulieu-sur-Mer in the South of France, where he had a famous botanical garden. Avenue Foch is a street in Paris, France, named after Ferdinand Foch in 1929 Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Beaulieu-sur-Mer is a seaside resort commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera, located 6 miles (10 km apart east
After her husband's death in 1974, she took up partying and writing her memoirs, which were almost completed at the time of her death. They were edited by Hugo Vickers and published posthumously in 2007 as Horses and Husbands.
She died 28 April 2003 in Monte Carlo. Events 1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Monte-Carlo ( Occitan: Montcarles, Monégasque: Monte-Carlu) is one of Monaco 's various administrative areas sometimes erroneously
External links
- Etti's obituary was published in The Times 1 May 2003
- Etti's family genealogy is available here and here while that of her third husband GF Tamas is available here
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