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Sport
  
Fencing


Name
  
Joseph, de

Full name
  
Marie Joseph Anatole Elie de Riquet

Born
  
4 July 1858 (
1858-07-04
)
Paris, France

Died
  
25 July 1937(1937-07-25) (aged 79) Chimay, Hainaut, Belgium

Marie Joseph Anatole Élie de Riquet de Caraman, 19th Prince de Chimay (4 July 1858 – 25 July 1937), known as Joseph de Caraman-Chimay, the younger, was a Belgian aristocrat and fencer, a competitor in the individual épée event at the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was titled "Prince de Chimay" from 1858 until his death in 1937.

He was born to Joseph de Riquet, Prince de Chimay and Prince de Caraman (of Belgium), and Marie Joséphine Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac. Named for its Belgian "château de Chimay", his family was noted for its patronage of music and the arts. One of his sisters was Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Countess Greffulhe.

On 19 May 1890 he married Clara Ward, a sixteen-year-old American heiress. The couple had two children:

  • Marie Anatole Catherine Elisabeth, Comtesse de Caraman-Chimay (30 May 1891 – 13 February 1939), married Georges De Cocq in 1918
  • Joseph Marie Pierre Anatole Alphonse de Riquet (6 August 1894 – 18 January 1920)

    • They were divorced on 19 January 1897, after Clara's widely publicized elopement with a gypsy violinist. By a second marriage to Anne Marie Charlotte Amélie Gilone Le Veneur de Tillières (1889–1962) on 24 June 1920, he had two more children:

  • Joseph Marie Alexandre Pierre Ghislain, 20th Prince de Chimay, Prince de Caraman (6 April 1921 – 23 June 1990), who resigned the princely title to his brother upon becoming a US citizen; married Germaine Hélène Jeanne van der Meulen in 1946, but died without issue
  • Élie Marie Charles Pierre Paul, 21st Prince de Chimay, Prince de Caraman (22 October 1924 – 3 January 1980), married Marie Elisabeth Marthe Antoine Manset in 1947 and had issue

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