Adelheid von Rothschild (also Adélaïde de Rothschild, 19 August 1853 – 22 June 1935) was a member of the

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Biography

Adelheid was born on 19 August 1853 in

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. She was one of three daughters of Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild and Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild of the Naples branch of the Rothschild family. Her paternal grandparents were

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and Adelheid (

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Hertz) von Rothschild. Her maternal grandparents were Anselm von Rothschild and Charlotte Nathan Rothschild (the daughter of

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). In 1877, she married her cousin Baron Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (1845–1934), the youngest child of James Mayer Rothschild and Betty von Rothschild. Together, they were the parents of three children: * James Armand Edmond de Rothschild (1878–1957), who married Dorothy Mathilde Pinto (1895–1988) * Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (1881–1957), who married Noémie Halphen (1888–1968) * Miriam Caroline Alexandrine de Rothschild. From the 1880s, Adelheid became involved in her husband's life work in Palestine. In 1954, her remains were laid to rest alongside those of her husband at

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. Through her son Maurice, she was the grandmother of Baron Edmond Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques de Rothschild (1926–1997), who married Nadine Lhopitalier (b. 1932).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rothschild, Adelheid von 1853 births 1935 deaths German philanthropists French philanthropists French women philanthropists German Zionists French Zionists French people of German-Jewish descent Adelheid Edmond James de Rothschild 19th-century German Jews 19th-century French Jews 20th-century German Jews 20th-century French Jews