Nobility Newsletter: "The Romanian countess whom communism sent into impoverished exile" and other posts

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• The Romanian countess whom communism sent into impoverished exile
• Dutch egalitarian anti-royalists protest their new king
• Caving to egalitarian pressure, the UK ends male primogeniture in royal succession
• 9-year-old Crown Prince Alfonso’s first battle against the Moors
• The Universal Scope of the Allocutions of Pius XII to the Roman Patriciate and Nobility
• April 29 – The Templars, Knights of Calatrava, of St. Lazarus, of Alcantara, of Avis, of St. Maurice, all trace their existence to this austere monk
• April 29 – In 11th century Christendom, no king or bishop dare oppose him
• April 30 – Crusader Pope

The Romanian countess whom communism sent into impoverished exile Posted: 29 Apr 2013 08:25 AM PDT The New York Times writes about an exiled Hungarian-Romanian countess who died in New York on April 15: “The death of Ilona DeVito di Porriasa last week, at 73, went largely unnoticed beyond her family and friends. But if nothing else, her story, as recounted by surviving relatives, peels back the hard shell of the city, [...]

Dutch egalitarian anti-royalists protest their new king Posted: 29 Apr 2013 07:37 AM PDT According to Expatica.com: “While the Netherlands parties in gaudy orange as the new king takes the throne on April 30, a small group of defiant republicans will protest the monarchy’s very existence by wearing white…. “The monarchy is something from another century that no longer fits with democratic values,” Anjo Clement, head of the Netherlands [...]

Caving to egalitarian pressure, the UK ends male primogeniture in royal succession Posted: 29 Apr 2013 07:24 AM PDT According to the BBC: “A bill which ends succession to the Crown based on gender has become law. “It means the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first child could become monarch, regardless of whether it is a boy or a girl. “Under the previous law, dating back to 1701, women were superseded by their brothers [...]

9-year-old Crown Prince Alfonso’s first battle against the Moors Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:12 PM PDT The King [Saint Ferdinand] was still not satisfied.Since he had not been able to go in person to the battle, which he considered his God-given mission in this world, he decided to send to it his dearest possession, his firstborn and heir the Infante, Alfonso, a boy of nine…. But the little Infante was so [...]

The Universal Scope of the Allocutions of Pius XII to the Roman Patriciate and Nobility Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:11 PM PDT [I]t may seem at first glance that the allocutions to the Roman Patriciate and Nobility are of interest to Italy alone. In reality, the crisis undermining the Italian nobility also affects, mutatis mutandis, all the countries with a monarchical and aristocratic past. It also affects those countries presently living under monarchical regimes whose respective nobilities find [...]

April 29 – The Templars, Knights of Calatrava, of St. Lazarus, of Alcantara, of Avis, of St. Maurice, all trace their existence to this austere monk Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:05 PM PDT St. Robert of Molesme Born about the year 1029, at Champagne, France, of noble parents who bore the names of Thierry and Ermengarde; died at Molesme, 17 April, 1111. When fifteen years of age, he commenced his novitiate in the Abbey of Montier-la-Celle, or St. Pierre-la-Celle, situated near Troyes, of which he became later prior. [...]

April 29 – In 11th century Christendom, no king or bishop dare oppose him Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:04 PM PDT Saint Hugh the Great Abbot of Cluny, born at Semur (Brionnais in the Diocese of Autun), 1024; died at Cluny, 28 April, 1109. His early life The eldest son of Count Dalmatius of Semur and Aremberge (Aremburgis) of Vergy, Hugh was descended from the noblest families in Burgundy. Dalmatius, devoted to war and the chase, [...]

April 30 – Crusader Pope Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:03 PM PDT Pope Saint Pius V Born at Bosco, near Alexandria, Lombardy, 17 Jan., 1504 elected 7 Jan., 1566; died 1 May, 1572. Being of a poor though noble family his lot would have been to follow a trade, but he was taken in by the Dominicans of Voghera, where he received a good education and was [...]

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