Margot von Beroldingen
Margot Marie Norris was an American heiress who married an Austrian aristocrat.
Early life
Margot Marie Stone was born in Paris, France on 14 October 1878. She was the youngest of three daughters of Joseph Foulke Stone and Mary Groesbeck Burnet. Her father was educated at the University of Geneva and became a stock broker and member of the New York Stock Exchange before his retirement in, shortly before Margot's birth. The family had a home on Fifth Avenue in New York City and summered in Newport, Rhode Island before his death in 1886. Her elder sister, Edith Stone, married Edward Winsloe, a major in the German Army during the Franco-Prussian War who served as chamberlain to Princess Viktoria of Schaumburg-Lippe.Her paternal grandparents were Henry Asaph Stone and Mary Stone. Through her paternal aunt, Emma Bridge Götz, she was first cousin of Henry Leon Götz. Her maternal grandparents were Margaret Burnet and Robert Wallace Burnet.
Society life
Margot, who spoke English, French, German and Italian fluently, was educated abroad and with her mother and sister, was "identified with the American colony in Paris." Her mother was a close friend of her first husband's mother. She was a painter of both water colors and oils and made a number of portrait paintings.Personal life
On 3 February 1904, she was married to Count Alexander Klemens Karl Mauritz von Beroldingen, an Austrian officer in the German Army, at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation on 35th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City. Born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, he was a son of Count Klemens Joseph Leopold von Beroldingen and his wife, Baroness Alexandrine von Hügel. His brother was, who served as chairman of VfB Stuttgart and Eintracht Frankfurt, and his mother Alexandrine was a first cousin of Count Paul von Hügel. Reportedly, at the time of their marriage, the Count "was on voluntary exile from Austria, having left that country because of some prank that had brought disgrace upon him. When he first came to New York he worked as a bartender later becoming a clerk in the United States Express Company." Before their divorce, they were the parents of:- Countess Margaret Marie Alexandrine von Beroldingen, who traveled abroad often. When she visited the U.S., she stayed with her unmarried aunt, Emma Stone, at the Stone Villa in Newport.
Her first husband, Count von Beroldingen, died in Munich in 1940 and her second husband, Samuel Norris, died in Ridgefield, Connecticut in September 1941. Norris died in 1968, after living at 66 Kay Street in Newport. Her estate was worth $784,508 in 1971.