Marie Eleonore of Dietrichstein
Countess Marie Eleonore of Dietrichstein, was a German noblewoman, by birth member of the House of Dietrichstein and by her two marriages Countess of Kaunitz and Oppersdorf.
Early life
Born in Vienna, she was the fourth child and third daughter of Maximilian, 2nd Prince of Dietrichstein zu Nikolsburg, and his first wife Princess Anna Maria Franziska of Liechtenstein, elder daughter of Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf.Biography
In Vienna on 26 November 1646 Marie Eleonore married firstly with Lev Vilém, a Bohemian Count since 12 June 1642 and son of Oldřich V of Kaunitz and his second wife Ludmilla Raupowsky of Raupow. They had one son:- Dominik Andreas I, Count of Kaunitz; married on 25 November 1675 to Countess Maria Eleonore of Sternberg. They had eight children; one of his descendants, Countess Maria Eleonora of Kaunitz-Rietberg, became in the first wife of a noted Austrian Councillor, Prince Klemens von Metternich.
Marie Eleonore died in Brno aged 64.