[PW] Re: Count Harmoncour or Harmoncours

[Dennis Cunniff]

> Accoridng to the Wikipedia entry for Nicolaus Harnoncourt, his  
> father was
> Eberhard de la Fontaine Graf [Count] d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt, so his
> grandfather would presumably have been Count d"Harnoncourt around  
> the time of the picture in question (1896).  I wasn't able to find  
> any more
> information about him, however.

The family is apparently covered in the Genealogisches Handbuch des  
Adels, Gräfliche Häuser B Volume II, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg an  
der Lahn, 1960. (under "de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt").  
(But I don't have this particular volume at hand).

The original questioner was asking if "Count Harmoncour" was a  
fictional character; I think it likely that the allusion is to a real  
Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt, and that someone  
with access to the above volume could probably provide a list of  
people who might be referred to as such before 1896.

The lineage of Nikolaus Harnoncourt (and the blazon of his family's  
arms) is given on François Velde's website, <http://www.heraldica.org/ 
topics/famous/music.htm>, as follows:

"Nikolaus Harnoncourt: de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt
         family from Lorraine, where the arms were: Or, two pilgrim  
staffs
per saltire azure under an escallop gules (Jougla de Morenas).   
Established
in Luxemburg (province of Belgium) where there is a village called
Harnoncourt.  Counts of the HRGE 1627 by Ferdinand II for Paul-Bernard.
Bohemian nobility 1827.  Add the name of Unverzagt 1839.  Lineage:
         Hubert-Ludwig (1789-1846) ~ Sophie Henriette von Haugwitz
         Hubert-Heinrich (1827-1897) ~ Ludmilla von Berchtold
         Hubert-Karl-Sigismund-Franz (1850-?) ~ Juliane von Mittrowitz
         Johann Eberhard (1896-?) ~ ?
         Nikolaus (1921-)
Name simplified probably in 1919, when titles became illegal in  
Austria."

Dennis J. Cunniff