Comte Roland Paulze d'Ivoy de La Poype (1920-2012)

[Paul Theroff]

Roland de la Poype
Birth
28 Jul 1920
Les Pradeaux, Département du Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France
Death
23 Oct 2012 (aged 92)
Saint-Tropez, Département du Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Burial
Cimetière Chapelle Saint-Didier Cozance
Trept, Département de l'Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France

Roland Paulze d'Ivoy de la Poype was a World War II fighter ace, member of the Normandie-Niemen fighter group that fought on the Soviet front. He was also a plastic industry pioneer and founder of the Antibes Marineland in 1970.

Medals and awards:
Grand Croix of the French Légion d'Honneur, the order's highest rank
Compagnon de la Libération (29 December 1944)
Croix de Guerre 1939-45 with 12 citations
Czechoslovak War Cross 1939-1945

Soviet awards:
Hero of the Soviet Union
Order of the Red Banner
Order of Lenin
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194095598/roland-de_la_poype


This must be the one who was married to Hon. Enid Paget,  daughter of Lord Queenborough (of the Marquesses of Anglesey). Burke's Peerage says they had Charles Henri (b.3 Nov 1949, d. an infant) and Isabelle Victoria (b.28 March 1951).

There are two French death announcements, The first omits Isabelle, and the second mentions her and also the deceased Charles Henri. Probably the reason Charles-Henri and Isabelle are not mentioned in the first announcement is because they came from a previous marriage, and it was likely prepared by the children of the second.

Thanks to Anuschka at Nobiliana for these:

"Roland comte Paulze d'Ivoy de La Poype died on 23 October 2012. Funeral mass at the Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides in Paris VII on 30 October 2012. Mourned as father and father-in-law by Francois and Ann-Louise Paulze d'Ivoy de La Poype, Catherine Paulze d'Ivoy de La Poype, Alexandra and Charles-Henri Dubail; by the mother of his children Irène Paulze d'Ivoy de La Poype; as grandfather by Paule, Agathe, Joséphine, Blanche and Céleste. Le Figaro [no. 21224, p. 15, 27 October 2012, Deuils]"

"Roland comte Paulze d'Ivoy de La Poype died on 23 October 2012, aged 92.
Funeral mass at the Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides in Paris VII on 30 October 2012.
Mourned as father and father-in-law (step-father and step-father-in-law) by Charles-Henri Paulze d'Ivoy de La Poype (deceased), Isabelle and Patrick Choffel, by Francois and Ann-Louise Paulze d'Ivoy de La Poype, Catherine Paulze d'Ivoy de La Poype, Alexandra and Charles-Henri Dubail, Sandrine and Hugues Ciselet; as grandfather (step-grandfather) by Victoria, Enid, Paule, Agathe, Joséphine, Blanche, Céleste, Adrien, Charles and Auguste.
Le Figaro [no. 21223, p. 12, 26 October 2012, Deuils]"

[Paul Theroff]

I do not know when Enid Paget died. She was living in the 1973 Debrett's but gone by 2003.

[S R Eglesfield]

It is a little indistinct, but if you zoom in on the inscription on her gravestone at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GraveDeLaPoype-CimetiereDeNyon_RomanDeckert10062022.jpg, it looks like Enid Paget died on 25 December 1992.

[Paul Theroff]

thanks!

[Peter de Loriol Chandieu]

I know this family well as they descend from my family. Whilst it is correct to copy a notice of death correctly, the family, whilst very wealthy is known as a fake noble family in the Encyclopedie de la Fausse Noblesse de France.

The Paulze d'Yvoy family were a rich Bourgeois family in finance. A good marriage to the heiress of General comte de La Poype de Serrieres, one of Napoleon's generals and of a very ancient aristocratic lineage, meant that the family appended that illustrious name to theirs, and their title.

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[Paul Theroff]

very interesting.. thanks!