| Professor Ingrid Detter de Frankopan | |
|---|---|
| Born | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Other names | Ingrid Detter; Ingrid Detter Doimi de Lupis Frankopan Frangipane Šubić |
| Spouse | Prince Louis de Frankopan, Count de Lupis |
| Children | Paola Louise Marica, (Lady Nicholas Windsor)(1969–), Peter Jarl Anthony (1971–), Christina Ingrid Stephanie (Mrs Patrick Nicholson)(1973–), Nicholas Louis Anthony,(1975–) Lawrence Gregory Anthony Albert Windsor (1977–) |
| Parents | Nils Andreas Detter Thyra Carin Hellberg Detter |
Ingrid Detter de Lupis Frankopan (born Ingrid Detter) is a Swedish lawyer, an English barrister, and a professor of international law. She is the wife of Prince Louis Frankopan, Count Doimi de Lupis.
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Ingrid Detter was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was Nils Andreas Detter, a judge and lawyer and her mother Thyra Caroline Hellberg Detter, poet and author. She was educated at Lyceum, Stockholm and Mon Fertile, Switzerland, and later at the Universities of Oxford, Paris, Stockholm and Turin.
Detter de Frankopan holds several academic degrees, D.Phil.(Oxon),Jur. Kand; Jur. Lic; Jur.Dr.(Stockholm), Lic. en droit (Paris) and Dipl. Diritto Europeo (Turin).[1]
After having completed a law degree at Stockholm University, Ingrid Detter was accepted to read for a doctorate at Oxford University. She completed this and achieved another doctorate in Law from Stockholm University as well as a Licence de droit at the University of Paris (what is now Paris I), as well as a Diploma in European Law at Turin University. She taught at Oxford University and became a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and of St. Antony's College, led the course on the International Legal Order at the London School of Economics, and was then elected by the Swedish Government to the Lindhagen Chair of International Law at Stockholm University. For 25 years she was Adviser on International Law to Pope John Paul II. She is now distinguished Professor Emeritus of Stockholm University and a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in London.[2][3]
Ingrid Detter met her future husband, Louis Doimi de Lupis Frankopan, when they were both studying at Oxford University. (See below on the history of the family name). They married in 1968 and have five children, two daughters, Paola and Christina, and three sons, Peter, Nicholas and Lawrences, Princes Frankopan, Counts Doimi de Lupis:
1. Paola, M.A. (Cantab), DEA (Paris), married Lady Nicholas Windsor, read Classics at Cambridge University, where she was a Choral Scholar, and at Sorbonne Paris where she obtained a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondis (MPhil) in Philosophy with a thesis on 'L'autorité de l'Etat' .[4] She has, as Paola Frankopan, written for The Tatler where she is a contributing editor and for Vogue USA [5] She has published and introduction to the history of the Sanctuary of Trsat 'Trsatska Sveta Kuča', in Croatian.
2. Peter, D.Phil. (Oxon); M.Phil. (Oxon); M.A. (Cantab), is a historian and author of 'The First Crusade'.[6] He is Director of Oxford University's Centre for Byzantine Research and University Lecturer at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford University.;[7] Governor of Wellington College [8] and Trustee of the World Monuments Fund.[9] Together with his wife, he founded Cambridge University's Frankopan Directorship for Gender Studies.;[10]
3. Christina, M.A. (Cantab), read Social Science and Economics at Cambridge University and then became an investment banker.[11] She is married to Patrick Nicholson, Head of Communications for Caritas Internationalis in the Vatican.[12]
4. Nicholas, M.A. (Oxon); M.Phil. (Cantab); MBA (Columbia), read History first at Oxford and then at Cambridge University. He won two Gold Medals for Great Britain at the European Junior Rowing Championships in 1992. He later studied for an MBA at Columbia University and is now an investment banker in London.
5. Lawrence, B.A. (London) read Philosophy at King's College London and was then Visiting Scholar in History at New College, Oxford University. He is a sports agent and is now Head of Lagardère-Unlimited(UK).[13]
Detter de Frankopan speaks twelve languages fluently.[14]
Detter de Frankopan has published 14 books and numerous articles.
In 2006 The Times published an article suggesting that the family had added Frankopan to their surname under British Civil law but later published a retraction and a clarification. The Times corrected the article, stating:
"Since 2006 a judgment of the Italian courts has confirmed the genealogical entitlement and the right of all members of the Frankopan family to make use of the titles Princes Frankopan Frangipane Subić and Counts Doimi de Lupis, even if, for political reasons, they did not always use them. The Frankopan family did not change its name under UK law as stated above." [15]
Their eldest son, Peter, Senior Fellow of Worcester College at Oxford University and Director of the University's Centre for Byzantine Studies, says that the "title (of the family) is not any claim on anything. It is just a reflection of the age of the family".[15] He says that his family split from other branches of the Frankopan family in the 14th century. From Doimo III Frangipani or Frankopan, (+ 1348), Count of Veglia, married Elisabetta Subich, daughter of Jakab, Count of Bribir (+ post 1347); see [16][17] Ingrid Detter de Frankopan's husband Louis is a member of the Croatian and the Italian nobility.[18] Ingrid Detter de Frankopan's husband came to England from Croatia after the Second World War to attend a boarding school and then go to Oxford University. He is a Barrister, and a member of Middle Temple and is a banker and a businessman.
In 1991, Detter de Frankopan and her husband Louis were appointed official spokespersons for the Croatian Government. Immediately after the end of the Croatian War of Independence, Ingrid Frankopan's husband Louis founded the Croatian Nobility Association, a private non-governmental organisation, but after internal disagreements, he resigned from the Association.