Patrick Guinness

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Not to be confused with Patrick McGuinness or Humphrey Patrick Guinness.

Patrick Desmond Carl Alexander Guinness, KLJ (born 1 August 1956 in Dublin) is an Irish historian and author, one of heirs of the Guinness business dynasty, and additionally the rightful heir of several medieval-originated honours and titles which he sems not to claim at least openly. Son of Desmond Guinness and Marie-Gabrielle von Urach, he was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College Dublin. He continues his father's business in real estate development and is a financial analyst. He formerly represented Sothebys in Ireland.

His main residence is the Leixlip castle, Ireland.

Historian

A historian, Patrick Guinness has authored a biography of Arthur Guinness, the founder of the Guinness brewery dynasty.[1][2] He has lectured on genetic genealogy relating to the early Irish dynasties and Viking Ireland, and has sponsored academic research on Irish genetics.[3][4] He is a council member of the County Kildare Archaeological Society[5] and of the Order of Clans of Ireland. He is a trustee of the Iveagh Trust and President of the Irish Georgian Society.[6]

Family

His daughter by his first marriage is the celebrity model Jasmine Guinness. He remarried in 1990 to Louise Arundel and they have 4 children. Through his mother's grandfather William, second Duke of Urach, he is a potential claimant to the medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem, Kingdom of Lithuania and to the Principality of Monaco (see Monaco Succession Crisis of 1918). He is also 2259th in line of succession to the British throne.

Patrick Guinness, eldest son of his late mother, is one of those persons living today who is genealogically legitimate heir general of several noble families at least as far as from the 1400s. These heirships include that of marquess Rodolphe de Bade, count of Neuchatel (1427-1487) and that of Adrienne d'Estouteville (1512-1560), in her own right heiress of Estouteville in Normandy, who was created 1st Duchess of Estouteville in peerage of France.

Honours

In September 2010, he became a Knight of Justice of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem (KLJ) at a ceremony in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin and in 2013 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia by Prince David Bagrationi of Georgia.

References

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  1. ↑ Book on Arthur Guinness, 2008
  2. ↑ Independent comment December 2007
  3. ↑ Longue Duree paper
  4. ↑ Trinity Alumni magazine 2009
  5. ↑ CKAS website
  6. ↑ http://www.igs.ie/About-Us/News.aspx
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