Franz von Jenison-Walworth

Count Franz von Jenison-Walworth (née Francis Jenison) (8 February 1764 – 28 April 1824) was a British-born Bavarian soldier, diplomat, and court official.

[11][12] In 1775, his father sold their Durham estate and moved the whole family to Heidelberg, where he shortly became Chamberlain to the Elector Palatine Prince Charles Theodore (who also became Elector of Bavaria in 1777) and was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1791.

[3] After arriving in Heidelberg, Franz became, successively, a Page of Honour, and Colonel of the Guards to the Elector Palatine, afterwards "Colonel in the service of Hesse-Darmstadt, from which Court at the commencement of the war in 1793, and when the Princes of Germany were subsidized by Great Britain, he was appointed Envoy to the Court of St. James, and was entrusted with the negotiations which ensued respecting the continuance of Hessian troops in the English pay, and concluded with the late Marquis of Hertford, then Earl of Yarmouth, by which the stipulated contingents to the first coalition of the Continental States against Revolutionary France, was regulated and detailed.

"[13] After Prince Frederick I (later King of Württemberg) married Charlotte, Princess Royal (the eldest daughter of King George III) in 1797, Franz was selected for the office of Grand Chamberlain of the Household at Stuttgart, a "station to which the superiority of his polished manners and refined address peculiarly qualified him.

[8] From their marriage, however, they had two boys, only one who survived to adulthood, and four girls, including: Count Franz died in Heidelberg on 28 April 1824.