Paul Pálffy ab Erdöd

Count Franz Paul Rudolf Maria Josef Pálffy ab Erdöd (12 February 1890 – 11 October 1968) was a Hungarian aristocrat, landowner, and author best known for his eight marriages.

[1] His paternal grandparents were Count Moritz Pálffy ab Erdöd, a Knight of the Golden Fleece, and Countess Paulina von Wilczek.

[3] In 1926, his cousin, Count Joseph Palffy-Daun, Prince of Teano, attempted suicide following his divorce from his second wife, Countess Erdödy de Monyorókerék et Monoszló.

[5] In addition to owning several estates around Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Count Pálffy was a part owner of the Three Hussars, a fashionable Vienna nightclub.

[7] At the end of World War II, Pálffy abandoned all his possessions and went into exile in Western Europe fleeing the Soviet occupation.

[11][9] Before their divorce in 1928, they were the parents of:[12] On 25 August 1928, he married American author Eleanor Jenckes (née Roelker) Tweed (1890–1952)[14] in Turnov, Czechoslovakia.

[20] Etti, who was married and divorced from American heir Clendenin J. Ryan, was the elder daughter of Count Ferdinand von Wurmbrand-Stuppach and his wife, the former May Baltazzi.

She was a daughter of Friedrich, Count of Herberstein-Proskau (heir of Joseph Franz, Prince of Dietrichstein) and Baroness Elisabeth Korb von Weidenheim.