Katinka Kendeffy | |
Birth Name: | Katalin Kendeffy de Malomvíz |
Birth Date: | 1830 |
Birth Place: | Kolozsvár, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire, (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) |
Death Date: | 16 May 1896 |
Death Place: | Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
Spouse: | Gyula Andrássy |
Countess Katinka Kendeffy de Malomvíz Andrássy (1830 – 16 May 1896) was a Hungarian noblewoman and the wife of Count Gyula Andrássy, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary (1867–1871) and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary (1871–1879).
Kendeffy was born in Kolozsvár, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) to Count Ádám Kendeffy de Malomvíz (1795-1834) and his wife, Countess Borbála "Bora" Bethlen de Bethlen (1800–1880).[1]
After the coronation of King Franz Joseph I, she became Hungarian marshalless and an intimate friend of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sissi). She died in 1896, six years after her husband.
She married Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka in Paris, on 9 July 1856,[2] when Andrássy lived in emigration after defeat of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. They had four children: