Brief History of the Rothschild Family

OVERVIEW

The first member of the family who was known to use the name “Rothschild” was Izaak Elchanan Rothschild, born in 1577. The name is derived from the German zum rothen Schild (with the old spelling “th”), meaning “at the red shield”, in reference to the house where the family lived for many generations (in those days, houses were designated not by numbers, but by signs displaying different symbols or colours). A red shield can still be seen at the centre of the Rothschild coat of arms. The family’s ascent to international prominence began in 1744, with the birth of Mayer Amschel Rothschild in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was the son of Amschel Moses Rothschild (born circa 1710), a money changer who had traded with the Prince of Hesse. Born in the “Judengasse”, the ghetto of Frankfurt, Mayer developed a finance house and spread his empire by installing each of his five sons in the five main European financial centres to conduct business. The Rothschild coat of arms contains a clenched fist with five arrows symbolising the five dynasties established by the five sons of Mayer Rothschild, in a reference to Psalm 127: “Like arrows in the hands of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth.” The family motto appears below the shield: Concordia, Integritas, Industria (Unity, Integrity, Industry).

A Rothschild house, Waddesdon Manor in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England, donated to the National Trust by the family in 1957
House of the Rothschild family, Judengasse, Frankfurt
A house formerly belonging to the Viennese branch of the family (Schillersdorf Palace)
Schloss Hinterleiten, one of the many palaces built by the Austrian Rothschild dynasty. Donated to charity by the family in 1905
Beatrice de Rothschild’s villa on the Côte d’Azur, France
Palace of Baron Albert von Rothschild (photo 1884)
Château de Montvillargenne. A Rothschild family house in Picardy, France
Paul Johnson writes “[T]he Rothschilds are elusive. There is no book about them that is both revealing and accurate. Libraries of nonsense have been written about them… A woman who planned to write a book entitled Lies about the Rothschilds abandoned it, saying: ‘It was relatively easy to spot the lies, but it proved impossible to find out the truth.'” Johnson writes that, unlike the court factors of earlier centuries, who had financed and managed European noble houses, but often lost their wealth through violence or expropriation, the new kind of international bank created by the Rothschilds was impervious to local attacks. Their assets were held in financial instruments, circulating through the world as stocks, bonds and debts. Changes made by the Rothschilds allowed them to insulate their property from local violence: “Henceforth their real wealth was beyond the reach of the mob, almost beyond the reach of greedy monarchs.”

Johnson argued that their fortune was generated to the greatest extent by Nathan Mayer Rothschild in London; however, more recent research by Niall Ferguson indicates that greater and equal profits also were realised by the other Rothschild dynasties, including James Mayer de Rothschild in Paris, Carl Mayer von Rothschild in Naples and Amschel Mayer Rothschild in Frankfurt.
Another essential part of Mayer Rothschild’s strategy for success was to keep control of their banks in family hands, allowing them to maintain full secrecy about the size of their fortunes. In about 1906, the Jewish Encyclopedia noted: “The practice initiated by the Rothschilds of having several brothers of a firm establish branches in the different financial centres was followed by other Jewish financiers, like the Bischoffsheims, Pereires, Seligmans, Lazards and others, and these financiers by their integrity and financial skill obtained credit not alone with their Jewish confrères, but with the banking fraternity in general. By this means, Jewish financiers obtained an increasing share of international finance during the middle and last quarter of the 19th century. The head of the whole group was the Rothschild family…” It also says: “Of more recent years, non-Jewish financiers have learned the same cosmopolitan method, and, on the whole, the control is now rather less than more in Jewish hands than formerly.” Mayer Rothschild successfully kept the fortune in the family with carefully arranged marriages, often between first- or second-cousins (similar to royal intermarriage). By the late 19th century, however, almost all Rothschilds had started to marry outside the family, usually into the aristocracy or other financial dynasties. His sons were:

Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773–1855):

Frankfurt, died childless as his fortune passed to the sons of Salomon and Kalman

Salomon Mayer Rothschild (1774–1855): Vienna
Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836): London
Kalman Mayer Rothschild (1788–1855): Naples
Jakob Mayer Rothschild (1792–1868): Paris

The German family name “Rothschild” is pronounced [ˈʁoːt.ʃɪlt] in German, unlike /ˈrɒθ(s)tʃaɪld/ in English. The surname “Rothschild” is rare in Germany.

Families by country:

Rothschild banking family of Austria.
Rothschild banking family of England.
Rothschild banking family of Naples.
Rothschild banking family of France.

The five sons of Mayer Amschel Rothschild were elevated to the Austrian nobility by Emperor Francis I of Austria, and they were all granted the Austrian hereditary title of Freiherr (baron) on 29 September 1822. The British branch of the family was elevated by Queen Victoria, who granted the hereditary title of baronet (1847) and later the hereditary peerage title of Baron Rothschild (1885).

THE NAPOLEONIC WARS:

The Rothschilds already possessed a significant fortune before the start of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), and the family had gained preeminence in the bullion trade by this time.

From London in 1813 to 1815, Nathan Mayer Rothschild was instrumental in almost single-handedly financing the British war effort, organising the shipment of bullion to the Duke of Wellington’s armies across Europe, as well as arranging the payment of British financial subsidies to their continental allies. In 1815 alone, the Rothschilds provided £9.8 million (equivalent to about £710 million in 2019) in subsidy loans to Britain’s continental allies.

One of the smaller city houses, Vienna. A collection of far larger Viennese palaces known as Palais Rothschild were torn down during the Second World War.

The brothers helped coordinate Rothschild activities across the continent, and the family developed a network of agents, shippers and couriers to transport gold across war-torn Europe.

The family network was also to provide Nathan Rothschild time and again with political and financial information ahead of his peers, giving him an advantage in the markets and rendering the house of Rothschild still more invaluable to the British government.

In one instance, the family network enabled Nathan to receive in London the news of Wellington’s victory at the Battle of Waterloo a full day ahead of the government’s official messengers.

Rothschild’s first concern on this occasion was not to the potential financial advantage on the market which the knowledge would have given him; he and his courier immediately took the news to the government.

That he used the news for financial advantage was a fiction then repeated in later popular accounts, such as that of Morton. The basis for the Rothschilds’ most famously profitable move was made after the news of British victory had been made public.

Nathan Rothschild calculated that the future reduction in government borrowing brought about by the peace would create a bounce in British government bonds after a two-year stabilisation, which would finalise the post-war restructuring of the domestic economy. In what has been described as one of the most audacious moves in financial history, Nathan immediately bought up the government bond market, for what at the time seemed an excessively high price, before waiting two years, then selling the bonds on the crest of a short bounce in the market in 1817 for a 40% profit.

Given the sheer power of leverage the Rothschild family had at their disposal, this profit was an enormous sum.
Nathan Mayer Rothschild started his business in Manchester in 1806 and gradually moved it to London, where in 1809 he acquired the location at 2 New Court in St. Swithin’s Lane, City of London, where it operates today; he established N M Rothschild & Sons in 1811. In 1818, he arranged a £5 million (equal to £360 million in 2019) loan to the Prussian government, and the issuing of bonds for government loans formed a mainstay of his bank’s business.

He gained a position of such power in the City of London that by 1825–26 he was able to supply enough coin to the Bank of England to enable it to avert a market liquidity crisis.

INTERNATIONAL HIGH FINANCE:

Rothschild family banking businesses pioneered international high finance during the industrialisation of Europe and were instrumental in supporting railway systems across the world and in complex government financing for projects such as the Suez Canal. From 1895 through 1907 they loaned nearly $450,000,000 (equivalent to $13,100,000,000 in 202) to European governments. During the 19th century, the family bought up a large proportion of the property in Mayfair, London.

The Rothschild family was directly involved in the independence of Brazil from Portugal in the early 19th century. Upon an agreement, the Brazilian government should pay a compensation of two million pounds sterling to the Kingdom of Portugal to accept Brazil’s independence. N M Rothschild & Sons was pre-eminent in raising this capital for the government of the newly formed Empire of Brazil on the London market. In 1825, Nathan Rothschild raised £2,000,000, and indeed was probably discreetly involved in the earlier tranche of this loan which raised £1,000,000 in 1824. Part of the price of Portuguese recognition of Brazilian independence, secured in 1825, was that Brazil should take over repayment of the principal and interest on a £1,500,000 loan made to the Portuguese government in 1823 by N M Rothschild & Sons. A correspondence from Samuel Phillips & Co. in 1824 suggests the close involvement of the Rothschilds in the occasion.

Major 19th-century businesses founded with Rothschild family capital include:
Alliance Assurance (1824) (now Royal & Sun Alliance)
Chemin de Fer du Nord (1845)
The Rio Tinto mining company (1873) (from the 1880s onwards, the Rothschilds had full control of Rio Tinto)
Eramet (1880)
Imerys (1880)
De Beers (1888)
The family funded Cecil Rhodes in the creation of the African colony of Rhodesia. From the late 1880s onwards, the family took over control of the Rio Tinto mining company.

The Japanese government approached the London and Paris families for funding during the Russo-Japanese War. The London consortium’s issue of Japanese war bonds would total £11.5 million (at 1907 currency rates; £1.08 billion in 2012 currency terms).

The name of Rothschild became synonymous with extravagance and great wealth; and the family was renowned for its art collecting, for its palaces, as well as for its philanthropy.

By the end of the century, the family owned, or had built, at the lowest estimates, over 41 palaces, of a scale and luxury perhaps unparalleled even by the richest royal families.

The British Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George claimed, in 1909, that Nathan, Lord Rothschild was the most powerful man in Britain.

Niles’ Weekly Register, Volume 49 had the following to say about the Rothschilds influence on international high finance in 1836:
The Rothschilds are the wonders of modern banking … we see the descendants of Judah, after a persecution of two thousand years, peering above kings, rising higher than emperors, and holding a whole continent in the hollow of their hands. The Rothschilds govern a Christian world.

Not a cabinet moves without their advice. They stretch their hand, with equal ease, from [Saint] Petersburgh to Vienna, from Vienna to Paris, from Paris to London, from London to Washington. Baron Rothschild, the head of the house, is the true king of Judah, the prince of the captivity, the Messiah so long looked for by this extraordinary people.

He holds the keys of peace or war, blessing or cursing. … They are the brokers and counselors of the kings of Europe and of the republican chiefs of America. What more can they desire?

CHANGES TO FAMILY FORTUNES:

The Neapolitan Rothschilds was the first branch of the family to decline when revolution broke out and Giuseppe Garibaldi captured Naples on 7 September 1860 and set up a provisional Italian government. Because of the family’s close political connections with Austria and France, Adolphe Carl von Rothschild [fr] was caught in a delicate position.

He chose to take temporary sanctuary in Gaeta with the last Neapolitan king, Francis II of the Two Sicilies. However, the Rothschild branches in London, Paris, and Vienna were not prepared nor willing to financially support the deposed king.

With the ensuing unification of Italy, and the mounting tension between Adolph and the rest of the family, the Naples house closed in 1863 after forty-two years in business.

In 1901, the German branch closed its doors after more than a century in business following the death of Wilhelm Rothschild with no male heirs. It was not until 1989 that the family returned to Germany, when N M Rothschild & Sons, the British branch, plus Bank Rothschild AG, the Swiss branch, set up a representative banking office in Frankfurt.
By the start of the 20th century, the introduction of national taxation systems had ended the Rothschilds’ policy of operating with a single set of commercial account records, which resulted in the various branches gradually going their own separate ways as independent banks.

The system of the five brothers and their successor sons all but disappeared by World War

I.The rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s led to a precarious situation for the Austrian Rothschilds under the annexation of Austria in 1937 when the family was pressured to sell its banking operation at a fraction of its real worth.

While other Rothschilds had escaped the Nazis, Louis Rothschild was imprisoned for a year and only released after a substantial ransom was paid by his family.

After Louis was allowed to leave the country in March 1939, the Nazis placed the firm of S M von Rothschild under compulsory administration. Nazi officers and senior staff from Austrian museums also emptied the Rothschild family estates of all their valuables.

Following the war, the Austrian Rothschilds were unable to reclaim much of their former assets and properties.

Later, the fall of France during the Second World War led to the seizure of the property of the French Rothschilds under German occupation.

Despite having their bank restored to them at the end of the war, the French Rothschilds were powerless in 1982 as the family business was nationalised by the socialist government of newly elected President François Mitterrand.

In addition, The New York Times wrote that the Rothschilds “grossly misjudged the opportunities directly across the Atlantic” and quoted Evelyn Robert de Rothschild as saying that despite the accomplishments made by the various branches of the family in international high finance for over 200 years, “we never seized the initiative in America and that was one of the mistakes my family made.”

INVESTMENTS:

In 1991, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild founded J. Rothschild Assurance Group (now St. James’s Place Wealth Management) with Sir Mark Weinberg. It is also listed on London Stock Exchange.
In 2001, the Rothschild mansion located at 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, was on sale for £85 million, at that time (2001) the most expensive residential property ever to go on sale in the world. It was built in marble, at 9,000 sq ft, with underground parking for 20 cars.
In December 2009, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild invested $200 million of his own money in a North Sea oil company.
In January 2010, Nathaniel Philip Rothschild bought a substantial share of the Glencore mining and oil company’s market capitalisation. He also bought a large share of the aluminium mining company United Company RUSAL.
During the 19th century, the Rothschilds controlled the Rio Tinto mining corporation, and to this day, Rothschild and Rio Tinto maintain a close business relationship.

ART AND CHARITY:

The family once had one of the largest private art collections in the world, and a significant proportion of the art in the world’s public museums are Rothschild donations which were sometimes, in the family tradition of discretion, donated anonymously.
Hannah Mary Rothschild was appointed in December 2014 as chair of the Board of the National Gallery of London.

CULTURAL REFERENCES:

The Neo-Gothic Castle de Haar
In the words of The Daily Telegraph: “This multinational banking family is a byword for wealth, power – and discretion… The Rothschild name has become synonymous with money and power to a degree that perhaps no other family has ever matched.”
The Neo-Gothic Rothschildschloss, Waidhofen
Writing of the Rockefeller and Rothschild families, Harry Mount writes: “That is what makes these two dynasties so exceptional – not just their dizzying wealth, but the fact that they have held on to it for so long: and not just the loot, but also their family companies.”
The story of the Rothschild family has been featured in a number of films. The 1934 Hollywood film titled The House of Rothschild, starring George Arliss and Loretta Young, recounted the life of Mayer Amschel Rothschild and Nathan Mayer Rothschild (both played by Arliss). Excerpts from this film were incorporated into the Nazi propaganda film Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) without the permission of the copyright holder. Another Nazi film, Die Rothschilds (also called Aktien auf Waterloo), was directed by Erich Waschneck in 1940. A Broadway musical entitled The Rothschilds, covering the history of the family up to 1818, was nominated for a Tony Award in 1971. Nathaniel Mayer (“Natty”) Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild appears as a minor character in the historical-mystery novel Stone’s Fall, by Iain Pears. Mayer Rothschild is featured in Diana Gabaldon’s novel Voyager as a coin seller summoned to Le Havre by Jamie Fraser to appraise coins, prior to the establishment of the Rothschild dynasty, when Mayer is in his early 20s. The Rothschild name is mentioned by Aldous Huxley in his novel Brave New World, among many names of historically affluent persons, scientific innovators and others. The character, named Morgana Rothschild, played a relatively minor role in the story. The name Rothschild used as a synonym for extreme wealth inspired the song “If I Were a Rich Man”, which is based on a song from the Tevye the Dairyman stories, written in the Yiddish as Ven ikh bin Rotshild, meaning “If I were a Rothschild”.
In France, the word “Rothschild” was throughout the 19th and 20th centuries a synonym for seemingly endless wealth, neo-Gothic styles, and epicurean glamour.[96] The family also has lent its name to “le goût Rothschild,” a suffocatingly glamorous style of interior decoration whose elements include neo-Renaissance palaces, extravagant use of velvet and gilding, vast collections of armour and sculpture, a sense of Victorian horror vacui, and the highest masterworks of art. Le goût Rothschild has much influenced designers such as Robert Denning, Yves Saint Laurent, Vincent Fourcade and others.
“Yes, my dear fellow, it all amounts to this: in order to do something first you must be something. We think Dante great, and he had a civilization of centuries behind him; the House of Rothschild is rich and it has required much more than one generation to attain such wealth. Such things all lie much deeper than one thinks.”
— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, October 1828.

PROMINENT DESCENDANTS OF MAYER AMSCHEL ROTHSCHILD:

– Major Alexander Karet (1905–1976).
– Adeleheid von Rothschild (1853–1935) x 1877 : Edmond de Rothschild (1845–1934) (see the Paris branch)
– Almina Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon (15 August 1876 – 8 May 1969)
– Prince Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier (1883–1918), died fighting in the First World War
– Albert Salomon von Rothschild (1844–1911), former majority shareholder of Creditanstalt.
– Alfred Charles de Rothschild (20 July 1842 – 31 January 1918)
– Alice Charlotte von Rothschild (1847–1922) close friend of Queen Victoria.
– Aline Caroline de Rothschild (1867–1909), French socialite.
– Alice Rothschild (born 1983), wife of Zac Goldsmith, after his divorce of Sheherazade Ventura-Bentley.
– Lady Aline Caroline Cholmondeley (born 1916)
– Baroness Afdera Franchetti (born c. 1931), a former wife of Henry Fonda, from the noble Italian Jewish Franchetti family
– Baroness Alix Hermine Jeannette Schey de Koromla (1911–1982)
– Alphonse James de Rothschild (1827–1905).
– Amschel Mayor James Rothschild (1955–1996, Paris), patron of motor racing.
– Princess Andréa de La Tour d’Auvergne-Lauraguais (born Paris 1972)
– Anthony Gustav de Rothschild (1887–1961), horse-breeder
– Anthony James de Rothschild (born 1977)
– Anselm von Rothschild (1803–1874), Austrian banker
– Anselm Alexander Carl de Rothschild (1835–1854).
– Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Baronet (1810–1876).
– Antoine Armand Odélric Marie Henri de Gramont, 13th Duke of Gramont (born 1951).
– Alain de Rothschild (1910–1982)
– Lady Barbara Marie-Louise Constance Berry (born 1935)
– Arthur de Rothschild (1851–1903).
– Benjamin de Rothschild (1963–2021).
– Princess Béatrice de Broglie (1913-1994)
– Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild (1864–1934)
– Bethsabée de Rothschild (1914–1999)
– Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788–1855)
– Cécile Léonie Eugénie Gudule Lucie de Rothschild (1913–1995)
Charlotte de Rothschild (1825-1899)
– Charlotte Henriette de Rothschild (born 1955), British opera singer
– Charlotte von Rothschild (1818–84).
– Count Charles-Emmanuel Lannes de Montebello (born 1942).
– Charles Rothschild (1877–1923), banker and entomologist.
– Constance Flower, 1st Baroness of Battersea (1843–1931).
– David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley (born 1960).
– Lord Great Chamberlain of England
– David Mayer de Rothschild (born 1978), billionaire, British adventurer and environmentalist.
– David René de Rothschild (born 1942).
– Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild (1926–1997).
– Edouard Etienne de Rothschild (born 1957).
– Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1868–1949) financier and polo player.
– Prince Edouard de La Tour d’Auvergne-Lauraguais (born 1949).
– Edmond James de Rothschild (1845–1934).
– Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916–2009).
– Elie de Rothschild (1917–2007).
– Princess Elisabeth de Broglie (born 1920).
– Emma Rothschild (born 1948).
– Esther de Rothschild (born 1979).
– Evelina de Rothschild (1839–66).
– Evelyn Achille de Rothschild (1886–1917), died fighting for the British Army in the First World War.
– Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (1931–2022), banker.
– Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, M.P. (1839–1898).
– Count Gabriel Antoine Armand (1908–1943), a soldier of the French Resistance.
– Gustave Samuel de Rothschild (1829–1911).
– Guy de Rothschild (1909–2007).
– Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery née Hannah Rothschild (1851–1890).
– Hannah Mary Rothschild (born 1962), documentary filmmaker.
– Helene Cecile Muhlstein de Rothschild (1936–2007) x 1962 : – – –François Nourissier (1927–2011), président de l’Académie Goncourt
– Henri James de Rothschild (1872–1946), playwright, grandson of Nathaniel de Rothschild.
– Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon (1898–1987).
– Duke Hélie Marie Auguste Jacques Bertrand Philippe (1943), 10th Duke of Noailles
– Henriette Rothschild (1791–1866) married Sir Moses Montefiore (1784–1885).
– Count Henri de Gramont (1909–1994).
– Hugh Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley (1919–90), – Lord Great Chamberlain of England
– Jacqueline de Rothschild (1911–2012) x (1) 1930; Robert – — Calmann-Lévy (1899–1982) puis x (2) 1937; Gregor Piatigorsky (1903–1976).
– James Amschel Victor Rothschild (born 1985).
– James Armand de Rothschild (1878–1957).
– James Mayer Rothschild (1792–1868).
– Joachim Von Rothschild (1929–1998).
– Marie Angliviel de la Beaumelle (1963–2013).
– Neil Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery (born 1929).
– Neil James Archibald Primrose (1882–1917), MP, killed fighting in the First World War.
– Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter (née Baroness Pannonica Rothschild) (1913–1988), patron of bebop and jazz writer – often called the “Jazz Baroness”.
– Baron Léon Lambert (1929–1987), Belgian art collector.
– Leopold de Rothschild (1845–1917).
– Leopold David de Rothschild (1927–2012).
– Leonora de Rothschild (1837–1911).
– Lionel Nathan Rothschild (1808–1879).
– Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild (1882–1955).
– Lady Louise Rothschild (1821–1910), philanthropist and daughter of Henrietta Rothschild.
– Countess Magdalene-Sophie von Attems (born 1927).
– Marie-Hélène de Rothschild (1927–94), French socialite.
– Maurice de Rothschild (1881–1957).
– Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818–1874).
– Miriam Louisa Rothschild (1908–2005), famous entomologist and zoologist.
– Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, of Tring in the County of Hertford (1868–1937).
– Nathaniel de Rothschild (1812–1870).
– Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836).
– Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, of Tring in the County of Hertford (1840–1915).
– Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, of Tring in the County of Hertford (born 1936).
Nathaniel Robert de Rothschild (1946), French financier.
– Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, of Tring in the County of Hertford (1910–1990).
– Nathaniel Philip Rothschild (born 1971), a co-chairman of Atticus Capital, a £20 billion hedge fund.
– Nathaniel Anselm von Rothschild (1836–1905), Austrian socialite.
– Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet (1888–1939), British First Commissioner of Works and Under-Secretary of State for Air.
– Count Philippe de Nicolay (born 1955), great-grandson of Salomon James de Rothschild, he is a director of the Rothschild group.
– Robert de Rothschild (1880–1946) x 1907 : Gabrielle Beer (1886–1945).
– Philippe de Rothschild (1902–1988), vintner, son of Henri James de Rothschild.
– Philippine de Rothschild (1935–2014), vintner, daughter of Philippe.
– Jacqueline Rebecca Louise de Rothschild (1911–2012), chess and tennis champion.
– Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery (1882–1974) Earl of Roseberry.
– Raphael de Rothschild (1976–2000).
– Salomon James de Rothschild (1835–1864).
– Lady Serena Dunn Rothschild (1935-2019).
– Countess Sophie von Löwenstein-Scharffeneck (1896–1978)
Lady Sybil Grant (1879–1955), British writer.
– Sybil Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley (1894–1989)
Valentine Noémi von Springer (1886–1969).
– Victoria Katherine Rothschild (born 1953).
– Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868–1937), zoologist
Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (1828–1901).

PROMINENT MARRIAGES INTO THE FAMILY INCLUDE

among many others:
This is a dynamic list to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
– Maurice Ephrussi (1849–1916), of the Ephrussi family.
– Ben Goldsmith (born 1980), son of financier James Goldsmith, of the Goldsmith family married Kate Emma Rothschild (born 1982).
– Anita Patience Guinness (1957), of the Guinness family, married Amschel Mayor James Rothschild.
– Abraham Oppenheim (1804–1878), of the Oppenheim Family, married Charlotte Beyfus (1811–1887).
– Cora Guggenheim (1873–1956), of the Guggenheim family, married Louis F. Rothschild (1869–1957).
– Aline Caroline de Rothschild (1867–1909) married Edward Sassoon (1856–1912), of the Sassoon family
Carola Warburg Rothschild (1894–1987), philanthropist, born into the Warburg family.
– Sara Louise de Rothschild (born 1834), married the Baron Raimondo Franchetti (born 1829).
– Baron Eugéne Daniel de Rothschild (1884–1976) married Countess Cathleen Wolff de Schönborn-Bucheim (1885 – c. 1946).
In 1923, James Nathaniel Charles Léopold Rothschild, son of Henri James Nathaniel Charles Rothschild and Mathilde Sophie Henriette de Weisweiller, married Claude du Pont of the Du Pont family.
Bertha Clara de Rothschild (1862) married Prince Alexandre de Wagram.
– Bertha Juliet de Rothschild (1870) married Baron Emmanuel Leonino
– Lili Jeanette von Goldschimdt-Rothschild (1883–1929), married Baron Philippe Schey de Koromla.
– Elisabeth Pelletier de Chambure (1902–1945), the only member of the Rothschild family to die in the Holocaust.
– Antoine Agénor Armand (1879–1962), of the Naples Rothschild lines, married Countess Élaine Greffulhe, daughter of Princess Élisabeth de Caraman-Chimay.
– Hannah Mayer Rothschild (1815–1864) married Hon. Henry Fitzroy (1807–1859), of the family of the Dukes of Grafton
Edouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1868–1949) married in 1905 the Baroness Alice Germaine de Helphen (1884–1979).
– Count François de Nicolay (1919–1963), of the House of Nicolay, married Marie-Hélène Naila Stephanie Josina van Zuylen van Nyevelt.
– Marguerite de Rothschild in 1878 married Antoine Alfred Agénor, 11th Duc de Gramont (1851–1921).
– Dorothy de Rothschild (1895–1988), on her death she left the largest probated estate in Britain.
– George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon married Almina Victoria Maria Alexandra Wombwell, the illegitimate daughter of Alfred de Rothschild.
– Pauline de Rothschild (1908–1976), fashion designer and translator of Elizabethan poetry.
– Lady Irma Pauahi Wodehouse (1897)[citation needed], of the Wodehouse family.
– Louis Philippe Marie Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram (1836–1911).
– Countess Katharina Eleonore Veronika Irma Luise Henckel von Donnersmarck (1902–1965), actress, married Baron Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild.
– Amartya Sen (born 1933), Nobel Laureate, Indian economist and philosopher, married Emma Georgina Rothschild of the Rothschild banking family of England.
– Jeanne de Rothschild (1908–2003), actress.
– Nadine de Rothschild (1932–), French actress and author.
– Princess Sophie de Ligne (born 1957), of the House of Ligne, married Philippe de Nicolay (born 1955), a director of the Rothschild group,[73] and the great-grandson of Salomon James de Rothschild.
– Liliane de Rothschild (1916–2003, née Fould-Springer), art collector.
– David René de Rothschild married Princess Olimpia Anna Aldobrandini, of the House of Borghese and the House of Bonaparte.
– Baron Robert Philippe de Rothschild married Nelly Beer, a great-grand-niece of Giacomo Meyerbeer.
– Richard Francis Roger Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston of Churston Ferrers and Lupton (1910–1991), married Olga Alice Muriel Rothschild.
– Serena Dunn Rothschild (1935-2019), granddaughter of Sir James Hamet Dunn, 1st Baronet.
– Lynn Forester de Rothschild (born 1954), businesswoman
Edward Maurice Stonor (1885–1930), son of Francis Stonor, 4th Baron Camoys.
– Lady Pamela Wellesley Grant (born 1912), great-great-granddaughter of the Duke of Wellington, married Lieutenant Charles Robert Archibald Grant, great-great-grandson of Mayer Amschel de Rothschild.
Baroness Rozsika Edle von Wertheimstein
Baron Etienne van Zuylen van Nyevelt of the House of Van Zuylen van Nyevelt – married Baroness Hélène de Rothschild (1863–1947).
– Baron Sigismund von Springer (1873–1927), married Baroness Valentine Noémi von Rothschild (1886–1969), after whom the asteroid 703 Noëmi is named.
In 1943 Baron Elie Robert de Rothschild (1917–2007), married Lady Liliane Elisabeth Victoire Fould-Springer, great-aunt of actress Helena Bonham Carter.
In 2015, James Rothschild married American heiress and socialite Nicky Hilton, the great-granddaughter of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton

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