House of Hochbach-Kundarheim

From Empire of Karnia-Ruthenia
House of Hochbach-Kundarheim
Country Karnia-Ruthenia
TitlesPrince Kundarheim
Margrave von und zu Hochbach
Prince of Wigmaransz
FounderHIllH Wilhelm, Margrave Hochbach
Current headHSH Wilhelm, Prince Kundarheim
Founding2016
EthnicityItalians

The House of Hochbach-Kundarheim is a noble family of princes and margraves of Karnia-Ruthenia. The family of Italian origins dates back to the eighteenth century and were nobilited by the Emperor-King of Karnia-Ruthenia 2016 as Margrave von und zu Hochbach. On 30 June 2018, they were raised as a noble house as Princes Kundarheim.

The style used for them is "His/Her Serene Highness, Prince/Princess X of Kundarheim", while the heir use the style of "His/Her Illustrious Highness, Hereditary Prince/Princess X Kundarheim".

Prince Ludwig Karl and Princess Helene had two children, Prince Wilhelm, current head of the House and Princess Danielle, who currently is the heir of her brother and Hereditary Princess von und zu Hochbach-Kundarheim.

Previously, the family was the holder of the title of Prince of Wigmaransz, but the title was declared extinct on 2018.

Origins[edit | edit source]

Born in Cosenza, at the time Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the family arrived in Brazil after the beginning of the unification wars in 1860, through Pancracio Cundari, who settled in Pindamonhangaba, in the interior of the State of São Paulo, where he worked as a farmer and acquired lands near downtown.

In 1913, he moves to Caçapava, a nearby city, where he continued his office and later changed to the textile branch. He had a son around 1870, Pedro Cundari, who in 1914 returned to Pindamonhangaba and directed his father's lands in the cultivation of coffee, branch in which he would stay until 1940. He created his grandson in these farms, Jayme Cundari, son of his son of the same name, who would come to learn the craft of watchmaking, becoming famous in the region for his work on wall clocks.

With the growth of the city, the coffee culture that the family had kept was sold and turned into a commercial center. From his marriage, Jayme gets seven children, the last of them, Helene, who would convey the name to the present head of the princely house, Wilhelm von und zu Hochbach.

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