Robert Rothschild
Baron Robert Rothschild (16 December 1911 – 3 December 1998)[1] was a Belgian diplomat. He helped to draft the Treaty of Rome of 1957, the foundation of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1958.
The Baron Rothschild
Bernhard Rothschild
Marianne Elisabeth Rijnveld
Early life[edit]
Rothschild was born on 16 December 1911, in Brussels. He was the son of Bernhard Rothschild (1884–1964) and Marianne Elisabeth (née Rijnveld) Rothschild and his brother was Marcel Rothschild.[2] His father, a businessman of German-Jewish descent, descended from Moses Amschel Bauer, of Frankfurt am Main, whose son Mayer Amschel Rothschild, together with his five sons, founded the Rothschild banking dynasty. His paternal grandparents were Sybille (née Stiel) Rothschild and David Rothschild.[3]
He attended the Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels.[2]
Personal life[edit]
In 1937, Rothschild was married to Renée Marcelle Mattman. They divorced in 1967 and he married Mary (née Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax) Hollond (1925–2017), former wife of Robert Gustaf Percy Hollond (a son of Maj.-Gen. Spencer Edmund Hollond), and daughter of Admiral Sir Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, on 24 May 1978.[9]
Rothschild died in London on 3 December 1998.[2]
