Saint-Brieuc (Breton name Sant-Brieg), commune in the Côtes-d'Armor Department in Brittany in north-western France
After the war, the town — called Brieg in German — with most of Silesia was annexed from Austria to Prussia.
One of her granddaughters, Countess Maria Eleonora of Kaunitz-Rietberg, was the first wife of Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich.
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Her only daughter, Leopoldine, was the direct ancestor of the House of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst.
While a student he officiated during the holy days at Brieg, Silesia (1857), and at Stockholm, Sweden (1858).
It was from Brieg garrison, the German Cavalry Captain (Rittmeister) Konrad Freiherr von Wangenheim became famous for securing a Gold medal win at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin for the German equestrian team whilst suffering with a broken collarbone.
He worked in turn as student and teacher in Brieg and Estavayé in Switzerland; in Spain, Le Passage near San Sebastian; in Belgium, the College of Brugelette.
John I and Henry X were the legitimate heirs of that land, as grandsons of Duke Henry IX of Lüben, elder brother of Duke Louis II, Elisabeth's late husband, who left her Liegnitz and Brieg (already give by the Dowager Duchess to both brothers in 1443) in 1436; in addition, John I had another claim over Liegnitz through his marriage with Hedwig, youngest daughter of Louis II and Elisabeth.
Albert's only legitimate children were from Margaret of Brieg, he had no issue by Margaret of Cleves, but they held court together in The Hague.
He entered the Society of Jesus at Brieg in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, 1834, was expelled from the country with the other Jesuits in 1847, and ordained priest at Ay in Southern France, 1848.