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 HURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 771 General Count Nicholas do Castella. The branch of Yillardin is also now extinct, but tlintof Dellcv is still represented inFribourg. All derive (heir origin IVoni, JoiiANNETUS Casteli.a, of Nigrn-aqua (now Jferive), owner of the tithes of Nigra- aqua and Montbovon. lie lived from 13(55 to 1401, and appears in several documents as fidei-jiissor of Kudolphe IV, Count; de Gruvi'^ve, a i)overful lord whose estates hclil some 50,000 inhabitant?. Johannctus Cas- tella had a sou, EOLETUS Castella, of Nigra-aqua, who djinii before 1412, left a son, Eor.ET (RoDotruE) Castella, banneret of Gr^^y^rc. who m. 14-12, Francoiso HuGO- XIER, and d. 1490, leaving a son, Loris DE Castella, Seigneur of Villardvo- lard (Jure ujroris), and banneret of Griiyere, who is recorded as having accompanied the Count de Gruyere as banneret at the battle of Morat(147G). He m. Louise deSalieei, and by her became possessor of the lordship of Vil- lardvolard, which his descendants retained till 1590. lie d. 1493, leaving issue, Jean de Castella, banneret of Gruyfere (who became through his wife, Isabella DE Mcsr, Lord of Chatel St. Denys), and, EoDOLPiiE DE Castella, co-seigneur of Tillardvolard, who was received patrician of Fribourg, 1515; m. 1516, Jeanne DE Mail- LAED, and had issue, Jean de Castella (who was made governor of the county of Gruyere by the Helvetic diet, after the taking posses- sion of the estates of the last count by the cantons of Berne, and Fribourg), and, Fkanijois de Castella, co-seigneur of Tillardvolard, who m. Pernette de la Tinaz (who d. 1586), and d. 1570, leaving issue, RoDOLPHE DE Castella, co-seigneur of Villardvolard, which lordship he and his brothers sold to Xicolas d'Alex, 28th July, 1590. He d. 1611, leaving a son, Claude de Castella, who m. Pernon de Geuteke-Akjumont, and d. 1659, having had a son, Jean de Castella, b. 1625, m. 2nd Octo- ber, 1679, Claudia Glasson, and d. 15th February, 1720, aged 95, leaving a son, Jeax JcsEPii de Castella, h. 1686 ; m. 14th February, 1720, Fran(oise Paeys, and d. 30th May, 1769, aged 83, leaving a son, Jean Francois Paul de Castella, Lieutenant Baillival de Bullc, i. 101 h Feb- ruary, 1728; III. KJtIi February, 1757, Anno DE (i'liEXArx, and (/. 7th June, 1800, aged SO, having had a son, Jean Franqois de Castella, who was J. 1759 ; m. 4th June, 1787, Caroline Orsat DE Coebieke, and d. v. j>. 1788, aged 29, leaving an only son, Jean FEAXfOis Paul de Castella, Knight of the Eed Eagle of Prussia, member of the Patrician Council of Fribourg, until the Revolution of 1830, b. 1788; m. first, at Paris, 1810, Fclicite Jordan, and by her (who d. at jVeuchatel, Switzerland, 1813") had one son, I. Ernest Franfjois, b. at Paris, 1811 ; w. Athcnais Asdieu, and d. in 18C2, leaving issue, 1. Albert, J. 1854. 2. Eodolphc, b. 1856. He m. secondly, 1821, Eleonore, daughter of Nicolas Charles riE EiAZ (by Francjoise DU Pasquieh, his wife), and sister of H. Charles DK EiAZ, the last of that family, who was a distinguished Swiss statesman and for forty years the leader of the government of Fribourg. By this ludy he had issue, II. Charles IIvbeet, of Fribourg, Switzerland, formerly of St. Hubert's, Lilydalc, Victoria, the subject of this memoir. III. Paul Frederic, of Yerirg, Victoria (Club — Melbourne), one of the pioneens, with his brother Charles Hubert, of the Australian wine industry, b. 1827 ; m. 1856, Elizabeth Anne, daughter of Lieiitenaut-Colonel Joseph Andeeson, C.B., K.H., of the 50th Regiment, by Mary Campbell, his wife, and has had issue, 1. Rudolph Alovs, J.P. for Victoria, b. 1858, d. 1888. 1. Eleonore Fairlie. 2. Beatrice Mary. 3. Nina Nathalie. Mr. P. F. de Castella emigrated to Melbourne in 1849, and jiurchased the Yering station from Mr. William Eyrie in 1850, on which station had been planted in 1810 the first Victorian vineyard, which Mr. Paul de Castella, in 1860, extended to one hundred acres. At the Paris International Exhibition of 1889, his Yering wine won one of the seven Grand Prix which were allotted to wine-growers of the whole world. IV. Charles Louis, Knight of Leopold, of Austria, Knight of the Crown of Ii-on, Commander of the Order of St. Slanilaus of Eussia, Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella of Spain, etc., major-general in the Austrian service, and ex-governor of H.I. and R.H. the Archduke Frederic of Austria, b. 1829, )«. Emma, Counters de Zieeotin. I. Louise Melanie, in. Henry, Count de DiESBACn, Prince of S(a. Agatha, who (/. 1876, leading issue, 1. Maximilien, Count de Diesharh, Prince of Sta. Agatlia, b. 1851 ; 1)1. Matliilde, only daughter of A. VON DEE Weii), by Mary his wife, grand-daughter and co-heir of Guilhiume, Count D'Affry Landamman of the Helvetic Confederation under Napoleon I, and lias issue, (1) Hubert, b. 1876. (2) Henry, b. 1877. (1) Helc'ne. 2. George, Count, de Dicsbach, major of Swiss Dragoons, b. 1858; m. Caroline DE Salomon, and has issue, (1) Charles, b. 1886. 3 '^