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- BIOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Cumings belonged to the family of Cumings of Coulter, in Scotland, a family descending from Sir John Comyn of Badenoch, 'The Black Cumyn', who lived in 1296. With her first husband, John Christ, an expert in horsebreeding, she went to Poland where he became master of a princely stud. In 1722 their only child, a daughter, was born and shortly afterwards she must have lost her husband as on 11 May 1727 she married Prince Johannes Theodor Lubomirski who, subsequently, adopted her daughter.
In 1744 her daughter married Count Miklós Esterházy and, when shortly afterwards she lost her second husband, she joined the household of her daughter and son-in-law in Vienna. She supervised the upbringing of her grandchildren during the prolonged absences of the parents abroad. She was much revered by the immediate family and appears to have carved for herself an enviable position in Viennese society. One of her more noted friends was the brilliant Prince de Ligne. She survived both her daughter and son-in-law and died, in the 87th year of her life, in her house at 74 Teinfaltstrasse. (According to L. Berényi)
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