Margot von Beroldingen

Margot Marie Norris ( Stone, formerly Countess von Beroldingen) (14 October 1878 – 1968) was an American heiress who married an Austrian aristocrat.

Early life Margot Marie Stone was born in Paris, France on 14 October 1878. She was the youngest of three daughters of Joseph Foulke Stone (1840–1886) and Mary Groesbeck Burnet (1846). Her father was educated at the University of Geneva and became a stock broker and member of the New York Stock Exchange before his retirement in , shortly before Margot's birth. The family had a home on Fifth Avenue in New York City and summered in Newport, Rhode Island before his death in 1886. a major in the German Army during the Franco-Prussian War who served as chamberlain to Princess Viktoria of Schaumburg-Lippe.

Her paternal grandparents were Henry Asaph Stone and Mary ( Foulke) Stone (a daughter of the wealthy banker and merchant Joseph Foulke, who had a summer home "on an eminence at the foot of the present East Eighty-ninth Street, overlooking Hell Gate in the East River" which "adjoined those of the Astors, Bayards, Rhinelanders, Schermerhorns and other prominent New York families").

Personal life On 3 February 1904, she was married to Count Alexander Klemens Karl Mauritz von Beroldingen (1877–1940), an Austrian officer in the German Army, at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation on 35th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City. (Her sister, Emma Stone, was the maid of honor and the bridesmaids were Miss Mamie Pomeroy (her cousin), Gertrude Wood, Mary Fowler and Evelyn Blight.) Born in Stuttgart, Württemberg (then a Federal State of the German Empire), he was a son of Count Klemens Joseph Leopold von Beroldingen and his wife, Baroness Alexandrine von Hügel (a daughter of Baron Karl Eugen von Hügel). who served as chairman of VfB Stuttgart and Eintracht Frankfurt, and his mother Alexandrine was a first cousin of Count Paul von Hügel (who married Princess Amalie of Teck, paternal aunt of Queen Mary). Before their divorce, they were the parents of:

Countess Margaret Marie Alexandrine von Beroldingen (b. 1904), When she visited the U.S., she stayed with her unmarried aunt, Emma Stone, at the Stone Villa in Newport (formerly the home of James Gordon Bennett Jr.).

On 18 March 1911, she married Samuel Norris (1862–1941) at her mother's house on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The son of Samuel and Isabella Eustis ( Dimond) Norris, and grandson of Rhode Island Gov. Francis M. Dimond, he was a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he was a representative in the Rhode Island Legislature from 1897 to 1899 and, since 1901, secretary and counsel of the United States Rubber Company.

Her first husband, Count von Beroldingen, died in Munich in 1940 and her second husband, Samuel Norris, died in Ridgefield, Connecticut in September 1941. Norris died in 1968, after living at 66 Kay Street in Newport (a home designed by Dudley Newton). Her estate was worth $784,508 in 1971.