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  1. Ludwig Philipp married Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg, fifth child and daughter of William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and his wife Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, on 14 November 1922 in Hohenburg, Bavaria, Germany.

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    The Tasso family (from the Italian word for "badger", the family's heraldic animal) was a Lombard family in the area of Bergamo. The earliest records place them in Almenno in the Val Brembana around 1200, before they fled to the more distant village of Cornello to escape feuding between Bergamo's Colleoni (Guelf) and Suardi (Ghibelline) families. A...

    The Thurn and Taxis family came to massive media attention during the late 1970s through mid-1980s when Prince Johannes married Countess Mariae Gloria of Schönburg-Glauchau, a member of an impoverished but mediatized noble family. The couple's wild, "jet set" lifestyle and Princess Gloria's over-the-top appearance (characterized by bright hair colo...

    The mail monopoly of Thurn and Taxis is central to the plot of The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.
    The board game Thurn and Taxis, by Andreas Seyfarthand Karen Seyfarth, is inspired by the family.
    The protagonist of Walter Jon Williams's Elegy for Angels and Dogsis the head of the Thurn und Taxis family.
    Thurn und Taxis are also mentioned in several volumes of the 163x series by Eric Flint and others, e.g. 1635: The Dreeson Incident and 1636: The Saxon Uprising.
    Wolfgang Behringer, Thurn und Taxis, Die Geschichte ihrer Post und ihrer Unternehmen, München, Zürich 1990 ISBN 3-492-03336-9
    Martin Dallmeier, Quellen zur Geschichte des europäischen Postwesens, Kallmünz 1977
    Martin Dallmeier and Martha Schad, Das Fürstliche Haus Thurn und Taxis, 300 Jahre Geschichte in Bildern, Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-7917-1492-9
    Fritz Ohmann, Die Anfänge des Postwesens und die Taxis, Leipzig 1909
  2. La Casa Principesca de Thurn y Taxis (en alemán: Das Fürstenhaus von Thurn und Taxis) es una familia aristócrata alemana que desempeñó un gran papel en el servicio postal en Europa durante el siglo XVI, siendo hoy bastante conocida por ser la propietaria de numerosas cervecerías y constructora de un gran número de castillos además de ...

  3. After the death of his elder brother Franz Josef in 1971, Karl August was aged 73 when he succeeded as Head of the House of Thurn and Taxis. During this time, he was responsible for the modernization of the agricultural and forestry possessions of the House of Thurn and Taxis, and he built homes for his workers and employees.