Sharing insights from notable legacies

Celebrity Legacy

The real von Trapp family's story inspired the play and movie, The Sound of Music

Széchenyi was a respected national statesman and today is known as “the Greatest Hungarian”

Croatian & Hungarian

Poets And Heros

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Countess Katarina Frankopan Zrinska, 10x-great-grandmother
Georg & Agathe Foundation - Count Fran Krsto Frankopan, 10x-great-grandfather
Georg & Agathe Foundation - Count Pétar Zrinski and Count Nikola Zrinski, 11x-great-uncles

Engineer, Robert Whitehead

vonTrapp.org - The von Trapp family's 22 year musical career and 2,000+ performances throughout 30 countries
vonTrapp.org - Trapp Family Music Camp
vonTrapp.org - Trapp Family Austrian Relief Inc.: the largest private US post-World War II relief efforts

Medical Thilenius Family

Agathe's grandfather, Robert Whitehead, was a British engineering and inventor of the torpedo

Photo: © 21st Century Fox

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Historical Figures: Nahl family of artists, through 3x-great-grandmother, Clementine Emilie Nahl
January 1937, University of Berkeley, California Art Research Project - The Nahl Family: eight generations of artists

Dr. Thilenius came from a long line of medical doctors and founded the family branch specializing in Balneology (study of medical springs)

17th to 19th century Swiss and Duchy of Hesse (today Germany) family of artists

One of the world's most beloved, enduring, and popular musicals of all times

Rodgers and Hammerstein - Our Shows: The Sound of Music
20th Century Fox - 1965 Movie Trailer
IMBd - Awards List
vonTrapp.org - The Sound of Music History: from reality to legend

17th & 18th century Hungarian independence freedom-fighter against the Habsburg Empire

Descendant of Robert Whitehead, British engineer and inventor of the torpedo

Johanna

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Medical Lineage - Thilenius family, through 4x-great-grandfather, Dr. Moritz Gerhard Thilenius
Lauterbacher Anzeiger, Hessen Newspaper [article is German] - Dr. M.G. Thilenius works with Mayor in the 18th century

Parents to the von Trapp children portrayed in the play and movie, The Sound of music

FREEDOM-FIGHTER,

Princess Illona Zrinyi

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Princess Ilona Zrínyi, 9x-great-grandmother
Consulate General of Hungary, New York, USA - Famous women in Hungarian history
Encyclopedia.com - Zrinyi, Ilona

Musicians, von Trapp Children

Marta

Photo: Courtesy of von Trapp family

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Historical Figures: 9x-great-uncle, Prince Ferenc Rákóczy, and 8x-great-grandfather, Count Janos Pálffy
Encyclopedia Britannica - Ferenc Rákóczi, II: Prince of Transylvania
Rákóczi Múzeuma, Sarospatak, Hungary [website is in Hungarian] - Website

Johanna II directly descends from multiple historic legacies. She is a granddaughter of Baron Captain Georg von Trapp, World War I Austro-Hungarian naval hero and father of the von Trapp children—whose family's life story inspired the world-renowned musical, The Sound of Music—and his first wife Agathe Gobertina Whitehead, granddaughter of British engineer Robert Whitehead, inventor of the torpedo. Johanna II is a daughter of Johanna von Trapp of the Trapp Family Choir and Trapp Family Singers, later portrayed as the second youngest von Trapp child, 'Marta', in the play and movie. Her ancestors also are Hungarian & Croatian dynasties and national-heroes: Esterházy, Erdödy, Pálffy, Széchenyi, Rákóczy, Zrínyi, and Frangepán.

Photo: © Georg & Agathe Foundation