Background
Nathaniel de Rothschild was born on 2 July 1812 in London.
Nathaniel de Rothschild was born on 2 July 1812 in London.
He established the Château Mouton Rothschild. He was the fourth child of Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836) and Hannah West. Cohen (1783–1850). In 1853, he acquired the Château Brane Mouton, a vineyard in Pauillac in the Gironde département from a Paris banker named Thuret who had previously bought it from Baron Hector de Branne in 1830.
Rothschild paid 1,175,000 francs for Brane-Mouton"s 65 acres (263,000 m²) of vineyards and renamed the estate, Château Mouton Rothschild.
lieutenant would become one of the world"s best known winemakers. A prestigious first growth (premier cru) property more than three times the size of Chateau Mouton, it created a family rivalry.
In the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855, Château Mouton was ranked second, something that upset its owner a great deal. In response, he composed the motto: Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis.
("First I cannot be, second I do not choose to be, Mouton I am").
Personal life
They had the following children:
Nathalie de Rothschild (1843-1843)
James Nathan de Rothschild (1844–1881)
Mayer Albert de Rothschild (1846–1850)
Arthur de Rothschild (1851–1903)
At the time it was rented to the Russian Embassy but when the lease ran out in 1864, he renovated the building and made it his city residence. In 1878, Nathaniel bought the Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay in Cernay-la-Ville in the Vallée de Chevreuse, at the time only a ruins of a Cistercian abbey built in 1118. Death
He died on 19 February 1870 in Paris, France.
He was a member of the Rothschild banking family of England, closely connected to the Rothschild banking family of France.