Editing Claus von Stauffenberg (section)

==Family history==
{{see also|Stauffenberg}}
Stauffenberg was born in Stauffenberg Castle, [[Jettingen-Scheppach|Jettingen]] on 15 November 1907 and baptised as Claus Philipp Maria Justinian.<ref>{{NDB|22|679|680|Schenk von Stauffenberg, Claus Graf|Hartmann, Christian|118642537}}</ref><ref>Gerd Wunder: ''Die Schenken von Stauffenberg.'' Müller & Gräff, 1972, pg. 480</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gräfin von Stauffenberg: Abschied von einer Zeitzeugin |url=https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/guenzburg/Graefin-von-Stauffenberg-Abschied-von-einer-Zeitzeugin-id50646196.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623165838/https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/guenzburg/Graefin-von-Stauffenberg-Abschied-von-einer-Zeitzeugin-id50646196.html |archive-date=23 June 2018 |access-date=23 June 2018|publisher=Augsburger Allgemeine}}</ref> Born into the ancient [[Stauffenberg|House of Stauffenberg]], he was the third of four sons of Count Alfred Schenk von Stauffenberg (1860–1936), the last [[Hofmarschall|Oberhofmarschall]] of the [[Kingdom of Württemberg]] and his wife, Countess Caroline von [[Uexküll|Üxküll-Gyllenband]] (1875–1956), the daughter of Count Alfred Richard August von Üxküll-Gyllenband (1838–1877) and Countess Valerie von [[Hohenthal]] (1841–1878).<ref>{{cite web |title=Alfred Klemens Schenk von Stauffenberg |url=https://gw.geneanet.org/cepatri?lang=en&n=schenk+von+stauffenberg&oc=0&p=alfred+klemens |access-date=23 June 2018 |publisher=geneanet}}</ref>

From birth, Stauffenberg inherited the hereditary titles of [[Imperial Count|Graf]] and [[Cup-bearer|Schenk]], leaving him referred to by his first name and Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg until the 1919 Weimar Constitutional Law abolished privileges of nobility''.<ref>{{cite web |title=First Chapter: The Individual |url=http://www.zum.de/psm/weimar/weimar_vve.php#First%20Chapter%20:%20The%20Individual |access-date=23 June 2018 |publisher=The Reich Constitution of 11 August 1919 (Weimar Constitution) with Modifications}}</ref>'' His maternal ancestors included Field Marshal [[August von Gneisenau]].<ref>{{cite news |date=5 April 2006 |title=Countess von Stauffenberg |newspaper=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1514824/Countess-von-Stauffenberg.html |access-date=23 June 2018}}</ref>