page_title: Lola Montez
section_title: Burial
hierarchical_section_title: Lola Montez / Biography / Burial
caption_attribution_description: English: Both sides of the gravestone of Lola Montez, buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
context_page_description: Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld, better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan, and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Gräfin von Landsfeld. At the start of the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states, she was forced to flee. She proceeded to the United States via Austria, Switzerland, France and London, returning to her work as an entertainer and lecturer.
context_section_description: By 1860, Lola was showing the tertiary effects of syphilis and her body began to waste away. She died at the age of 39  on 17 January 1861. She is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, where her tombstone states: "Mrs. Eliza Gilbert / Died 17 January 1861".
caption: Lola Montez grave in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
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