Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma
Félix of Bourbon-Parma | |||||
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Prince consort of Luxembourg | |||||
Tenure | 6 November 1919 – 12 November 1964 | ||||
Born | Schwarzau am Steinfeld, Austria | 28 October 1893||||
Died | 8 April 1970 Fischbach Castle, Luxembourg | (aged 76)||||
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Spouse | Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (m. 1919) | ||||
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Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal |
Prince Félix of Bourbon-Parma[1] (later Prince Félix of Luxembourg; 28 September 1893[2] – 8 April 1970) was the husband of Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg and the father of her six children, including her successor Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. By birth to his father Robert I, Duke of Parma, he was a member of the House of Bourbon-Parma and one descendant of King Philip V of Spain. Prince Félix was the longest-serving consort of Luxembourg.
Early life
Prince Félix was one of the 24 children of the deposed
He was also the younger brother (by sixteen months) of
Less than four months after Robert's death in 1907 the
During the Battle of Caporetto, Prince Félix accompanied his brother-in-law Charles I of Austria, who had been visiting troops on the Italian front, on a return journey to Trieste. When they were crossing the Torre (river), the Emperor's car became stuck in the stream and it was deemed necessary to carry the Emperor to the river bank. However, the driver and aide-de-camp, who were carrying the Emperor, slipped and they were all caught in the current. Seeing this, Prince Félix, along with several chauffeurs, jumped into the river and, with the help of some planks, brought the Emperor and others to shore.[3]
Félix served in the Austrian Dragoons as Lieutenant and Captain, but resigned his commission in November 1918, when Austria-Hungary dissolved.
Marriage to Grand Duchess Charlotte
On 6 November 1919 in
Felix was president of the Luxembourg
Urban legend has it that Félix lost the Grünewald, a forest owned by the Grand Duchess, at a casino in 1934, but this is false; part of the property was sold, along with Berg Castle, to the Luxembourgian government, with the revenue paying for the upkeep of the grand-ducal household, and was not spent on personal consumption, let alone gambling losses.[5]
During
Death
Prince Félix died at Fischbach Castle on 8 April 1970. His funeral mass was held at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame and he was later buried in the crypt of the cathedral.[citation needed]
Marriage and children
On 6 November 1919 in
- Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1921–2019), who married HRH Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium (1927–2005), and had issue.
- Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg (1922–2011), who married HSH Franz, Duke of Hohenberg(1927–1977), and had issue.
- Princess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg (1924–2007), who married Count Karl Josef Henckel von Donnersmarck (1928–2008), and had issue.
- Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg (1925–2023), who married Knud Johan, Count of Holstein-Ledreborg (1919–2001), and had issue.
- Prince Charles of Luxembourg (1927–1977), who married Joan Douglas Dillon (born 1935), the former wife of James Brady Moseley, and had issue.
- Antoine, 13th Prince of Ligne(1925–2005), and had issue.
Titles, honours and awards
- 28 October 1893 – 5 November 1919: His Royal Highness Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma
- 5 November 1919 – 6 November 1919: His Royal Highness Prince Felix of Luxembourg
- 6 November 1919 – 12 November 1964: His Royal Highness The Prince Consort of Luxembourg
- 12 November 1964 – 8 April 1970: His Royal Highness Prince Felix of Luxembourg
Honours
- National
- Luxembourg: Knight of the Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau[citation needed]
- Luxembourg: President of the Luxembourg Red Cross[citation needed]
- Parmese Ducal Family: Grand Cross of the Order of St. Louis for Civil Merit[citation needed]
- Foreign
- Order of Fidelity (1931)[8]
- Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Family: Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen (1917)[9]
- Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold[citation needed]
- Netherlands: Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- Norway: Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav (1964)[10]
- Military Order of St. Benedict of Aviz (24 February 1950)[11]
- Royal Order of the Seraphim(18 July 1951)
- Thailand: Knight of the Order of the Royal House of Chakri (17 October 1960)[12]
Ancestry
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Patrilineal descent
Patrilineal descent |
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Felix's patriline is the line from which he is descended father to son. Patrilineal descent is the principle behind membership in royal houses, as it can be traced back through the generations - which means that if Prince Felix were to choose an historically accurate house name it would be Robertian, as all his male-line ancestors have been of that house.
Felix is a member of the House of Bourbon-Spain, itself originally a branch of the House of Bourbon, and thus of the Capetian dynasty and of the Robertians .
Felix's patriline is the line from which he is descended father to son. It follows the Dukes of Parma as well as the Kings of Spain, France, and Navarre. The line can be traced back more than 1,200 years from Robert of Hesbaye to the present day, through Kings of France & Navarre, Spain and Two-Sicilies, Dukes of Parma and Grand-Dukes of Luxembourg, Princes of Orléans and Emperors of Brazil. It is one of the oldest in Europe.
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Footnotes and references
- ^ Arrêté grand-ducal du 17 juillet 1945 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine – "Legilux" Legal information website of the Luxembourg government
- ^ a b birth record in church book of parish Schwarzau am Steinfeld, p. 02-Taufe_0031
- ^ Polzer-Hoditz, Arthur (1930). The Emperor Karl. Translated by Tait, D. F.; Flint, F. S. Houghton Mifflin Company. pp. 371–372.
- ^ per Arrêté grand-ducal du 5 novembre 1919. (Published in Mémorial A n° 74 de 1919).
- ^ Juncker, Jean-Claude (15 February 2007). "Réponse à la question parlementaire no.1220 du 4 août 2006 de Messieurs les Députés Gast Gibéryen et Roby Mehlen" (PDF) (in French). Investigateur. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 28 June 2007.
- ^ “A fuga da família grã-ducal”, by Margarida de Magalhães Ramalho (2019)
- ^ Bernier Arcand, Philippe (2010). "L'exil québécois du gouvernement du Luxembourg" (PDF). Histoire Québec. 15 (3): 19–26 – via Erudit.
- ^ Albanian Royal Court
- ^ "Ritter-Orden: St. Stephan-orden", Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, 1918, p. 56, retrieved 2 November 2019
- ^ "Den kongelige norske Sanct Olavs Orden", Norges Statskalender for Aaret 1970 (in Norwegian), Oslo: Forlagt av H. Aschehoug & Co. (w. Nygaard), 1970, pp. 1240–1241 – via runeberg.org
- ^ "ENTIDADES ESTRANGEIRAS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS - Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas".
- Royal Thai Government Gazette (28 December 1960). "แจ้งความสำนักนายกรัฐมนตรี เรื่อง พระราชทานเครื่องราชอิสริยาภรณ์" (PDF) (in Thai). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2019.)
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