Alfons Pius de Borbon

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Prince Alfonso in 1922
Prince Alfonso in 1927

Prince Alfonso Pío Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Fernando Antonio Venancio de Borbón y Battenberg (born May 10, 1907 in Madrid , Spain , † September 6, 1938 in Miami , Florida , USA ) was Infante of Spain and Prince of Asturias and Count of Covadonga .

Life

Coat of arms of the Prince of Asturias

Alfons Pius was the eldest son of the Spanish King Alfonso XIII. and his wife Princess Victoria Eugénie von Battenberg , daughter of Prince Heinrich Moritz von Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of Great Britain and Ireland . His paternal grandparents were King Alfonso XII. and his second wife, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria . Alfons Pius and his younger brother Gonzalo Manuel suffered from hemophilia because her mother, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria , winner ( Konduktorin was) the defective gene.

Two years after the proclamation of the Spanish Republic, Alfons Pius renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 because he married the commoner Edelmira Sampedro-Robato (1906-1994) in Lausanne. The couple then bore the title of Count or Countess of Covadonga . The marriage ended in divorce after only four years. With the Cuban Marta Ester Rocafort-Altazarra (1913-1993) he married again, which failed after only six months. Shortly before he could remarry his first wife, he died in a car accident in Miami. Alfons Pius was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Miami; In 1985 his body was transferred to Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial and rests in Chapel 2 of the Pantheon of the Infants .

Offices and Awards

  • 1907–1938 Infant of Spain
  • 1907–1933 Prince of Asturias
  • 1933–1938 Count of Covadonga
  • Carrier of the Order of the Golden Fleece

See also

literature

  • Arnold McNaughton: The Book of Kings. A Royal Genealogy. Garnstone Press, London 1973, ISBN 0900391197 .

Web links

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predecessor Office successor
Maria de las Mercedes of Bourbon and Habsburg-Lorraine Prince of Asturias
1907–1933 		Juan of Bourbon and Battenberg
personal data
SURNAME Alfons Pius de Borbon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alfons Pius, Count of Covadonga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Infantry and Prince of Asturias (1907–1933)
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1938
Place of death Miami