Alfonso of Bourbon Sicily

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Prince Alfons of Bourbon-Sicily , full name Alfonso Maria Leo Christinus Alfonso di Liguori Antonio Francesco Saverio (born November 30, 1901 in Madrid , † February 3, 1964 ibid) was a member of the House of Bourbon and from 1904 to 1907 as Prince of Asturias Contender for the Spanish royal crown.

Life

Alfons was a son of Prince Carlos Maria de Bourbon- Sicily (1870-1949) and his first wife María de las Mercedes de Borbón (1880-1904), Infanta of Spain, eldest daughter of the Spanish King Alfonso XII. and the Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria . His paternal grandparents were Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta , and Princess Maria Antonia of Bourbon-Sicily .

Asturias coat of arms

Prince Alfons was heir to the Spanish throne from birth. The Spanish heir to the throne has had the title " Prince of Asturias " ( Príncipe de Asturias ) since 1388 , after the death of his mother he was entitled to this title because his uncle King Alfonso XIII. was still without legitimate offspring. That changed when he married Princess Victoria Eugénie von Battenberg in 1906 and his first son, Infante Alfons Pius de Borbón , was born a year later .

On April 16, 1936, Prince Alfons married Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma (1917-2017), daughter of the titular Duke Elias of Bourbon-Parma and his wife Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria-Teschen, in the Vienna Minorite Church . The marriage had three children.

After the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War , the skillful tactician Francisco Franco (1892–1975) met the monarchists in Spain , in 1945 he promised them a later reintroduction of the monarchy , and in 1947 he passed a law stating that one of him to be determined person of royal blood should succeed as head of state after his death. For this purpose, his son, Don Carlos and his nephew, who later became King Juan Carlos I , were prepared for the office in a separate school.

When the older brother of his father, the Sicilian heir to the throne Prince Ferdinand , died in 1960 at the age of ninety without male heirs, a dispute broke out between Alfons and his uncle Prince Ranieri over the Sicilian succession to the throne. The title Duke of Calabria , which traditionally belongs to the Sicilian heir to the throne, was claimed by both and the dispute over the title and leadership of the House of Bourbon-Sicily was passed on to their descendants.

The mortal remains of Alfonso of Bourbon-Sicily were transferred to the El Escorial castle and monastery complex in 1964 , where they were initially kept in the pudridero of the Pantheon of the Infants. This is a publicly inaccessible room in which the corpses can initially rot. In 2004 he was finally buried in a marble sarcophagus in Chapel 1 of the Pantheon of the Infants .

progeny

  • Theresa (* 1937) ⚭ 1961 Inigo Moreno y Artega, Marques de Laula (* 1934)
  • Carlos (1938–2015), Duke of Calabria
⚭ 1965 Princess Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie d'Orléans (* 1938)
  • Inés Maria (* 1940) ⚭ 1965 Luis Morales y Aguado (1933–2000)

Titles, orders and honors

title

  • 1901–1964 Prince of Bourbon-Sicily
  • 1901–1964 Infant of Spain
  • 1904–1907 Prince of Asturias
  • 1960–1964 Duke of Calabria

medal

literature

  • Arnold McNaughton: The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy , London (1973)
  • Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd: Burkes Royal Families of the World , London (1977)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alice Maria di Borbone, Principessa di Parma. In: www.thepeerage.com. April 2, 2017. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Alfonso of Bourbon Sicily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alfonso Maria Leo Christinus Alfonso di Liguori Antonio Francesco Saverio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish nobleman, member of the House of Bourbon, Duke of Calabria
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1964
Place of death Madrid