Antoine Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier
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Louis Antoine Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier (born July 3, 1775 in Paris , † May 18, 1807 in Twickenham , England ) was the younger brother of the last French king, Louis Philip I.
Life
Antoine Philippe was the second son of Louis-Philippe II Joseph de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans (1747-1793) and his wife Princess Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre (1753-1821), only daughter of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre and his wife Princess Marie-Thérèse-Félicité d'Este-Modena. His paternal grandparents were Duke Ludwig Philipp I of Orléans and Princess Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti .
At first he was brought up with his older brothers by Félicité de Genlis , after she became his father's mistress , in 1783 Abbé Mariottini took over the education of the royal princes. When the French Revolution broke out , Antoine Philippe was fourteen years old. His father was nicknamed Égalité and was a keen supporter of the republic. After General Charles-François Dumouriez's plan to march to Paris and overthrow the republic failed, he was an accomplice, and on April 5 he fled with him from angry soldiers into the Austrian lines. But he was later caught and, like all the other Bourbons still alive in France, placed under house arrest. On November 6, 1793, his father was tried and guillotined the same day . Three years later the Directory offered his older brother Louis-Phillippe their release if he left the country for America. So he went to the United States and settled in Philadelphia in October , followed a few months later by Antoine Philippe and Louis Charles. For two years they traveled around New England, the Great Lakes region and the Mississippi River . Then when the news of Napoleon's coup d'état of 18th Brumaire arrived, they decided to return to Europe . When they arrived there in 1800, they found that Napoleon Bonaparte had already consolidated his power.
Antoine Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier, died of tuberculosis on May 18, 1807 in Twickenham near London , where he had been taken to exchange air . He was buried in Westminster Abbey .
Works
- Memoirs of HRH Anton Philipps von Orleans, Duke of Montpensier, Prince of the Blood. Translated from the second edition of the French by Gustav Sellen , trans. by Gustav Sellen, Leipzig 1828 ( digitized version )
ancestors
| Pedigree of Antoine-Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier | ||||||||
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| Great-great-grandparents |
King |
Anne-Jules de Noailles (1650–1708) |
Rinaldo d'Este (1655–1737) |
Philippe II. De Bourbon, duc d'Orléans (1674–1723) |
Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm (Baden-Baden) (1655–1707) |
François Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1664–1709) |
Louis III de Bourbon, prince de Condé (1668–1710) |
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| Great grandparents |
Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse (1678–1737) |
Francesco III. d'Este (1698–1780) |
Louis I. de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans (1703–1752) |
Louis Armand II. De Bourbon, prince de Conti (1695–1727) |
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| Grandparents |
Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre (1725–1793) |
Louis Philippe I de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans (1725–1785) |
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| parents |
Louis-Philippe II. Joseph de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans (1747–1793) |
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Antoine-Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier (1775–1807) |
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literature
- Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables . Volume XI, 1989, plate 156/157.
- Guy Antonetti: Louis-Philippe . Librairie Arthème Fayard, Paris 1994.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Montpensier, Antoine Philippe d'Orléans duc de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Montpensier, Louis Antoine Philippe d'Orléans de (full name); Orléans, Antoine Philippe d ' |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | younger brother of the last French king Louis-Philippe |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1807 |
| Place of death | Twickenham , England |