Felix of Bourbon-Parma

Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma

The family coat of arms of the House of Bourbon-Parma corresponds to that of the House of Bourbon-Anjou , but with eight silver scallops on the red border. Today it is the heart shield in the great coat of arms of Prince Felix's grandson, the ruling Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg .

Felix Prince of Bourbon-Parma (born September 28, 1893 in Schwarzau , † April 8, 1970 at Fischbach Castle ) came from the noble family of the Dukes of Bourbon-Parma and became Prince Consort of Luxembourg through his marriage .

Life

Felix von Bourbon-Parma was the son of the last Duke of Parma , Robert I (1848–1907) and his second wife Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862–1959). He was the brother of Zita , the last Austrian empress and Hungarian queen .

While his brothers Sixtus and Xaver served as Belgian officers during the World War , Prince Felix joined the Austrian Dragoon Regiment No. 15 as a war volunteer in the autumn of 1914 , in which he then advanced up to first lieutenant . He was mentioned a lot in November 1917 when he saved his brother-in-law, Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary , from drowning in the Isonzo .

During the war in October 1918, he became engaged to the future Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg , the next oldest sister of Grand Duchess Maria-Adelheid of Luxembourg, born on January 23, 1896 .

Prince Felix married the Grand Duchess, who was his cousin, on November 6, 1919 in the Cathedral of Luxembourg . The couple had six children:

• Jean (1921–2019), ⚭ Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium
• Élisabeth (1922–2011), ⚭ Franz Ferdinand Hohenberg (son of Maximilian Hohenberg , grandson of Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este)
• Maria Adelaide (1924–2007), ⚭ 1958 with Carl Joseph Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck
• Marie Gabrielle (* 1925), ⚭ Knud Graf von Holstein-Ledreborg
• Charles (1927–1977), ⚭ Joan Douglas-Dillon, daughter of C. Douglas Dillon , [1]
• Alix (1929–2019), ⚭ Prince Antoine von Ligne

Felix was accepted into the Nassau House Order of the Golden Lion on October 27, 1919, shortly before his marriage to Charlotte . From 1922 to 1969 he was President of the Luxembourg Red Cross Society .

literature

• Pierre Even : Luxembourg-Nassau dynasty: from the Counts of Nassau to the Grand Dukes of Luxembourg: a nine-hundred-year history of rulers in one hundred biographies. Schortgen publishing house. Luxembourg 2000.
• Felix Prinz von Luxemburg , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 51/1970 of December 7, 1970, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

• Prince Felix of Parma as a young man
• The Grand Ducal Couple, Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Consort Felix of Luxembourg
• Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Prince of Luxembourg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Felix Prinz von Luxemburg , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 51/1970 of December 7, 1970, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on April 14, 2011 ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
2. ↑ Jean Schoos : The medals and decorations of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the former Duchy of Nassau in the past and present. Publishing house of Sankt-Paulus Druckerei AG. Luxembourg 1990. ISBN 2-87963-048-7 . P. 197.

predecessor	Office	Successor
Maria Anna of Portugal	Prince Consort of Luxembourg 1919–1964	Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium