Gaston d'Orléans, comte d'Eu

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Karl Ernest Papf: Gaston d'Orléans, comte d'Eu, oil on canvas, around 1885/1890

Prince Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston d'Orléans, comte d'Eu (born April 28, 1842 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , † August 28, 1922 at sea) was a prince from the House of Orléans and a Brazilian marshal .

Life

Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston d'Orléans was the eldest son of the Duke of Nemours and the Viennese Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld-Koháry (1822-1857), a grandson of the Citizen King Louis Philippe of France .

Karl Ernest Papf: Isabella and Gaston d'Orléans with their son, 1877

Gaston d'Orléans married Infanta Isabella of Brazil (1846-1921), the heir to the Emperor Pedro II of Brazil , on October 15, 1864 . Four children emerged from the mutual connection:

  • Stillborn daughter (* \ † July 28, 1874)
  • Pedro de Alcántara d'Orléans (1875–1940)
  • Luís d'Orléans (1878–1920)
  • António Gastão d'Orléans (1881-1918)

Soon after the marriage of the two, the Triple Alliance War broke out, which Brazil, together with Argentina and Uruguay, waged against the dictator of Paraguay, Francisco Solano López . As the emperor's son-in-law , Gaston d'Orléans strove for military command, but was initially passed over. Only in the final phase of the war, on February 20, 1869, was he appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Brazilian Army , and on March 22, 1869, he took over the command of the Allied forces. He proved to be a capable commander and brought the war to a victorious end by February 1870.

In 1889 he and his family fled to France after the fall of the emperor. The family lived here at Château d'Eu in Normandy . Shortly after the end of the First World War , he lost his youngest son, who was fatally injured in a plane crash. His second-born died in 1920 as a result of the wounds he had suffered during the war. Like his brother, he served as an officer in the British armed forces, Luíz in the British Army , while Antônio served as an air force pilot in the Royal Air Force . The following year, his wife died after 57 years of marriage. In 1922, the Comte d'Eu boarded the Massalia to take part in the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of Brazil's independence. The 80-year-old died on the way of the ship to Brazil.

Honors

The plant genus Orleanesia Barb. Rodr is named after him . from the orchid family .

  • Pedro de Alcântara (1875-1940)

  • Luís (1878-1920)

  • Antônio Gastão (1881-1918)

Web links

Commons : Gaston d'Orléans, comte d'Eu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Ralph Braun: The Brazilian Empire and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. In: Twenty years of international Johann Strauss encounters in Coburg. German Johann Strauss Society, Coburg 2007, p. 23 ( PDF ; 2.2 MB).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Leuchars: To the bitter end. Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance. Greenwood, Westport CT et al. 2002, ISBN 0-313-32365-8 , pp. 215ff. ( Contributions in military Studies 223).
  2. ↑ thepeerage.com: Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston d'Orléans, Comte d'Eu (English)
  3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Eu, Gaston d'Orléans, comte d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eu, Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston d'Orléans comte d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of the House of Orléans and Brazilian Marshal
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuilly-sur-Seine
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1922
Place of death at sea