Jaime de Borbón (1908-1975)

Infante Jaime de Borbón (1908-1975)

Jaime de Borbón y Battenberg , full name Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria de Borbón y Battenberg (born June 23, 1908 in Segovia , Spain , † March 20, 1975 in St. Gallen , Switzerland ) was Duke of Segovia, later Duke of Anjou and Segovia.

Life

Jaime was the second son of the Spanish King Alfonso XIII. (1886–1941) and his wife Princess Victoria Eugénie von Battenberg (1887–1969), 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 .

On March 4, 1935 married Jaime in Rome , the French Princess Victoire Jeanne Joséphine Pierre Marie Emmanuelle de Dampierre (1913-2012), daughter of Roger de Dampierre (1892-1975), second Duke de San Lorenzo and his wife Princess Vittoria Ruspoli ( 1892-1982). The marriage had two sons:

• Alfons Jaime Marcelino Manuel Victor Maria (1936–1989), Duke of Anjou and Cádiz

Jaime, Duke of Anjou and Segovia (Portrait of Philip Alexius de László , 1927)

⚭ 1972–1982, canceled 1986 Doña Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu y Franco (* 1950), a granddaughter of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco

• Gonzalo Victor Alfonso José Bonifacio Antonio Maria y Todos los Santos (1937–2000), Duke of Aquitaine

⚭ 1983–1983 Doña Maria del Carmen Harto y Montealegre (* 1947)

⚭ 1984–1989 Doña Maria de las Mercedes Licer y García (* 1963)

⚭ 1992–2000 Doña Emanuela Maria Pratolongo (* 1960)

The marriage with Princess Emanuela was divorced in Bucharest in 1947 ; however, the marriage persisted in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church and the French Legitimists . On August 3, 1949, Jaime married the East Prussian singer Charlotte Auguste Luise Thiedemann (1919–1979) in Innsbruck, their second marriage.

Family coat of arms of the Spanish royal family Borbón

Don Jaime was deaf from birth. At that time a deaf king on the throne of Spain was unthinkable; In 1933 he gave a declaration of renunciation of the Spanish succession to the throne by persuading the throne and got the title of Duke of Segovia. In 1941 the Legitimists proclaimed him the rightful heir to the throne of France and head of the French line of the House of Bourbon . From 1957 he signed all documents with Jacques II. Henri .

On December 6, 1949, he withdrew his resignation from the Spanish throne. In 1964 he assumed the title of Duke of Madrid and was viewed by the Carlist as a counter-pretender to Prince Francis Xavier of Bourbon-Parma , Duke of Molina. On July 19, 1969, Don Jaime finally renounced the Spanish crown in favor of his nephew, the future King of Spain Juan Carlos I.

Don Jaime died on March 20, 1975 in St. Gallen and was buried in the Saint-Denis basilica ; In 1985 his body was transferred to Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial and is currently resting in the pudridero of the Pantheon of the Infants . It is a publicly inaccessible room in which the corpses can rot before they are finally placed in the pantheon of the Infants after about fifty years.

Titles in different phases of life

• 1908–1975 Infant of Spain
• 1933–1975 Duke of Segovia
• 1941–1975 Duke of Anjou ( pretender to the French throne as Jacques II. Henri )
• 1964–1975 Duke of Madrid (pretender to the Spanish throne as Jaime IV )
• Bearer of the Order of the Golden Fleece

literature

• José M. Zavala: Don Jaime, el trágico Borbón: la maldición del hijo sordomudo de Alfonso XIII. La Esfera de los Libros, Madrid 2006, ISBN 84-9734-565-7 .
• Begoña Aranguren: Emanuela de Dampierre: memorias, esposa y madre de los Borbones que pudieron reinar en España. Esfera de los Libros, Madrid 2003, ISBN 84-9734-141-4 .
• German deaf newspaper, born 1962, May 20, year 13, Germany

predecessor	Office	successor
King Alfonso XIII from Spain	Head of the House of Bourbon, legitimist pretender to the throne of France 1941–1975	Alfons Jaime de Borbon