Sixto of Bourbon-Parma

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Sixto of Bourbon-Parma.

Sixtus Henri (V.) de Borbón-Parma y Borbón-Busset , full name Sixtus Henri Hugues François Xavier de Borbón-Parma y Borbón-Busset (born July 22, 1940 in Pau , France ) is a member of the House of Bourbon-Parma and Duke of Aranjuez and Carlist counter-pretender .

Life

Sixtus Henri is the second son of Franz Xavier de Borbón-Parma y de Bragança (1889–1977) and his wife Princess Marie Madeleine von Bourbon-Busset (1898–1984), daughter of Count Georges de Lignières and Jeanne de Kerret. His paternal grandparents were Duke Robert I of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla and his second wife Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal .

Sixtus Henri studied classical and modern languages , law and a few semesters of natural sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid . In 1965 he joined the Legión Española and served in the Tercio "Gran Capitán" 1º de la Legión in Melilla .

Political life, Second Carlist dynasty

Carlist after 1975

On April 8, 1975, before Franco's death, his father renounced his claim to the Spanish throne in favor of Sixto's older brother Carlos Hugo . This had created in 1971 a far-leftist carlistische grouping into being that from 1971 the name Partido Carlista led (PC) and a political reorientation a federalist-autonomist on the Carlist People's Congress from 1972 socialist struck course which both the Second Vatican Council influenced was as well as elements of liberation theology . Central elements were company self-determination and a state federalism with autonomous regions. In contrast to before, however, this should be expressly enforced within the framework of a pluralistic system. At the time of Franco's death in 1975, the Partido Carlista, legalized in 1977, was a far left-wing organization that helped found the Izquierda Unida (United Left).

All of this led to an irreparable split in the Carlist movement, which has been conservative Catholic since its origins . The leaders of the Carlist movement called on Carlos Hugo to speak out for their traditionalist line. When he did not respond, they declared that he had lost his right to leadership. Carlos Hugo protested, however, against having waived any right. The movement now officially split into the “Partido Carlista” of Carlos Hugos and various traditionalist groups, which in 1986 united under Sixtus Henri to form the far right-wing “Comunión Tradicionalista Carlista” (CTC). Immediately after Franco's death, both Carlist groups were so hostile to each other that traditionalist Carlist under Sixtus Henri, who were allegedly supported by circles close to them, bombed a PC meeting on Montejurra in 1976, which resulted in two deaths Have been linked.

Sixtus Henri de Borbón-Parma claimed the leadership of the Carlist movement and claimed to be the legitimate pretender. Both brothers cited their father, who died on May 7, 1977. The background is unclear. In a manifesto of March 4, 1977, the father (allegedly at Sixtus' urging) condemned Carlos Hugo's increasingly left-wing politics, while a paper written three days later by Carlos Hugo, after he had brought his father out of the hospital, also as heir in With regard to the Spanish claim to the throne. In any case, the mother of both pretenders stood by Sixtus Henri and went so far as to exclude Carlos Hugo from her own funeral in 1984.

Next life

Don Sixtus was present when Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated four priests as bishops in Ecône on June 30, 1988, against the express will of Pope John Paul II . Thereupon Lefebvre was excommunicated together with the four newly ordained by the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei of July 2, 1988 . The priests belonged to the Society of St. Pius X. on. In the French presidential elections of 1988 Sixtus Henri supported the candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen from the right-wing extremist Front National party .

On the death of his brother Carlos Hugo on August 18, 2010, Don Sixto had his secretariat publish a declaration of condolences, the wording of which shows not only the deep rift between the two brothers, but also the conservative attitude towards Hugo Carlos' sons. In this open letter he declared the marriage of the heir Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Parma to be morganatic .

Titles, orders and honors

title

  • 1940 –.... Prince of Parma and Piacenza
  • 1940 - Infant of Spain
  • 1964 - Duke of Aranjuez
  • 1977 –.... Carlist counter-pretender as Sixto I. Enrique

medal

Web links

literature

  • Elias Franciscode Tejada: EI monarquia tradicional , Madrid.
  • Herrero Galindo: Breve historia del Tradicionalismo Espanol , Madrid (1956)
  • Evaristo Casarlego: La verdad des Tradiclonalismo , Madrid

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Partido Carlista (span.) ( Memento from September 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Participation of Sixto de Borbón at the funeral of his father after a suspected investigation, June 26, 1977 (Spanish) accessed on April 12, 2011
  3. ↑ Codex of Canon Law, Canon 1382
  4. ↑ Nota de la Secretaría Política de SAR Don Sixto Enrique de Borbón: Ante la muerte de Carlos Hugo de Borbón Parma, August 18, 2010 ( memento of July 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 12, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bourbon-Parma, Sixto of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borbón-Parma y Borbón-Busset, Sixtus Henri Hugues François Xavier de (full name); Bourbon-Parma y Borbón-Busset, Sixtus I. Henri de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish nobleman, member of the House of Bourbon-Parma and Duke of Aranjuez; and Carlist counter-pretender
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Pau