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François de Paule de Bourbon (In Espagnol: Francisco de Paula de Borbón y Castellví), of Son Pro -PREPRE Chef «Duke of Anjou”, East François Marie Trinité Henri Edme Bonaventure de Bourbon the in Toulouse, France, and died on in Madrid, Spain. Germain cousin of King Alphonse XII of Spain, he is an aristocrat, a soldier and a Spanish parliamentarian; He is also a legitimist pretender to the throne of France.

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Le Prince François est le troisième Fils de l’en Infant Henri de Bourbon (1823-1870), Duc de Séville, et de Son Épouse «Inégle» Elena María de Castellví and Shelly, Elle-Même Fille de Don Antonio de Castellví, Comte de Castellá, ET by Doña Margarita Shelly.

The , the prince marries, in Havana, the Cuban commoner Maria Luisa de la Torre. From this marriage are born five children:

  • Hélène de Bourbon (1878-1936), Qui Épouse José de Oltra y Fullana;
  • Marie-Louise de Bourbon (1880-1968), who joined Diego Gonzalez-Conde and Garcia de la Cuesta, Marquis de Villamantilla de Perales;
  • François de Paule de Bourbon (1882-1952), Duke Consort de Seville, who married his cousin the princess Henriette de Bourbon, Duchess of Seville;
  • Joseph-Marie de Bourbon (is) (1883-1962), who united with Marie-Louise Rich y Carbajo (murdered by her husband [ first ] in 1926).

Hence seven children:

  1. Joseph-Louis (1910-1936), married to Marie de Salsas y Puig (1912-1962)
  2. Marie-Louise (1911-1930)
  3. Ferdinand (1913-1914)
  4. Charles (1915-1978), married to Milagros de Oro y Fernández de Cevallos (1916-1993), hence:
    1. Charles-Joseph (born in 1940)
    2. Milagros (born in 1941), married to Juan Ignacio López y Pérez (born in 1931), divorced
  5. Albert-Joseph (1916-1997), naturalized French in 1970, married to Marie Campos y Guerra (1920-2016), naturalized French in 1970, hence:
    1. Henri (1948-2005)
    2. Béatrice (1949-2008), naturalized French in 1970, married to Jean-Bernard Venturini (1944-2010), then divorced and remarried civilly
    3. Marie-Louise (born in 1951), naturalized French in 1970, married civilly twice
    4. Jean-Charles (1953-1953)
    5. recognized natural child: François Joubert (born in 1933), hence posterity
  6. Béatrice (1918-2000), married to Juan Ricoy y de Pereira (1908-1964)
  7. Alvare (1922-2000), married to Carmen Cruz y Villen (born in 1930), hence:
    1. Milagros (born in 1962), married to Manuel Molina y Muñoz (born in 1959)
    2. Carmen (Née in 1962), Mariée à Gustavo Adolfo Porras and Chavarino (Né in 1965)
  • Maria de los Dolores de Bourbon (1887-1985).

Having become a widower, the prince married in second marriage on February 15, 1890, in Madrid, the Cuban aristocrat Felisa de León y Navarro de Balboa, Marquise de Balboa. From this second marriage are born three children:

  • Henri de Bourbon (1891-1936), Marquis de Balboa, who marries Isabel de Esteban y de Iranzo, countess of Esteban;
  • Alphonse de Bourbon (1893-1936), Marquis de Squilache, who joined Marie-Louise de Caralt and Mas (1898-1981)

Hence two children:

  1. Alphonse (1926-2018), Marquis de Squilache, married to Marie-Thérèse de Rojas y Roca de Togores (born in 1929), hence:
    1. Marie-Ananciade (Née in 1958), Marquise de Squilache, Mariée à Ramón de la Cierva and García-Bermúdez (Né in 1956)
    2. Anne (1960-2011), Marquise de Beniel, married to Daniel Tobár y Rojas (born in 1950)
    3. Letizia (born in 1962), Marquise de Balboa, married to Antonio de Benavides y González-Rivera (born in 1953)
  2. Louis-Alphonse (1927-1952)
  • Maria de Las Nieves de Bourbon (1898-1989), who married Luís de Figueroa y Alonso-Martinez, eldest son of the Count of Romanones.

A carnist youth [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Coming from a Catholic marriage but “unequal” (marriage nevertheless blessed by Pope Pius IX), Prince François was born in France, where his parents found refuge shortly after their marriage (his father having been fallen from his title D ‘infant by the queen in 1848). The prince receives at his birth, then at his baptism in France, the name of Bourbon, but this name will initially be refused in Spain, where he receives the The name Castellví (the name of his mother), which he will wear for six years. A royal order of Alphonse XII finally gives him the name of Bourbon him .

Raised in resentment against her aunt, Queen Isabelle II of Spain, who has never recognized the marriage of her parents, the prince joins, in adolescence, the supporters of the “Duke of Madrid”, competitor of Isabelle For the throne of Spain. In the early 1870s, Prince François thus participated in the third carnist conflict which fails to place “Charles VII” on the throne of Spain. In 1875, however, François abandoned the Carlist camp to join his Germain cousin, the young Alphonse XII of Spain.

Service in Cuba [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Shortly after taking oath of allegiance to his cousin, François was appointed brigadier general to Cuba, who is then one of the last Spanish possessions in America. Posted in Havana, the prince meets the daughter of a rich Cuban planter, María Luisa de la Torre y Bassave, whom he wasted no time in love. Finally, the two young people married Havana on September 15, 1882 and settled in Madrid, shortly after.

Having become a widower in 1887, the prince remarried in 1890 to another Cuban, Felisa de León y Navarro de Balboa.

Pretender legitimist [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

After death without male descendants of his older brother the Duke of Seville, Prince François proclaims himself heir to the throne of France and claims [ 2 ] For him the legitimist succession in 1894. He was supported by certain legitimists disappointed by the “Duke of Madrid”, who devoted himself more to Spanish Carlism than to French legitimism.

In 1897, he brought a lawsuit against Philippe d’Orléans (the Orleanist pretender) to the Seine court to make him ban the port of the full weapons of France. The court dismisses it [ 3 ] From his request to be recognized as “the only right to wear the coat of arms full of azure with three golden lily flowers” [ 4 ] – The full weapons of France -, a right which returns at the time to the “Duke” and to the “Duchess of Madrid” [ 5 ] , to the five children [ 5 ] of the “Duke”, and to the mother of the “Duke”, the “Countess de Montizón” [ 5 ] (Widow of the previous head of the Bourbon house). The “Duke of Madrid” intervenes late [ 3 ] , [ 6 ] in this trial to assert its rights, by a dissertation [ 3 ] , [ 6 ] tabled by his lawyer, M It is River. The court does not have time to examine the arguments of the legitimist pretender, and dismisses [ 6 ] His cousin from Germain, Prince François de Bourbon, on the grounds that the weapons of France have, according to the court, been abolished with royalty [ 6 ] (He will be judged quite differently in 1988 and 1989) and that in addition, Prince François is not the eldest of the family (“the Duke of Madrid the premium in the collateral order” [ 4 ] , underlines the court). According to the historian of law Guy Augé, if François de Bourbon “lost his trial, […] the moral winner seemed to be much less the Duke of Orleans than Don Carlos” [ 2 ] (that is, the “Duke of Madrid”).

A brilliant career [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Prince François was promoted to the rank of general of division in 1892. Four years later, he became a deputy for the cortes, where he represents the city of Barcelona.

In 1914, the prince was appointed by Alphonse XIII of Spain Governor General of the Balearic Islands. Replaced in this position in 1916, he became a member of the Council of War and the Navy.

Finally, in 1927, the prince obtained the golden fleece from his cousin.

An end of life marked by civil war [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Despite the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931, Prince François was authorized to stay in Spain. He therefore continues to live in Madrid, where many of his children and grandchildren are also installed.

The bursting of the civil war in 1936, however, deeply turned the life of the prince and his family. From the first months of the conflict, several of her children (Hélène, Henri and Alphonse de Bourbon) and grandchildren (Joseph-Louis and Jacques de Bourbon as well as María Luisa Gonzále-Londe) are then shot by Les Républicains. In this very difficult context and while Madrid is soon surrounded by nationalist forces, the prince must find refuge at the Chilean Embassy with his wife.

Finally, the fall of the Spanish capital in March 1939 saved the prince, who died of old age in 1942.

  1. ↑ https://www.elespanol.com/reportajes/grandes-historias/2017210/192731390_0.html
  2. ↑ a et b Guy Augé, The Whites of Spain: Contribution to the study of a component of contemporary French royalism. (Polygr., Faculty of Law of Paris, 1967), Paris, Association of Friends of Guy Augé, Legitimacy, coll. “Notebook of the Association of Friends of Guy Augé, Legitimacy” ( n O 33: 1994 – 2), , 167 p. (ISSN  0153-2243 ) , part 2, chap.  I, p. 129-130 .
  3. ↑ A B and C Daniel Hamiche, «  Dynastic incongruity: “Seveil Schism” », Fidelis , n O 3, “On the house of Bourbon”, , p. 12-19 (ISSN  1150-5141 ) .
  4. ↑ a et b (in) (fr) Lawsuit Broucht by Francisco Maria de Borbon and Castellvi Against The Duc d’On Orléans (1897) On the François Velde website
  5. ↑ A B and C The wife of the chief of the house of Bourbon Porte “Be leaving France and its own weapons, or two crowns by side, France for her husband and his own” . The couple’s girls wear “The weapons of France in diamond” , and the eldest son of the couple Porte de France but only in districts 1 and 4 of his shield (with the arms of the Dauphiné de Viennois in districts 2 and 3). The other sons are not entitled to the full weapons of France. ( Present state of the house of Bourbon: to serve as a result of the Royal almanac from 1830 and other official publications of the house , 5 It is Edition (2012), p. 7)
  6. ↑ A B C and D Hervé Pinoteau, The weapons of the Elder of Capetians: a French heraldic point , Paris, Diffusion University-Culture (D.U.C.), , 78 p. (BNF  36599026 ) , p. 27-29, 68-71 .

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Bibliography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

  • The descendants of S.A.R. Don Henri de Bourbon and Bourbon, infant from Spain, Duke of Seville ( pref. and notes: Christian Papet-Vauban), Paris, Communication & Tradition, coll. “Bourbons archives”, , 2 It is ed. ( first re ed. 1936), 32 p. (ISBN  2-911029-05-4 , ISSN  1264-4021 , BNF  35820824 ) .
  • Christian Papet Vauban, «  The Dukes of Seville », Bourbons Magazine , Paris, Communication & Tradition, n O 7, , p. 10-12 (ISSN  1273-327X ) .

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