Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France (Prince ''Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d'Orléans''; 14 June 1933 – 21 January 2019), was the
Orléanist pretender to the defunct French throne as Henry VII.
He was head of the
House of Orléans
The 4th House of Orléans (french: Maison d'Orléans), sometimes called the House of Bourbon-Orléans (french: link=no, Maison de Bourbon-Orléans) to distinguish it, is the fourth holder of a surname previously used by several branches of the Ro ...
as senior in male-line descent from
Louis-Philippe I d'Orléans, who reigned as King of the French from 1830 to 1848. Henri was a retired military officer as well as an author and painter.
Early life
He was the first son of
Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999), and his wife
Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza
Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (Isabelle Marie Amélie Louise Victoire Thérèse Jeanne; 13 August 1911 – 5 July 2003) was a French-Brazilian memoirist and consort of the Orléanist pretender, Henri, Count of Paris.
Early life
Born ...
, and was born in
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
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, Belgium,
a law in 1886 having permanently
exiled from France the heads of its formerly reigning dynasties and their eldest sons.
Despite the ban, while living in Belgium Henri occasionally accompanied his mother on brief visits to France and, later, to his mother's relatives in Brazil.
[ In August 1940 as World War II escalated, the family relocated to property they owned in ]Larache
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in the French protectorate of Morocco
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. While his father sought to play a role in the French resistance
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, Henri, in 1940 a child of 7, remained at Larache with his mother, siblings, grandmother and father's sisters' families during the Nazi occupation of France, sharing a small desert home that lacked electricity. Advised by Henri Giraud
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's Moroccan command that the Orléans had become unwelcome in the protectorate following the assassination of Vichy regime
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collaborater François Darlan
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by the monarchist Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle
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, the family relocated to Pamplona
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in Spain until 1947, when they took up residence at the ''Quinta do Anjinho'', an estate near Sintra
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, on the Portuguese Riviera
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.[ During that year, President ]Vincent Auriol
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allowed Henri and his brother François to visit France, and in 1948 he was allowed to enroll in a '' lycée'' in Bordeaux
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.[
The law of exile was abrogated in 1950, allowing Henri to ]repatriate
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with his parents. Later that year, his parents purchased an estate near Paris, the ''Manoir du Cœur-Volant'' in Louveciennes
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, which became Henri's first home in France.[
Henri studied at the '']Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
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(Sciences Po)'', obtaining his ''bac
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'' in 1957, and on 30 June of that year, his father conferred upon him, as the heir apparent
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of his house, the title of "Count of Clermont",[ by which he was generally known during his father's lifetime.
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Career
From October 1959 to April 1962, Henri worked at the Secretariat-General for National Defence and Security as a member of the French Foreign Legion
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. Transferred from there to a garrison in Germany, he took up a new assignment as military instructor at Bonifacio in Corsica, where his wife and children joined him early in 1963.
Returning to civilian life in 1967, Henri and his family briefly occupied the ''Blanche Neige'' pavilion on the grounds of his father's ''Cœur-Volant'' estate before renting an apartment of their own in the '' 15th arrondissement'' of Paris. In the early 1970s Clermont managed public relations for the Geneva
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office of a Swiss investment firm while dwelling in Corly.
Henri wrote several books, including:
* ''À mes fils'' (1989)
* ''Adresse au futur chef d'État'' (1994)
* ''Désolé, Altesse, c’est mon jour de sortie'' (1994)
* ''La France survivra-t-elle à l'an 2000'' (1997)
* ''Le passeur de miroir'' (2000)
* ''La France à bout de bras'' (2002)
* ''L'histoire en héritage'' (2003)
* ''La Royauté de l'Homme'' (2016)
Henri was also a painter and launched his own brand of perfume. His political career included unsuccessfully contesting the 2004 European elections for the Alliance Royale, a monarchist party.
Marriages and children
Henri met Duchess Marie Therese of Württemberg
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(born 1934), like himself a descendant of King Louis-Philippe, at a ball given by the Thurn and Taxis
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family in Munich
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.[ They were married on 5 July 1957 at the Royal Chapel of Dreux, on which occasion President Charles de Gaulle publicly offered congratulations, calling the wedding a great national event and observing that the dynasty and couple's future were bound to the hopes of France.][ Five children were born from this union:][
# Princess Marie d'Orléans (born 3 January 1959 in ]Boulogne-sur-Seine
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) married civilly in Dreux, on 22 July 1989, and religiously in Friedrichshafen
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, on 29 July 1989, to Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein
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(born on 1 April 1949 in Vienna
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), and has issue:
## Princess Léopoldine of Liechtenstein (born 27 June 1990, Vienna)
## Princess Marie Immaculata of Liechtenstein (born 15 December 1991, Vienna)
## Prince Johann Wenzel of Liechtenstein (born 17 March 1993, Vienna)
## Princess Margarete of Liechtenstein (born 10 January 1995, Vienna)
## Prince Gabriel of Liechtenstein (born 6 May 1998, Vienna)
# Prince François, Count of Clermont (7 February 1961 in Boulogne-sur-Seine – 30 December 2017)
# Princess Blanche d'Orléans (born 10 September 1963 in Ravensburg).
# Prince Jean, Count of Paris (born 19 May 1965, Boulogne-sur-Seine), married civilly in Paris on 19 March 2009 with Maria Philomena Magdalena Juliana Johanna de Tornos y Steinhart, and religiously at the Senlis Cathedral
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on 2 May 2009. The couple has five children:
## Prince Gaston of Orléans (born 19 November 2009, Paris)
## Princess Antoinette d'Orléans (born 28 January 2012, Vienna)
## Princess Louise-Marguerite d'Orléans (born 30 July 2014, Poissy
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)
## Prince Joseph d'Orléans (born 2 June 2016)
## Princess Jacinthe d'Orléans (born 9 October 2018)
# Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême, (born 18 March 1968, Paris), married civilly in Dreux on 19 June 1999, and religiously in Antrain on 10 July 1999, to Marie-Liesse de Rohan-Chabot (born on 29 June 1969 in Paris), with whom he has two children.
## Princess Thérèse d'Orléans (born 23 April 2001, Cannes
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)
## Prince Pierre d'Orléans (born 6 August 2003, Cannes).
In 1984, Henri and Marie-Thérèse were divorced. On 31 October 1984 Henri entered a civil marriage
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with Micaëla Anna María Cousiño y Quiñones de León (1938-2022), daughter of Luis Cousiño y Sebire and his wife Antonia Maria Quiñones de Léon y Bañuelos, 4th Marquesa de San Carlos, and who had previously been divorced from Jean-Robert Bœuf. For remarrying without consent, Henri's father initially declared him disinherited, substituting the non-dynastic
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title '' Comte de Mortain'' for his son's Clermont countship (the latter once held in appanage
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by a son of Louis IX of France, who became ancestor of the Bourbon-Orléans line). Henri, though, refused all mail addressed to him as "Mortain". On 27 February 1984 Marie-Thérèse, the former Countess of Clermont, was granted the title '' Duchess of Montpensier'' by her father-in-law.
On 11 February 1989 Henri was informed, by a hand-delivered letter written by his former wife, of the engagement of their eldest child Marie
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, to Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein
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, a cousin of the ruler of that principality, the wedding date being set for 29 July 1989. Although Henri acknowledged, in a 12 May 1989 '' Point de Vue'' interview, that it had been three years since he had seen Marie, he and his second wife, Micaëla Cousiño, had been welcomed for the first time to the home of his mother, the Countess of Paris, that day: Henri further acknowledged to the press that, Marie having written to invite him to her wedding, he looked forward to conducting her to the altar, rumours to the contrary notwithstanding. At the engagement party held the next day at the Palais Pallavicini
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, the Vienna
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home of the fiancé's parents, photographs were taken, and would later be published, showing Henri speaking cordially with his daughter, sons, former wife and future son-in-law.
However, it was on this occasion that Henri learned that he would not be escorting Marie to her bridegroom during the wedding. Meanwhile, Marie-Thérèse had sent out invitations to the wedding in her name alone, omitting not only mention of Marie's father, but also of her grandfather, ''Monseigneur'' the Count of Paris who, until then, had largely sided with the Duchess of Montpensier in family matters and had consented to his granddaughter's choice of a spouse. This prompted father and son to join in calling for a familial boycott of the nuptials. Henri and his father refused to attend the wedding but Marie proceeded to marry civilly at Dreux's city hall on 22 July 1989, and religiously at the castle of her mother's brother in Germany, on 29 July 1989. All but two of Henri's eight siblings also boycotted the ceremonies, but his sister Diane (wife of Montpensier's brother) hosted, and Henri's mother, ''Madame'' the Countess of Paris, was a guest at the religious wedding.
Tensions lessened after several years, and on 7 March 1991 Henri's father reinstated him as heir apparent
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and Count of Clermont, simultaneously giving Micaëla the title "Princesse de Joinville".
In 1980, Henri joined the Grand Orient de France where he became Grand Master of the regular Masonic Lodge
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"Lys de France" No 1297. In 2001, he left Freemasonry to become the head of the House d'Orléans. In the first half of the 2000s, he covered also the charge of Great Official of the Grande Loge de Marque de France.
Head of house
Until he succeeded his father as royal claimant, Henri and his second wife occupied an apartment in Paris.[''Paris hunting down rent-skipping royal'', Chicago Sun-Times, 19 November 2000] On 19 June 1999, Henri's father died and he became the new head of the House of Orléans. He took the traditional title, Count of Paris
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, adding an ancient one, Duke of France, not borne by his Orléans or Bourbon forebears, but used a thousand years ago by his ancestors, before Hugh Capet
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took the title of king. His wife assumed the title "Duchess of France", deferring to the continued use of "Countess of Paris" by Henri's widowed mother until her death on 5 July 2003, whereupon Micaela assumed that title.
After his father's death, Henri annulled his father's decision to deprive his brothers Michel (Count of Évreux
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) and Thibaut (the late Count of La Marche
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) of their succession rights because Michel married a noblewoman without permission and because Thibaut married a commoner. He also bestowed titles upon the sons of his brother Prince Jacques, Duke of Orléans: Prince Charles-Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Chartres (born 1972), and Prince Foulques d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale and Count of Eu (born 1974).
Henri recognised his disabled eldest son François as his dynastic heir-apparent, with the title Count of Clermont, declaring that François would exercise his prerogatives as head of the dynasty under the "regency
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" of his younger brother Prince Jean, Duke of Vendôme. However, with François' death on 30 December 2017, Vendôme became the Orléanist heir-apparent.
In 2009, Henri obtained an annulment
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of his marriage to Marie-Thérèse of Württemberg from the Holy See
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. He remarried his second wife, Micaëla Cousiño, in the Catholic Church in September of that year.
As Count of Paris, Henri took part in some European royal events attending, for instance, the 2011 marriage of Albert II of Monaco.
Legal cases
Prior to succeeding his father as royal claimant, Henri launched an unsuccessful court case (1987–1989) in which he challenged the right of his rival cousin Louis-Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
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, to use the undifferenced royal arms of France
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and the Anjou title. The French courts dismissed the case on the grounds that Henri failed to prove that he had demonstrated a right to the hereditament In common law, a hereditament (from Latin ''hereditare'', to inherit, from ''heres'', heir) is any kind of property that can be inherited.
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s in questions, noting also that the court lacked jurisdiction in a dispute over dynastic
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claims of France's former royal family.
After his father's death, a court-appointed lawyer searched through the late count's effects on behalf of his nine living children, to reclaim what remained of the family's dissipated fortune. Jewels, art-work, and an exceptional medieval illustrated manuscript were found. These were auctioned off, raising approximately US$14 million.
In 2000 bailiffs pursued Henri for US$143,000 back rent after he fled the Villa Boileau, a 17th-century Paris house he had occupied.
Ancestors
Patrilineal descent
Henri was a member of the House of Bourbon-Orléans
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, a sub-branch of the House of Bourbon, itself a branch of the House of Capet
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and of the Robertians
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.
Henri's patriline
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traces his ancestry back to the Dukes of Orléans, the Kings of France, the Dukes and Counts of Vendôme, the Counts of La Marche, the first Duke of Bourbon, a Count of Clermont, and before them, again the Kings of France. The line extends back more than 1,200 years and is one of the oldest in Europe.
# Robert II of Worms and Rheingau, 770–807
#Robert III of Worms
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and Rheingau, 808–834
# Robert IV the Strong, 820–866
#Robert I of France
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, 866–923
#Hugh the Great
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, 895–956
#Hugh Capet
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, 941–996
#Robert II of France
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, 972–1031
#Henry I of France
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, 1008–1060
#Philip I of France
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, 1053–1108
# Louis VI of France, 1081–1137
# Louis VII of France, 1120–1180
#Philip II of France
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, 1165–1223
#Louis VIII of France
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, 1187–1226
# Louis IX of France, 1214–1270
#Robert, Count of Clermont
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, 1256–1317
#Louis I, Duke of Bourbon
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, c. 1280–1342
#James I, Count of La Marche
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, 1315–1362
#John I, Count of La Marche
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John was captured as a young ma ...
, 1344–1393
# Louis, Count of Vendôme, c. 1376–1446
#Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme
Jean may refer to:
People
* Jean (female given name)
* Jean (male given name)
* Jean (surname)
Fictional characters
* Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character
* Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations
* Jea ...
, 1428–1478
# François, Count of Vendôme, 1470–1495
#Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...
, 1489–1537
#Antoine of Navarre
Antoine de Bourbon, roi de Navarre (22 April 1518 – 17 November 1562) was the King of Navarre through his marriage ('' jure uxoris'') to Queen Jeanne III, from 1555 until his death. He was the first monarch of the House of Bourbon, of which he ...
, 1518–1562
#Henry IV of France
Henry IV (french: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch ...
, 1553–1610
#Louis XIII of France
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...
, 1601–1643
#Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
''Monsieur'' Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 – 9 June 1701), was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and his wife, Anne of Austria. His elder brother was the "Sun King", Louis XIV. Styled Duke of Anjou from bir ...
, 1640–1701
#Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (Philippe Charles; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723), was a French prince, soldier, and statesman who served as Regent of the Kingdom of France from 1715 to 1723. He is referred to in French as ''le Régent''. ...
, 1674–1723
#Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans Louis may refer to:
* Louis (coin)
* Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name
* Louis (surname)
* Louis (singer), Serbian singer
* HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy
See also
Derived or associated terms
* Lewis ( ...
, 1703–1752
#Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
Louis Philippe d'Orléans known as ''le Gros'' (''the Fat'') (12 May 1725 – 18 November 1785), was a French prince, a member of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, the royal dynasty that ruled France. The First Prince of the Blood aft ...
, 1725–1785
# Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, 1747–1793
#Louis Philippe I
Louis Philippe (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France.
As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary Wa ...
, King of the French, 1773–1850
#Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans
Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans (Ferdinand Philippe Louis Charles Henri Joseph; 3 September 1810 – 13 July 1842) was the eldest son of King Louis Philippe I of France and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. He was born in exile in his moth ...
, 1810–1842
#Robert, Duke of Chartres
Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (Robert Philippe Louis Eugène Ferdinand; 9 November 1840 – 5 December 1910), was the son of Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and thus grandson of King Louis-Philippe of France. He fought for the Unio ...
, 1840–1910
#Jean, Duke of Guise
Prince Jean of Orléans, Duke of Guise (Jean Pierre Clément Marie; 4 September 1874 – 25 August 1940), was the third son and youngest child of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840–1910), grandson of Prince Ferdinand Philippe and great- ...
, 1874–1940
# Henri, Count of Paris, 1908–1999
#Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France 1933–2019
Honours
* France:
** Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon B ...
(30 April 2008)
** Cross for Military Valour (8 May 1959)[Image](_blank)
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** Combatant Cross
** North Africa Security and Order Operations Commemorative Medal
* Protector of the Orléans Obedience of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem (12 September 2014, resign at Easter 2012)
* Montenegro, House of Montenegro: Grand-Cross with Gold Star of the Order of Prince Danilo I
The Order of Prince Danilo I ( cnr, Орден Књаза Данила I, translit=Orden Knjaza Danila I) was an order of the Principality and later Kingdom, of Montenegro. It is currently a dynastic order granted by the head of the House of Pet ...
(3 December 2005)
* Two Sicilies House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
The House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies is a cadet branch of the Spanish Bourbons that ruled Southern Italy and Sicily for more than a century in the 18th and 19th centuries. It descends from the Capetian dynasty in legitimate male line through Phili ...
: Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Justice of the Calabrian Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George
* House of Württemberg
The House of Württemberg is a German dynasty and former royal family from Württemberg.
History County
The House probably originated in the vicinity of the Salian dynasty. Around 1080 the ancestors of modern Württemberg, which was then calle ...
: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
See also
*List of French monarchs
France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions.
Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I () as the f ...
References
Bibliography
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External links
Official website of The Count of Paris
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1933 births
2019 deaths
People from Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Sciences Po alumni
Counts of Paris
Dukes of Montpensier
Counts of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis
French military personnel of the Algerian War
Orléanist pretenders to the French throne
Princes of France (Orléans)
Burials at the Chapelle royale de Dreux