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Prince ''Louis'' Maria of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Trani (1 August 1838,

– 8 June 1886,

) was the eldest son of

and his second wife Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria.

Heir to the throne

Louis was a younger half-brother of

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. He was second-in-line to the throne of the

since the time of his birth. Their father died on 22 May 1859. Francis became King but had no children yet from his wife Maria Sophie of Bavaria. Louis became his

heir presumptive An heir presumptive is the person entitled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir apparent or a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question. ...

. However the Two Sicilies were conquered by the Expedition of the Thousand under

Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( , ;In his native Ligurian language, he is known as ''Gioxeppe Gaibado''. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as ''Jousé'' or ''Josep''. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, pa ...

in 1861. Garibaldi served the

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which was in the process of

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. Louis was still the heir of Francis as head of a deposed royal house. He retained this position for the rest of his life but predeceased Francis. Francis was eventually succeeded by their younger brother

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Marriage

On 5 June 1861, Louis married Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, the fourth daughter of

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and

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. Two of Mathilde's sisters were

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, married to the Emperor of Austria, and Marie Sophie of Bavaria, wife of Louis's older half-brother

. The marriage was unsuccessful almost from the start, and while Louis took refuge in alcohol, Mathilde spent most of her life traveling from place to place, often accompanied by her sisters. Louis and Mathilde had a single daughter: *

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(15 January 1867,

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- 1 May 1909,

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). Louis had one illegitimate son, Charles of Duzzio (1869-1931). Princess Maria Teresa married Prince Wilhelm of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen on 27 June 1889 and later became the Princess of Hohenzollern when her father-in-law died in 1905. She had two sons and a daughter.

Death

Louis died of heart disease in

on 8 June 1886."Obituary", ''The Times'' (14 June 1886): 7.

Ancestry

Sources

*"The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy" by C. Arnold McNaughton.

External links

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