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House of Bourbon-Parma The House of Bourbon-Parma ( it, Casa di Borbone di Parma) is a cadet branch of the Spanish royal family, whose members once ruled as King of Etruria and as Duke of Parma and Piacenza, Guastalla, and Lucca. The House descended from the Fren ...

, spouse = Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães ''Infante'' (, ; f. ''infanta''), also anglicised as Infant or translated as Prince, is the title and rank given in the Iberian kingdoms of Spain (including the predecessor kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, Navarre, and León) and Portugal to th ...

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Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois (21 September 1819 – 1 February 1864) was a duchess and later a regent of Parma. She was the eldest daughter of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, younger son of King Charles X of France and Princess Caroline o ...

Prince Henry of

Bourbon-Parma The House of Bourbon-Parma ( it, Casa di Borbone di Parma) is a cadet branch of the Spanish royal family, whose members once ruled as King of Etruria and as Duke of Parma and Piacenza, Guastalla, and Lucca. The House descended from the French C ...

, Count of Bardi ( it, Enrico Carlo Luigi Giorgio, Principe di Parma, Conte di Bardi) (12 February 1851 in

, Duchy of Parma – 14 April 1905 in

) was the youngest son and child of Charles III, Duke of Parma and his wife

, the eldest daughter of

Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Duke of Berry (24 January 1778 – 14 February 1820) was the third child and younger son of Charles X, King of France, (whom he predeceased) by his wife Maria Theresa of Savoy. In June 1832, two years after the overthro ...

and Princess Caroline Ferdinande Louise of the Two Sicilies. Henry was thus a great-grandson of Charles X of France. Henry was a nephew of Henri, comte de Chambord, disputedly King of France and Navarre from 2 to 9 August 1830 and afterwards the

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to the throne of France from 1844 to 1883.

Marriages

Henry married firstly to Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, youngest daughter of

Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies Ferdinand II ( it, Ferdinando Carlo; scn, Ferdinannu Carlu; nap, Ferdinando Carlo; 12 January 1810 – 22 May 1859) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1830 until his death in 1859. Family Ferdinand was born in Palermo to King Francis I of the T ...

and his wife

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, on 25 November 1873 in

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. Maria Luisa died three months later at the age of 19. The couple had no issue. Henry married secondly to Infanta Adelgundes of Portugal, Duchess of Guimarães, fifth child and fourth daughter of Miguel of Portugal and his wife Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg on 15 October 1876 in

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. This union was also without issue; Adelgundes' nine pregnancies all ended in miscarriages.

Residences

Henry and Adelgundes were the owners of the palazzo

Ca' Vendramin Calergi Ca' Loredan Vendramin Calergi is a 15th-century palace on the Grand Canal in the ''sestiere'' (quarter) of Cannaregio in Venice, northern Italy. It was commissioned by the patrician Loredan dynasty, namely Andrea Loredan, and paid for by Doge Le ...

on the Grand Canal in

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. They hosted the family of Richard Wagner at their palazzo beginning in September 1882, and the famous German composer died there the following February.Ca' Vendramin Calergi: ''La storia''
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Ancestry

References

Princes of Bourbon-Parma 1851 births 1905 deaths House of Bourbon-Parma Nobility from Parma Counts of Bardi Sons of monarchs {{Italy-noble-stub