Prince Emmanuel of Orléans, Duke of Vendôme (Philippe Emmanuel Maximilien Marie Eudes; 18 January 1872 – 1 February 1931) was a French royal from the

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Early life

Emmanuel was born in Obermais,

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on 18 January 1872. He was the second child and only son of Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Alençon and his wife

Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria Duchess Sophie Charlotte Auguste in Bavaria (22 February 1847 – 4 May 1897) was a granddaughter-in-law of King Louis Philippe of France, the youngest sister of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and fiancée of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. L ...

.de Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery. Paris. 2002. pp. 474–476 (French) His mother was the famed ''duchesse d'Alençon'' who died in a fire at a charity bazaar in Paris on 4 May 1897. His older sister, Louise d'Orléans, married

Prince Alfons of Bavaria Prince Alfons of Bavaria (; 24 January 1862 – 8 January 1933) was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and a General, General of Cavalry. Early life and family Alfons was born in Munich, Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free ...

. His paternal grandparents were

Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours Prince Louis of Orléans, Duke of Nemours (Louis Charles Philippe Raphaël d'Orléans; 25 October 1814 – 26 June 1896) was the second son of King Louis-Philippe I of France, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. Life Childho ...

(son of

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and King Louis Philippe, who was forced to abdicate after the outbreak of the

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) and

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Victoria Franziska Antonia Juliane Luise); 14 February 1822 – 10 November 1857) was the daughter of Ferdinand, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, and Princess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábr� ...

(a first cousin of

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). His maternal grandparents were

Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (4 December 1808 – 15 November 1888), known informally as Max in Bayern, was a member of a Duke in Bavaria, junior branch of the royal House of Wittelsbach who were Kings of Bavaria, and a promoter of Bavarian f ...

and

Princess Ludovika of Bavaria Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (Marie Ludovika Wilhelmine; ''Mary Louise Wilhelmina''; 30 August 1808 – 25 January 1892) was the fifth child of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife Caroline of Baden. She was the mother of Empress ...

Career

The Duke was a Major in the

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, however, he was not allowed to serve in

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due to an 1886 law barring all princes of the two former sovereign houses of France from being permitted serving their county in the

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or hold office in the

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. The Prince, undeterred, volunteered with the French Red Cross, was appointed a principal delegate on the Belgian front and served as a director of the Franco-Belgian Hospital in Calais. In 1926, he led an excavation party that unearthed the village of

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, in the

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department, where several Roman tombs were found containing rare jewels, vases and

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Personal life

On 12 February 1896, he married

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(1870–1948) in

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. Henriette was the daughter of

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and

Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Princess Marie Luise Alexandra Karoline of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (17 November 1845 – 26 November 1912), later Countess of Flanders, was a princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern. She married Prince Philippe, Count ...

, and the sister of King

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. Together, they were known as the Sporting Duke and Duchess, and had four children: * Princess Marie-Louise (31 December 1896 – 8 March 1973), who married Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1885–1949) on 15 January 1916. Before their marriage was annulled in 1926, they had children together. * Princess Sophie (19 October 1898 – 9 October 1928), who died unmarried in

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in 1928. In 1921, she was rumored to have been engaged to the Crown Prince and Regent of Serbia. * Princess Geneviève (21 September 1901 – 22 August 1983), who married Antoine, Marquis de Chaponay (1893–1956) in Neuilly, France, on 2 July 1923. Antoine, a widower of Diane de Cossé Brissac, and Geneviève had children together. * Prince Charles-Philippe (4 April 1905 – 10 March 1970),

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, who married non-dynastically Marguerite Watson (1899–1993), daughter of Garrett Fitzgerald Watson of

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, in Paris on 24 September 1928, without issue. The couple had estates in Belgium, France and Switzerland until after

, when their fortune diminished rapidly and they were forced to sell some properties. Philippe died unexpectedly on 1 February 1931 from heart failure after catching a cold in

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, France. He is buried in the Chapelle Royale de Saint Louis, in

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. His widow, Henriette Marie of Belgium, died aged 77 on 28 March 1948 in

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Honours

* Kingdom of Bavaria: Knight of the

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, ''1892'' * Spain: Knight of the

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, ''29 January 1914'' * Monaco: Grand Cross of the

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, ''19 June 1923''Journal de Monaco
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Ancestry

References

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