Prince Xavier of Parma
| Prince Xavier | |||||
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| Duke of Bourbon-Parma | |||||
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| Head of the House of Bourbon-Parma | |||||
| Period | 15 November 1974 – 7 May 1977 | ||||
| Predecessor | Duke Robert | ||||
| Successor | Duke Carlos Hugo | ||||
| Born |
25 May 1889 Camaiore, Kingdom of Italy |
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| Died | 7 May 1977 (aged 87) Zizers, Switzerland |
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| Burial | Solesmes Abbey | ||||
| Spouse |
Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset (m. 1927 - 1977; his death) |
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| Issue | Princess Maria Francisca, Dowager Princess of Lobkowicz Prince Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma Princess Maria Teresa Princess Cecilia Maria Princess Marie des Neiges Prince Sixtus Henry |
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| House | Bourbon-Parma | ||||
| Father | Robert I, Duke of Parma | ||||
| Mother | Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
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| Francis Xavier Charles Maria |
Xavier, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, in France known before 1974 as Prince Xavier de Bourbon-Parme, in Spain known as Francisco Javier de Borbón-Parma y de Braganza or simply as Don Javier (25 May 1889 – 7 May 1977) was the head of the ducal House of Bourbon-Parma. He is best known as dynastic leader of Carlism and the Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain, since 1936 as a regent-claimant and since 1952 as a claimant, appearing under the name Javier I. Since 1974 he was pretender to the defunct throne of Parma. He is also recognized as involved in the so-called Sixtus Affair of 1916-1917 and the so-called Halifax-Chevalier talks of 1940.
Xavier was born to a highly aristocratic Bourbon-Parma family; in the mid-18th century the branch emerged from the Spanish Bourbons, who in turn emerged from the French Bourbons few decades earlier. Along the patriline Xavier was descendant to the king of France Louis XIV and to the king of Spain Felipe V. Among his great-great-grandparents, Louis I was the king of Etruria, Vittorio Emanuele I was the king of Sardinia and the duke of Savoy, Charles X was the king of France, Francisco I was the king of Two Sicilies, Pedro III was the king of Portugal, Maria I was the queen of Portugal and Brazil, and Carlos IV was the king of Spain; among his great-grandparents, Charles II was the duke of Parma and João VI was the king of Portugal; among his grandparents, Charles III was the duke of Parma and Miguel I was the king of Portugal. Xavier’s father, Robert (1848-1907) was the last ruling duke of Parma, and Xavier’s mother, Maria Antonia de Braganza (1862-1959), was exile-born daughter of the 1834-deposed king of Portugal.
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