Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier

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Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Antoine, Duke of Montpensier (Antoine Marie Philippe Louis d'Orléans; 31 July 1824Template:Spaced ndash4 February 1890[1]), was a member of the French royal family in the House of Orléans. He was the youngest son of King Louis Philippe of France and his wife Maria Amelia Teresa of the Two Sicilies. He was styled as the Duke of Montpensier. He was born on 31 July 1824 at the château de Neuilly and died 4 February 1890 at Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain.

Marriage and issue

Template:Further information On 10 October 1846 at Madrid, Spain, he married Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, the daughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain and Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies.

They had ten children:

  1. Maria Isabel (21 September 1848 – 23 April 1919), who married her first cousin Philippe, comte de Paris (1838–94), the French claimant, and became known as Marie Isabelle, comtesse de Paris. She had issue.
  2. Maria Amelia (28 August 1851 – 9 November 1870)
  3. Maria Cristina (29 October 1852 – 28 April 1879)
  4. Maria de la Regla (9 October 1856 – 25 July 1861)
  5. Stillborn child (31 March 1857 - 31 March 1857)
  6. Fernando (29 May 1859 – 3 December 1873)
  7. Mercedes (24 June 1860 – 26 June 1878), otherwise Princess Marie des Graces d'Orleans-Montpensier, who married her first cousin Alfonso XII and is historically known as Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain, without issue.
  8. Felipe Raimundo Maria (12 May 1862 – 13 February 1864)
  9. Antonio (23 February 1866 – 24 December 1930), became Duke of Galliera in Italy. He married his first cousin Infanta Eulalia of Spain (1864–1958), daughter of Isabella II, and had two sons.
  10. Luis Maria Felipe Antonio (30 April 1867 – 21 May 1874)

Candidate for the Spanish throne

File:F. de Madrazo - 1851, Antonio de Orleans, Duque de Montpensier (Palacio Real de Madrid, 220 x 128 cm).jpg
Portrait by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1851

Antoine de Montpensier lived in Spain from 1848 when he and his family had to leave France after the Revolution of 1848. During the Spanish revolution of 1868, he supported the insurgents under Juan Prim against Queen Isabel II, his own sister-in-law.

In 1870 he fought a duel against Infante Enrique, Duke of Seville, the brother of King Francisco, and killed him. Antoine was convicted and sentenced to one month in prison.

On 16 November 1870 the Cortes voted for the next king and chose Amadeo of Savoy with 191 votes. Antoine only received 27 votes, and left Spain, only to return in 1874. His ambitions were fulfilled by his daughter Mercedes, who became Queen of Spain after her marriage to Alfonso XII, son of Isabella II. However, she died at the age of 18 without issue.

Despite never reaching the throne, however, through cognates, he is an ancestor of all Spanish monarchs since Juan Carlos I. His great granddaughter Mercedes, Countess of Barcelona, was the mother of Juan Carlos, who assumed the throne in 1975 and later abdicated in favor of his son, Felipe VI in 2014.

Early collector of photography

The Duke of Montpensier was an early collector of photography. His collection consisted of dozens of albums and hundreds of early photographs, mainly of Spanish, French and British photographers. The collection was dispersed after his death.[2]

Honours and arms

Honours

Arms

Prince Antoine did not have a personal coat of arms. He used the traditional arms of the House of Orléans, consisting of:

Azure, three fleur-de-lis Or and a label Argent

[In heraldic blazon, Azure is blue, Or is gold, and Argent is silver]

This coat of arms was first used by Philippe d'Orléans, nephew and son in law of King Louis XIV of France. As cadets of the French royal family, they bore the arms of France differenced by a label argent.

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ↑ Le Figaro (6 February 1890) : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2810289.item
  2. ↑ <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>Carlos Sánchez Gómez & Javier Piñar Samos, 'La biblioteca fotográfica de Antonio de Orleans, Duque de Montpensier (1847–1890)' (in Spanish). In: I jornadas sobre investigación en historia de la fotografía, pages 104-131 (online text).
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Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier
Cadet branch of the House of Bourbon
Born: 31 July 1824 Died: 4 February 1890
French nobility
Vacant
Title last held by
Prince Antoine Philippe d'Orléans 		Duke of Montpensier
16 August 1830 – 4 February 1890 Template:S-ttl/check 		Vacant
Title next held by
Prince Ferdinand d'Orléans
Italian nobility
Vacant
Title last held by
Maria Brignole-Sale 		Duke of Galliera
9 December 1888 – 4 February 1890 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by

Template:Princes of Orléans Template:Infantes of Spain Template:Prince of the Blood (House of Bourbon) Template:Authority control

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