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Bourbon (Duke of Angoul me)
Duke of Angoulême, who was Dauphin till the Revolution of 1830, and died without issue in 1844, and CHARLES FERDINAND, Duke of Berry, who died, Feb. 14, 1820, of a wound given him by a political fanatic. The Duke of Berry had two children, (1) LOUISE MARIE THERESE, called Mademoiselle d'Artois; and (2) HENRI CHARLES FERDINAND MARIE DIEUDONNE, born in 1820, and at first called Duke of Bordeaux, but afterward Count de Chambord, who was looked upon by his party until his death (in 1883) as the legitimate heir to the crown of France.
The branch of the Bourbons known as the House of Orleans was raised to the throne of France by the Revolution of 1830, and deprived of it by that of 1848.
It derives its origin from Duke PHILIP I. of Orleans (died 1701), second son of Louis XIII., and only brother of Louis XIV. A regular succession of princes leads up to the notorious EGALITE OR- LEANS, who, in 1793, died on the scaffold, and whose son, LOUIS PHILIPPE was King of France from 1830 to the Revolution of 1848. His grandson, LOUIS PHILIPPE, Count de Paris, born Aug. 24, 1838, died in London, Sept. 8, 1894. His Son ROBERT, Duke of Orleans, born in BOURBON 1869, is the present head of the family, and the last male representative of the elder Bourbons, who unites in himself the claims of both branches to the throne of France.
The Spanish-Bourbon dynasty originated when, in in in 1700, 17 Louis XIV. placed his grandson, PHILIP, Duke of Anjou, on the Spanish throne, who became Philip V. of Spain. From him descends AL- PHONSO XIII., born in 1886.
The royal line of Naples, or the Two Sicilies, took its rise, when, in 1735, DON CARLOS, the younger son of Philip V. of Spain, obtained the crown of Sicily and Naples (then attached to the Spanish monarchy), and reigned as Charles III.
In 1759, however, he succeeded his brother, FERDINAND VI., on the Spanish throne, when he transferred the Two Sicilies to his third son, FERDINANDO (Ferdinand IV.), on the express condition that this crown should not be aga again united with Spain. Ferdinand IV. had to leave Naples in 1806; but, after the fall of Napoleon, he again became King of both Sicilies under the title of Ferdinand I., and the succession remained to his descendants till 1860, when Naples was incorporated into the new kingdom of Italy.
Robert, Duke of Orleans, who, in 1894, became the head of the royal family of France, married, in 1896, the Archduchess Marie Dorothea, daughter of the Archduke Joseph, cousin of the Emperor of Austria. His mother was the Spanish Infanta Louise of Montpensier, and he has one brother and four sisters; the eldest of the latter, Princess Amelie, married the King of Portugal (she died in 1908), and the second, Helena, married the Duke of Aosta, nephew of the King of Italy.
The only uncle of the Duke of Orleans was the Duke de Chartres, born in 1840, who married a daughter of the Prince de Joinville. He died in 1910. A son and a daughter were the issue of this marriage, Princess Marguerite, who in 1896 married the Duke of Magenta, and Prince Jean, Duke de Guise (born in 1874), who married, in 1899, Isabelle, Princess de France. The issue were three daughters and a son. The latter, Prince Henry, was born in 1908.
The granduncles of the Duke of Orleans were: Francis, Prince de Joinville (1818-1900), who married a daughter of Pedro I., Emperor of Brazil, by whom he had a daughter, Françoise (1844-1910), and a son, Pierre, Duke of Penthievre (1845-1919); Henry, Duke of Aumale (1824-1897); Anthony, Duke of Montpensier (1824-1890), married, in 1846, a sister of Queen Isabella of Spain, and had a daughter, the wife of the BOURBON Count of Paris, and a son, Prince Anthony, born in 1866, who married his cousin, the Infanta Eulalie of Spain, in 1886; Louis, Duke of Nemours, born in 1814, died in 1896. He was the father of two daughters and two sons, the eldest son being the Count of Eu, born in 1842, married a daughter of Pedro II. of Brazil, and, having three children, and the second son being the Duke of Alençon, born in 1844, died 1910, and married to a Bavarian princess (who was burned in the Paris bazaar fire in 1897), and having two children.
By the death of the Count of Chambord, in 1883, the elder line of the Bourbons of France became extinct, and the right of succession merged in the Count of Paris, grandson of King Louis Philippe, representative of the younger, or Orleans, line.