Henri, Count of Chambord
Henri d' Artois (French Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné de Bourbon -Artois, duc de Bordeaux, comte de Chambord, * September 29, 1820 at the Palais des Tuileries, Paris; † August 24, 1883 at Castle Frohsdorf, Austria ) was prepared by the abdication of his grandfather Charles X proclaimed on 2 August 1830 by the French legitimist as Henry V, King of France.
Life
Henri was the posthumously -born son of the murdered in 1820 in Paris Charles Ferdinand de Bourbon, duc de Berry, second son of King Charles X of France, and Princess Maria Carolina of Naples and Sicily.
Since his birth ensured the continued existence of the legitimate dynasty of the Bourbons, he was hailed as " a God -given of a child prodigy ." The Ministry Richelieu wanted to buy the domain Chambord for the "child of France," was the plan but due to public pressure back on. Therefore, an association of legitimists acquired it and gave it to the prince on the day of his baptism, 1 May 1821.
After the July Revolution thanked Charles X and the Duke of Angoulême ( Louis XIX. ) In favor of the princes from immature, but Henri also had to flee abroad. With the education of the prince, who was brought to Prague, the Jesuit and the monarchist generals Hautpoul and Latour- Maubourg have been entrusted under the direction of Baron Damas, so the direction of the same ultra- montane and absolutist was.
After Charles X 's death on November 6, 1836 Chambord was regarded by the legitimist as the rightful King Henry V. After long journeys in different countries of Europe, during which he in 1841 as injured by a fall from his horse, that he kept a limp, and 1843 in Belgrave Square in England received a homage visit 300 legitimists from France, he settled in Gorizia and after the death of the Duke of Angouleme at the title of Count of Chambord.
The assets of five million francs, which had left him the Duke of Blacas, allowed him a princely royal household. On November 16, 1846, he married in the Minoritenkirche in Bruck an der Mur with the Princess Maria Theresa of Austria -Este and took his residence in Schloss Frohsdorf at Wiener Neustadt. The marriage remained childless.
Both after the February Revolution of 1848 and after the end of the Second Empire in 1870 tried the legitimist party, Chambord as Henry V. to raise to the throne. In order to win the support of Orleanist, wanted to merge with these and the Orléans family secure the right of succession. Both times, the attempt failed, ultimately in 1871 to the refusal of the Count, to accept the tricolor instead of the white national flag of the Kingdom and to commit themselves to a constitution in advance. Rather, Chambord was based solely on the clerical party, and thus he made his ascension to the throne impossible. Thereupon he preferred the life of a wealthy country squire to the French throne.
He died on 24 August 1883 in Frohsdorf and was buried last will and testament on September 3, 1883 Kostanjevica monastery in what is now Slovenia. [Note 1] His wife, Maria Theresa of Modena -Este, lived after his death three years in the palace of the Count Lantieri Gorizia, where she died in 1886. Since Chambord left no male descendants, went out with him the elder branch of the Bourbons, and his throne claims were henceforth claimed by the branch of the Spanish Bourbons, whose pretender Louis Alphonse de Bourbon. The House of Orléans, that its own claim of Louis- Philippe derived ( Orleanism in the narrow sense ), also institute also claim that they have by Henri starting legitimate successor to his [note 2], since the other line excluded as Spanish by the Treaty of Utrecht was (so-called unionism ); the pretender to the throne is Henri d' Orléans.