House of Orléans

The House of Orléans, designated before 1830 as House of Bourbon - Orléans is the name of a French royal family, which filed a monarch of France in the phase of so-called " July Monarchy " 1830-1848. Currently it is the pretender to the throne in monarchist circles in France and Brazil.

• 5.1 of Louis Philippe, King of the French to the present

Formation

The House of Orléans emerged from a collateral line of the House of Bourbon ( Bourbon- Orléans ) and is therefore itself a branch of the Capetian ruling dynasty. The house was founded by Philippe I de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans ( * 1640, † 1701), a younger brother of Louis XIV, the Sun King. After the death of Henri III. Jules de Bourbon, prince de Condé, in 1709 was the rank of the first prince of the blood, and thus the right to the hereditary succession to Charles Philippe II de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans ( * 1674, † 1723), and transmitted to his descendants because the Bourbon- Orléans royal main line of the Bourbons was closest kinship.

Philippe Charles II de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans, led as the next kinsman of underaged King Louis XV. 1715-1723 the regency in France. Louis -Philippe II Joseph de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans ( * 1747, † 1793), turned under the name of Philippe Egalite of the revolution, was a representative on the Convention his voice to the condemnation of King Louis XVI. , Only to shortly thereafter himself to be guillotined than Bourbon.

Name

The son of Philippe Egalite, Louis -Philippe III. de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans, was proclaimed after the July Revolution in 1830 by the Chamber of Deputies to the " King of the French ," and that although the royal line of the Bourbons after the abdication of King Charles X. was not yet extinct. Therefore, the choice fell on him because he triggered by the Revolution Environment tongues accepted despite his father was executed in the French state and its society, and thus was the ideas of the liberal bourgeoisie to a constitution the next. In one issued on August 13, 1830 ordinance of Louis Philippe explained that the name of the new royal house founded by him from now on " House of Orléans " loud and that of his family name and his descendants henceforth should be " d' Orléans ". He took a dynastic separation of the Bourbons, which did not appear as a champion of the ultra royal legitimism for a constitution acceptable.

King Louis-Philippe was still encountered in the February Revolution of 1848 again from the throne, after which the second French Republic was founded. His descendants make but until now the pretenders to the throne for those monarchists who advocate a constitutional monarchy ( Orleanist ). CURRENT head of the family of the house is Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d' Orléans.

Since the main French branch of the Bourbons in 1883 with Henri de Bourbon -Artois, comte de Chambord, extinct was claimed the House of Orléans, the guidance of the "House France " ( Capet ), with reference to its position as the first prince of the blood and to the Treaty of Utrecht from the year 1713. In this Agreement, the progenitor of the Spanish Bourbon branch ( Bourbon -Anjou ) had made ​​a renunciation of inheritance to the French throne for himself and his descendants, which thus favors the Orléans. Notwithstanding recognize ultra royale trailer ( legitimists ) since 1883, however, the respective head of the Spanish Bourbons, who is also the senior Capet in the male line, as the rightful pretender to the throne of, currently, this is Louis Alphonse de Bourbon.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of France during the July Monarchy 1830-1831.

The since 1883 complaining of the Orléans crest in claim to leadership of the "House of France ".

The Bourbon Orleans

From the first Duke of Orléans to King Louis Philippe

Master List of the House of Orleans

Louis Philippe, King of the French to the present

• Ferdinand Philippe d' Orléans, duc de Chartres (1810-1842), eldest son of Louis Philippe, King of the French Louis Philippe Albert d' Orléans, comte de Paris (1838-1894), son of Ferdinand Philippe Louis Philippe Robert d'Orléans, duc d' Orléans (1869-1926), son of Louis Philippe Albert
• Jacques Antoine Marie Clément d' Orléans (1880-1881) † †
• Ferdinand Philippe Marie François Laurent d' Orléans, duc de Montpensier (1884-1924) † †

• Robert Louis Philippe Ferdinand François Marie d' Orléans (1866-1885)
• Henri Philippe Marie d' Orléans (1867-1901)
• Jean Pierre Clément Marie d' Orléans, duc de Guise (1874-1940) Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis Philippe d' Orléans, comte de Paris (1908-1999), former head of the House of Orléans and pretender Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d' Orléans ( b. 1933 ), current head of the House of Orleans François Henri Louis Marie d' Orléans ( b. 1961 )
• Jean Charles Pierre Marie d' Orléans ( b. 1965 ), Duke of Vendôme, Dauphin of Viennois
• Eudes Thibaut Joseph Marie d' Orléans ( b. 1968 )

• Gaston d' Orléans, comte d' Eu (1842-1922), descendants to this day as House of Orléans - Braganza Pedro de Alcántara d' Orléans (1875-1940)
• Luíz d' Orléans (1878-1920)
• António Gastão d'Orléans (1881-1918)

• Philippe Emanuel d' Orléans, duc de Vendôme (1872-1931)

• Pierre d' Orléans, duc de Penthièvre (1845-1919)

• Louis Philippe Marie Léopold d' Orléans, prince de Condé (1845-1866)
• François Marie Louis Philippe d' Orlens, duc de Guise (1854-1872)

Excerpt from the family tree of the House of Orleans

Brazil

The current pretender to the Brazilian throne are made available by the House of Orléans - Braganza, a side branch of the House of Orléans. This family is descended from Gaston d' Orléans, who was a grandson of King Louis Philippe.