Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine

Don Gonzalo de Borbón y de Dampierre, KG, full name Gonzalo Victor Alfonso José Bonifacio Antonio Maria y Todos los Santos de Borbón y de Dampierre ( born June 5, 1937 in Rome, Italy, † 27 May 2000 Lausanne, Switzerland ) was a member of the Spanish line of the Bourbons and Duke of Aquitaine.

Life

Gonzalo was the second and youngest son of Jaime de Borbón (1908-1975), Duke of Anjou and Sergovia, and his first wife Princess Victoire Jeanne Joséphine Emmanuelle (1913-2012), daughter of Roger de Dampierre, 2nd Duke de San Lorenzo, and Princess Vittoria Ruspoli. His paternal grandparents were the Spanish King Alfonso XIII. and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.

He was at the Palazzo Ruspoli, which belonged to his maternal grandparents, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli Maria ( later Pope Pius XII. ) Baptized in Rome. Since his mother was not a princess from a royal house, completed his grandfather him and his older brother Alfonso Jaime from the Spanish throne, according to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1776, from. His father was certainly disagree that his sons were Spanish Infante with all rights.

1941 the family moved to Switzerland to Lausanne, Gonzalo and his brother attended the Collège Saint -Jean in Freiburg. On December 8, 1946, he got his first Communion by Pedro Segura y Sáenz, Archbishop of Seville. A year later, his parents divorced in Budapest, and in 1949 both received a new marriage. In 1953 he first visited Spain, where he made his high school diploma. After his military service, he began his studies at the University of Madrid.

In December 1959, Don Gonzalo engaged in San Francisco with the Huntington Hotel heiress Dorothy Marguerite Fritz, but the marriage never took place. From a liaison with the American Sandra Lee Landry, a daughter emerged: Stephanie Michelle de Borbón ( born June 19, 1968 in Miami).

On January 28, 1983 Don Gonzalo married in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Doña María del Carmen Harto y Monte Alegre ( b. 1947 ), the couple divorced on 18 April 1983 before it was registered in Spain. The marriage remained childless. A few months later, he entered into a second marriage. The marriage with Doña María de las Mercedes Licer y García ( born 1963 ) took place in Madrid on 25 June 1984. In July 1985, the couple separated, the marriage was annulled in 1989 and 1994. The connection remained childless. On December 12, 1992 Don Gonzalo married in Genoa Donna Maria Emanuela Prato Longo ( b. 1960 ).

On 27 May 2000 Don Gonzalo died in Lausanne from leukemia. He was buried in the chapel Real San Sebastian in the church Descalzas in Madrid.

Titles, orders and honors

Title

1941 proclaimed the legitimists his father as the rightful heir to the throne of France, as well as the head of the French line of Bourbon. Don Gonzalo was in second place until the birth of his nephew Francisco and Louis Alphonse many years.

Order

• Carrier of the Order of the Golden Fleece
• Order of the Holy Spirit
• Ordre de Saint -Michel
• Knights Order of hl. Mauritius and Lazarus; was awarded to him in 1972 by Victor Emmanuel of Savoy.

On September 14, 1988, the Tribunal d'instance presented in Montpellier him from the French citizenship.