Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier
Ferdinand Philippe Marie François Laurent d' Orléans, duc de Montpensier ( born September 9, 1884 Castle in Eu Eu; † January 30, 1924 at Castle Randan Randan ) was a member of the House of Orléans. He led the courtesy title " duc de Montpensier ."
Life
Ferdinand d' Orléans was the youngest son of eight children of the French aristocrat Louis Philippe Albert d' Orléans, comte de Paris (1838-1894) and his wife Princess Maria Isabella d' Orléans - Montpensier (1848-1919), eldest daughter of Antoine d' Orléans, duc de Montpensier and the Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain Ferdinanda. Paternal His grandparents were Ferdinand Philippe d' Orléans, duc de Chartres and Princess Helene of Mecklenburg -Schwerin. Maternal His grandparents were King Ferdinand VII of Spain and Maria Christina, the daughter of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his wife Maria Isabel of Spain.
After studying at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, he went on extended trips, including Brazil, Japan, Borneo, India and French Indochina. His impressions of the country and people he wrote down in his travel reports and published them later. Ferdinand d' Orléans was an enthusiastic supporter of the theses of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
In 1913, the Great Powers recognized at the Conference of Ambassadors of London to the Albanian state. The great powers doubted but the fact that the Albanians could govern themselves, and therefore reserved the right to appoint a prince. Their proposal fell to Ferdinand d' Orléans, duc de Montpensier - but he refused because he said that this offer is rather his older brother Louis Philippe Robert d'Orléans, duc d' Orléans states. However, the choice fell on a German Protestants - Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich of Wied - was favored by Austria -Hungary and Germany.
Maria Isabella d' Orléans - Montpensier died on July 20, 1919 in Seville and was buried in the Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. On August 20 1921 Ferdinand d' Orléans married at Château de Randan the Spanish noblewoman Doña María Isabel Josefa Theodora González de Olañeta y Ibarreta ( 1897-1958 ), daughter and heiress of Don Ulpiano González de Olañeta y González de Ocampo, 2nd Marqués de Valdeterrazo and Doña Isabel de Ibarreta y Uhagón. The marriage remained childless. Almost three years later, Ferdinand d' Orléans died of a heart attack - it has been suggested that he experimented with drugs - and was buried in the Chapelle royale de Dreux Dreux. His widow married a year later in Madrid Jose Maria de Huarte y de Jáuregui († 1969).
Primary literature
Secondary literature
- Jiří Louda, Michael MacLagan: Lines of Succession. Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe. Little, Brown and Company, London 1999, ISBN 0-316-84820-4.
- Arnold McNaughton: The Book of Kings. A Royal Genealogy. 3 volumes. Garnstone Press, London 1973, ISBN 0-900391-19-7.
- Hugh Montgomery - Massingberd: Burke's Royal Families of the World. Burke 's Peerage Ltd. , London 1977, ISBN 0-85011-029-7.
- Georges Poisson: Les Orléans. Une famille en quête d'un trône. 3e édition revue et mise à jour. Perrin, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-262-01583- X.