Prince Jean, Duke of Guise

Jean Pierre Clément Marie d' Orléans ( born September 4, 1874 in Paris, † August 25 1940 in Larache, Morocco) was from 1926 until his death the head of the House of Orleans and as " Jean III. " The pretender to the French throne. He led the duc de Guise and courtesy title duc d'Orléans after 1926.

Life

He was the son of Robert Philippe Louis Eugène Ferdinand d' Orléans, duc de Chartres, and Françoise d' Orléans. After completing his studies in Paris, he lived from 1891 to 1899 in Denmark, he served in the Army as an officer since 1894. Because the service in the French army he was denied at the outbreak of the First World War he was involved in the Red Cross.

After his brother and cousin Louis Philippe d' Orleans had died erbenlos in 1926, Jean d' Orléans succeeded him in the leadership of the House. In this capacity, he performed in 1937 by the entire family supports a public break with the extremist Action française, since their goals and positions are not consistent with those of the "House France " stood. After his death in exile based in Spanish Morocco, he was buried in the family grave lay in the Chapelle royale Saint -Louis in Dreux.

He married on 30 October 1899 in Twickenham his cousin Isabelle Marie Laure Mercédès Ferdinande d' Orléans, with whom he had four children:

• Isabelle Françoise Hélène Marie (1900-1983)
• Isabelle Françoise Louise Marie, (1902-1953); ∞ 1929 Christoph Prince of Greece and Denmark ( 1888-1940 )
• Anne Marie Hélène (1906-1986); ∞ 1927 Amadeus Duca d' Aosta ( 1898-1942 )
• Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis Philippe d' Orléans (1908-1999)