Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma

Prince Sixtus Ferdinand Maria Ignazio Alfred Robert of Bourbon- Parma ( born August 1, 1886 Castle Wartegg Rorschacherberg on Lake Constance, Switzerland, † March 14, 1934 in Paris) was a nobility to the House of Bourbon -Parma, Belgian officer and namesake of the diplomatic Sixtus affair in the First World war, in which he unsuccessfully mediated between France and Austria - Hungary.

Life

Prince Sixtus was the son of the late Duke of Parma, Robert I (1848-1907) and his second wife Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862-1959), daughter of King Michael I of Portugal from the House of Braganza and his wife Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein -Wertheim -Rosenberg. His sister was the Empress Zita of Austria.

On March 14, 1919 married Prince Sixtus in Paris the Princess Hedwig de la Rochefoucauld ( 1896-1986 ), daughter of Duke Armand of Doudeauville and his wife Princess Radziwill Luiza. The marriage produced a daughter emerged:

• Isabella Marie Antoinette Louise Hedwig (1922-2014)

Sixtus 's nephew, Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon- Parma (1930-2010), inherited the throne claims the Carlist antikings the Spanish Bourbons, but maintained after the effective restoration of the Spanish monarchy after 1975 in favor of the reigning King Juan Carlos I of the Bourbon line of Queen Isabella II