Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia

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Infante Jaime
Infante of Spain; Duke of Segovia ; Duke of Anjou
Jaime Enrique de Borbón.jpg
Legitimist pretender to the French throne
Pretendence 28 February 1941 – 20 March 1975
Predecessor Alfonso XIII of Spain
Successor Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz
Legitimist pretender to the Spanish throne
Pretendence 28 February 1941 – 20 March 1975
Predecessor Alfonso XIII
Successor Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz
Born (1908-06-23)23 June 1908
Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso, San Ildefonso, Segovia, Spain
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St. Gall Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Burial El Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain
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  • Emmanuelle de Dampierre
  • Charlotte Luise Auguste Tiedemann
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Full name
Jaime Leopoldo Isabelino Enrique Alejandro Alberto Alfonso Víctor Acacio Pedro Pablo María de Borbón y Battenberg
House Bourbon
Father Alfonso XIII of Spain
Mother Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
Religion Roman Catholicism

Infante Jaime of Spain, Duke of Segovia, Duke of Anjou, RE (Jaime Leopoldo Isabelino Enrique Alejandro Alberto Alfonso Víctor Acacio Pedro Pablo María de Borbón y Battenberg) (23 June 1908 – 20 March 1975), was the second son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. He was born in the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso in Segovia Province.

Succession

Because he was deaf,[1] as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the Spanish throne for himself and his descendants on 21 June/23 June 1933.[2] He was then created the title for life of Duke of Segovia by King Alfonso XIII.[3] After his father's death in 1941, he proclaimed himself the senior legitimate male heir of the House of Capet, heir to the French throne, and head of the House of Bourbon. He then took the title of Duke of Anjou and became, in the opinion of French legitimists, the de jure King of France. He was known to most French legitimists as Henri VI, though to a minority as Jacques II (after 1957, he signed all documents as Jacques Henri).[citation needed]

In 1921, he became the 1,153rd Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece[4] and Knight with Collar of the Order of Charles III and Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic both in 1925 (Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic in 1931).[5]

Marriage and issue

On 4 March 1935, in Rome, Jaime married Victoire Jeanne Joséphine Pierre Marie Emmanuelle (Emanuela) de Dampierre (Rome, 8 November 1913 – Rome, 3 May 2012),[6] daughter of Roger de Dampierre, 2nd Duque de San Lorenzo Nuovo, Vicomte de Dampierre (1892–1975) and of Donna Vittoria Ruspoli (1892–1982), daughter of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa and his third wife English American Josephine Mary Curtis.[7] Don Jaime and Donna Emanuela had two sons, named after Jaime's hemophiliac brothers, Alfonso and Gonzalo:

Don Jaime and Emmanuelle de Dampierre divorced on 6 May 1947 in Bucharest (recognized by the Italian courts on 3 June 1949 in Turin but never recognized in Spain) and, on 3 August 1949 in Innsbruck, Don Jaime remarried civilly to divorced singer Charlotte Luise Auguste Tiedemann (Königsberg, 2 January 1919 – Berlin, 3 July 1979), daughter of Otto Eugen Tiedemann and wife Luise Klein.[8] In the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church and of the French legitimists, Emmanuelle de Dampierre remained always his wife. The second marriage produced no children. His first wife remarried in Vienna, on 21 November 1949, to Antonio Sozzani (Milan, 12 July 1918 – Milan, 6 January 2007), son of Cesare Sozzani and wife Cristina Alemani, without issue.

Renunciation

On 6 December 1949, Don Jaime retracted his renunciation of the throne of Spain. On 3 May 1964,[9] he took the title Duke of Madrid as head of the Carlist branch of the Spanish succession (recognized as King Jaime IV of Spain by the legitimist group of Carlists who did not support the Borbón-Parma claim after Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime died in 1936). On 19 July 1969, Don Jaime definitively renounced the Spanish succession in favour of his nephew, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, by petition of his son Alfonso de Borbón.

Don Jaime died in St. Gall Cantonal Hospital in Switzerland on 20 March 1975. He is buried at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

Ancestry

Heraldry

Notes

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  4. ↑ T.F. Boettger. Knights of the Golden Fleece (accessed on November 16, 2007)
  5. ↑ Política nacional, ABC, 8 december 1925. Accessed 2012-11-13.
  6. ↑ Death of Emanuela de Dampierre
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Bibliography

  • Zavala, José M. Don Jaime, el trágico Borbón: la maldición del hijo sordomudo de Alfonso XIII. Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros, 2006. ISBN 8497345657.
  • Aranguren, Begoña. Emanuela de Dampierre: memorias, esposa y madre de los Borbones que pudieron reinar en España. Madrid: Esfera de los Libros, 2003. ISBN 8497341414.
  • Pedersen, Jørgen. Riddere af Elefantordenen 1559–2009, Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2009. ISBN 8776744345

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Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia
Cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty
Born: 23 June 1908 Died: 20 March 1975
Titles in pretence
Preceded by — TITULAR —
King of France
28 February 1941 – 20 March 1975
Reason for succession failure:
Bourbon monarchy abolished in 1830		 Succeeded by
Alphonse II
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