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Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria

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Successor
  
Infante Carlos


House
  
Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Name
  
Infante Duke

Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria

Pretendence
  
7 January 1960 – 3 February 1964

Born
  
30 November 1901 Madrid, Spain (
1901-11-30
)

Burial
  
Panteon Infantes, Monastery of San Lorenzo de el Escorial

Issue
  
Princess Teresa Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria Princess Ines Maria

Died
  
February 3, 1964, Madrid, Spain

Spouse
  
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria (m. 1936)

Children
  
Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria

Siblings
  
Princess Maria de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Parents
  
Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Similar People
  
Infante Carlos - Duke of C, Infanta Alicia - Duchess, Juan Carlos I of Spain, Mercedes - Princess of Asturias, Princess Anne - Duchess

Predecessor
  
Prince Ferdinand Pius

Infante Alfonso of Spain, Prince of the Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria (30 November 1901 – 3 February 1964) was one of two claimants to the title of the head of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies from 1960 until his death in 1964. Alfonso was the son of Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1870–1949) and his wife Mercedes, Princess of Asturias (1880–1904). He was born and died in Madrid, Spain.

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Alfonso's mother was Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, but she died in childbirth in 1904. King Alfonso XIII of Spain was unmarried at the time so as the Princess of the Asturias' eldest son, Alfonso became heir-presumptive to the Spanish crown, though, unlike his mother, he never held the title of Prince of Asturias. He was heir-presumptive until the birth of his cousin, Alfonso in 1907, to Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenie.

Marriage and issue

Alfonso married Princess Alicia of Bourbon-Parma (1917-2017), his second cousin, daughter of Elias, Duke of Parma and Piacenza and his wife Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, on 16 April 1936 in Vienna, Austria. Alfonso and Alicia had three children:

  • Princess Teresa María of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 6 February 1937), married to Íñigo Moreno y Artega, Marqués de Laula, with seven children
  • Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (16 January 1938 - 5 October 2015), married to Princess Anne of Orléans, with five children
  • Princess Inés María of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 18 February 1940), married to Luis de Morales y Aguado, with five children
  • Honours

    On the day after his birth (1 December 1901), his grandmother Queen Maria Christina conferred on him the Order of the Golden Fleece, the Collar of the Order of Charles III, and the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.

    References

    Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria Wikipedia