House Orleans Father Henri, Comte de Paris | Name Prince Duke | |
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Born 25 June 1941 (age 83) Rabat, Morocco ( 1941-06-25 ) Spouse Gersende Therese de Sabran-Ponteves Issue Princess Diane of Orleans, Madame de NoaillesPrince Charles Louis, Duke of ChartresPrince Foulques, Duke of Aumale Mother Princess Isabelle of Orleans-Braganza | ||
Prince Jacques of Orléans, Fils de France, Duke of Orleans (Jacques Jean Jaroslaw Marie; born on 25 June 1941 in Rabat, Morocco), is the son of the late Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis Philippe d'Orléans (the Orleanist claimant to the French throne from 1940 until his death) and Isabelle Marie de Orléans Bragança.
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He married Gersende Thérèse Françoise de Sabran-Pontèves on 3 August 1969 in Ansouis-Vaucluse, Franceborn, in Ansouis-Vaucluse. Gersende Thérèse, born on 29 July 1942, daughter of Marie Joseph Elzéar Foulques de Sabran-Pontèves, 7th Duc de Sabran-Pontèves and Roselyne Manca-Amat de Vallombrosa, is incidentally a descendant of James II of England and his illegitimate son, James Fitzjames, 1st Duke of Berwick, through her maternal grandfather's mother, Geneviève de Perusse des Cars. Her maternal grandmother was a direct descendant, in the male line, of the Bonapartist Marshal Jean Lannes.