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| Prince Carlos | |||||
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| Infante of Spain | |||||
 Formal photo portrait wearing a SpanishHussar uniform, 1913 | |||||
| Born | (1870-11-10)10 November 1870 Gries-San Quirino [it],Bolzano,Austria-Hungary | ||||
| Died | 11 November 1949(1949-11-11) (aged 79) Seville, Spain | ||||
| Burial | Iglesia Colegial del Divino Salvador, Seville | ||||
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| House | Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ||||
| Father | Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta | ||||
| Mother | Princess Maria Antonietta of the Two Sicilies | ||||
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Don Carlos, Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Infante of Spain (FullItalian name:Carlo Maria Francesco d'Assisi Pasquale Ferdinando Antonio di Padova Francesco de Paola Alfonso Andrea Avelino Tancredi, Principe di Borbone delle Due Sicilie, Infante di Spagna;[citation needed] 10 November 1870 – 11 November 1949) was the son ofPrince Alfonso of the Two Sicilies, Count of Caserta andPrincess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and nephew of the lastKing of the Two Sicilies,Francis II.[citation needed]
On 14 February 1901 inMadrid, Carlos marriedMercedes, Princess of Asturias, elder daughter of the late KingAlfonso XII of Spain and of his wife ArchduchessMaria Christina of Austria.[citation needed] Mercedes was the elder sister and heir presumptive to KingAlfonso XIII of Spain, an unmarried teenager. A week before the wedding, on 7 February, Carlos was given the title ofInfante of Spain.[1]
Carlos and Mercedes had three children:[citation needed]
Mercedes died in childbirth in 1904.
In 1907, Carlos married secondly toPrincess Louise of Orléans, daughter ofPrince Philippe, Count of Paris.[citation needed] The couple had four children:[citation needed]
Prince Carlos's descendants include KingFelipe VI of Spain,Prince Pedro, Duke of Calabria, Prince Pedro Carlos of Orléans-Braganza, andPhilip, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia, among others.
Carlos served in theSpanish Army in theSpanish–American War and received the Military Order of Maria Cristina.[2] Eventually he rose to the rank ofInspector General.[3]
In 1894, Carlos's father Alfonso became the head of theHouse of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. On marrying his first wife, Carlos renounced on 14 December 1900 his future rights of succession to the non-existent Crown of Two Sicilies in an official document, known as the Act of Cannes, subject to a requirement in the Treaty of Naples of 1759 and the Pragmatic Decree of 6 October 1759 that the Crown of Spain should not be combined with the "Italian Sovereignty".[4] In 1960, Carlos' elder brotherFerdinand died without male issue, and a dispute arose between Carlos' sonAlfonso and Carlos' younger brotherRanieri on the headship of the house, this with competing claims: by the law of primogeniture, Carlos' son Alfonso was considered the heir, but Ranieri claimed that Carlos had renounced his rights and those of his descendants according to the Act of Cannes. Alfonso refuted that claim by stating that it was only a promise from his father to relinquish this right if the crown of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were to be united with the Spanish Crown. Since this did not happen, the act had no effect and Carlos' son Alfonso reclaimed his rights. The dispute is still not resolved. Alfonso's claim was recognised by the heads of the different lines of the House of Bourbon, although not by the head of the Orleans family,[5] and in 1983 the Spanish Council of State, following an investigation by the Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs, the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation and the Institute Salazar y Castro concluded unanimously in favour of Infante Don Alfonso's only son, Prince and Infante Don Carlos, a position shared by theSpanish Royal House.[6]
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Spain:
Kingdom of Bavaria: Knight of the RoyalOrder of Saint Hubert,1897[13]
Siam: Knight of theOrder of the Royal House of Chakri,8 June 1902[14]
United Kingdom: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of theMost Honourable Order of the Bath (civil),27 January 1903[15] (presented to the Prince by SirMortimer Durand, British Ambassador to Madrid, on the previous day[16]).| Ancestors of Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies |
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