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Infante Carlos María de los Dolores Juan Isidro José Francisco Quirin Antonio Miguel Gabriel Rafael de Borbón y Austria-Este, Duke of Madrid (
March 30 1848 -
July 18 1909) was the senior member of the
House of Bourbon from
1887 until his death. He was the
Carlist claimant to the
throne of
Spain under the name
Carlos VII from
1868 (his father's Spanish abdication), and the
Legitimist claimant to the throne of
France under the name
Charles XI after the death of his father in
1887.
Carlos was born in
Ljubljana, the capital of
Carniola in what is now
Slovenia, the elder son of
Juan, Count of Montizón and of his wife Archduchess Maria Beatrice of
Austria-Este. As an infant the family lived briefly in
London where Carlos' younger brother
Alfonso was born. After their father, known too liberal for Carlist tastes, left their mother, the boys lived with their mother in
Modena. Their mother's brother Duke
Francis V of Modena was largely responsible for the education of the boys and was the chief influence in their early lives. Carlos was known for his
traditionalist views, much different from those of his father.
On
February 4,
1867, at
Frohsdorf in
Austria, Carlos married Princess Margarita of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of Duke
Charles III of Parma and of his wife,
Louise Marie Thérèse of France. The couple had five children:
- Blanca de Borbón y Borbón-Parma (1868-1949)
- Jaime de Borbón y Borbón-Parma (1870-1931)
- Elvira de Borbón y Borbón-Parma (1871-1929)
- Beatriz de Borbón y Borbón-Parma (1874-1961)
- Alicia de Borbón y Borbón-Parma (1876-1975)
Carlos organized and lead the
Third Carlist War. Between
1872 and
1876 he effectively ruled much of Peninsular Spain.
In January 1893 Carlos' wife, Margarita, died. The following year he decided to remarry. He consulted his mother who suggested two ladies: Princess Theresia of Liechtenstein (daughter of Prince Alfred of
Liechtenstein) and Princess Berthe of
Rohan (daughter of Prince Alain of Rohan). Having met both ladies, Carlos decided on the latter and asked for her hand in marriage.
On
April 28,
1894, Carlos and Berthe were married by
Cardinal Schönborn in his private chapel in
Prague. Berthe had a dominant personality, making the marriage very unpopular among Carlists. "All writers agree that this second marriage was disastrous, not only for the family of Don Carlos and for [Carlos] himself, but also for the [Carlist] party."
Carlos died in
Varese in
1909. He is buried in the
Basilica di San Giusto in
Trieste. He was succeeded in his Spanish and French claims by his son Jaime.
Ancestry
Footnotes
Bibliography
Del Burgo, Jaime. Carlos VII y su tiempo: Leyenda y realidad. Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1994.
"The Curé Santa Cruz and the Carlist War." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1873).
"The Spanish Pretender: Who he's and What he's Been." New York Times (May 31, 1874).
Don Carlos VII
at the Classic Encyclopedia, based on the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
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