The name 'Belgium' is derived from Gallia Belgica, a Roman province
in the northernmost part of Gaul that was inhabited by the Belgae,
a mix of Celtic and Germanic peoples. Historically, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg were known as the Low Countries, which
used to cover a somewhat larger area than the current Benelux group
of states. From the end of the Middle Ages until the 17th century,
it was a prosperous centre of commerce and culture. From the 16th
century until the Belgian revolution in 1830, many battles between
European powers were fought in the area of Belgium, causing it to
be dubbed the battleground of Europe, a reputation strengthened by
both World Wars. Upon its independence, Belgium eagerly participated
in the Industrial Revolution and, during the course of the twentieth
century, possessed several colonies in Africa. The second half of the
20th century was marked by the rise of communal conflicts between the
Flemings and the Francophones fuelled by cultural differences on the
one hand and an asymmetrical economic evolution of Flanders and
Wallonia on the other hand. These still-active conflicts have caused
far-reaching reforms of the formerly unitary Belgian state into a
federal state in order for a settlement to be made to the conflict.

Sovereign: Albert II King of the Belgians (Stuyvenberg Castle,

 Belgium, June 6th, 1934). Son of Leopold III King of the Belgians

(1901-1983) and 1) Astrid Princess of Sweden (1905-1935). Succeeds

his brother Baudouin (1930-July 31st, 1993). Inauguration: Parliament,

Brussels, Belgium, August 9th, 1993. Motto:"Eendracht maakt macht"

(Union is strength). Religion: Roman Catholic. Married (1959):

Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria (1937).

 

 

 

The Titles of The King of The Belgians

 

The sovereign is His Majesty, King of the Belgians.
The other members of the royal family are styled Royal
Highness and Prince/Princess of Belgium. The children
of Princess Astrid are styled His/Her Imperial and
Royal Highness and are Archdukes/Archduchesses of
Austria-Este, Prince/Princess of Belgium. Until World
War I the family also bore the German titles Prince
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony.

The Succession to The Throne

Until 1991 the Constitution said: the constitutional power
of the King is hereditary in direct, natural and legal line
from HRH Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, from male to male descendant,
in order of birth, and with the eternal exclusion of women and
their descendance. However on March 8th, 1992, the Salian Law
was replaced by the absolute rule about the right of the first
born, with the result that now the princesses have the same
rights of succession as their brothers. The King can't be head
of state of another country at the same time, unless a 2/3
majority of both parliaments agree with it. When there is no
descendance anymore the King has the right to appoint his
successor. The Chambers have to agree with that choice with 2/3
majority. A Prince looses his right of succession when he marries
without asking permission. The King is able to give this Prince
his rights back.

Postal address
Royal Palace Brederodestraat 16
1000 Brussels Belgium

The Royal Residences of Belgium

King Albert II and Queen Paola live at Belvédère Castle, Laeken.
It is situated very near Laeken Castle, which is the castle where
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde live with their children.
Since 1998 Queen Fabiola lives at Stuyvenberg Castle, Laeken. Also
Princess Astrid and her family live there. Prince Laurent and
Princess Claire live at the Villa Clementine at Tervuren. The Royal
Palace at Brussels, as well as sometimes Laken Castle, is used for
official events. Both the Royal Palace at Brussels and Laeken Castle
belong to the state, and are made available to the King. At present
als Belvédère Castle, Stuyvenberg Castle, Villa Clémentine, Ciergnon
Castle and Fenffe Castle are made available to the king. These
residences belong to the Royal Trust, and via the Trust, to the state.
King Albert II himself owns the residence "Le Romarin" at Châteauneuf
de Grasse. Queen Fabiola owns the Villa Astrida at Motril.

The History of Belgium

In 843 the area of the present Belgium was divided between France and
Lorraine by the grandsons of King Charles the Great. Through the Middle
Ages the Counts of Flanders were liege to the French Kings. Brabant,
Hainault, Limburg and Luxemburg stayed a part of the German State. At
the end of the 14th century the Dukes of Burgundy tried to unite the
"Low Countries" to get a huge state in the west of Europe. However,
after the death of Duke Charles the Bold the House of Habsburg inherited
the land. The war (1568-1648) between the Spanish King Philip II and
the northern part of the Low Countries led to the independency of this
part of the Low Countries as the Republic of the Seven United Provinces.
The south came to the Austrian Habsburgs after 1700. On January 11th,
1790, the States General in Brussels declared the United Belgian States
independent. Afterwards it became a part of the French Republic and later
the French Empire. In 1814 Belgium was reunited with the northern part
of the Low Countries. Together they became the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The Belgians were not happy with this union -one of the biggest contrast
was that the south was catholic and the north predominantly protestant-
and in August 1830 a revolution began. Although the Dutch King Willem I
sent Crown Prince Willem, and later his younger son Prince Frederik, to
the south, leading a big army, in September that army was forced to leave
Brussels. On October 4th, 1830, the provisional government declared Belgium
independent, and in November they choose to reject the dynasty of the Nassau
family. After other states in the world recognized the country as an independent
state, the government looked out for a monarch. The second son of King Louis-
Philippe of France, the Duke of Némours, was asked, but refused. Finally on June
4th 1831 Leopold Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was chosen. He had been married
to the British Princess Charlotte, who had died in childbed in 1817. The new
King was welcomed in Brussels on July 21st, 1831, and on the same day he took
the oath as King Leopold I. Soon afterwards the Dutch tried to win back Belgium
for the last time. With the help of France Belgium stayed independent, but lost
Maastricht and a part of Luxemburg and Limburg. Until 1839 the Dutch refused to
acknowledge the independency of the Belgian State. A year after he became King
Leopold I married Louise-Marie, a daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France, to
secure the survival of his dynasty. She gave birth to three sons: the oldest died
soon after his birth, the second became King Leopold II, and the third Philippe
Count of Flanders later secured the survival of the dynasty.

In 1865 King Leopold I died and was followed by his son Leopold II, who took the
oath on December 17th, 1865. His sister Charlotte, married to Archduke Maximilian
of Austria King of Mexico, became a widow when her husband was killed in Queretaro
in 1867, and soon afterwards she showed signs of insanity. Leopold II reigned in a
democratic country, which restricted his power. Congo, a state in Africa, became a
part of Belgium officially in 1885, although it was conquered some years before.
King Leopold II died in 1909 after having married for the second time with his
mistress the Baroness of Vaughan. His first wife Marie-Henriette Archduchess of
Austria had already died in 1902. From the first marriage four daughters and a son
were born. The son, Leopold, died, only 10-years old, in 1869. Heir to the throne
now was Leopold II's brother Philippe, who died in 1905. Philippe's oldest son
Baudouin had died in 1891, and thus the new heir to the throne was the younger son,
who became King Albert I, who took the oath on December 23rd, 1909. In 1900 he had
married Elisabeth Duchess of Bavaria and they had three children: Leopold, Charles
and Marie-José. The new King was very popular and in World War I (1914-1918) he
became even more popular because of his resistance against the German troups. The
King stayed in De Panne, in the only independent part of Belgium on the west coast
of the country, and leaded his army from there. The Queen helped the wounded as
much as she could. When the King fell down in the Ardennes during a mountaineering
-trip in 1934 and died, the whole country mourned.

The new King Leopold III married Princess Astrid of Sweden in 1926 and they got
three children in the following years: Joséphine-Charlotte (1927), Baudouin (1930)
and Albert (1934). In 1935 Belgium mourned again when the new Queen Astrid died
in a car-crash during the holidays in Switzerland. In 1940 Belgium was conquered
by the German troups. Leopold III decided to stay in Belgium, like his father had
done in World War I, although the government had fled the country. During the war
the King remarried with Lilian Baels. In 1944 the royal family was taken to Germany
and afterwards to Austria and held prisoner. When Belgium was freed later that
year Leopold III's brother Charles became the regent, which he stayed until 1950.
Leopold III had returned to Belgium in 1945, but the Belgian people didn't wish to
get him back as a King because of his behaviour during the war. In 1950 finally a
referendum was held, and Leopold III returned to Belgium. On August 1st, 1950, he
was forced to give the throne to his oldest son Baudouin I, who reigned as a regent
until he took the oath on July 16, 1951. Leopold III didn't die until 1983. Baudouin
I declared Congo an independent republic in 1960. Later that year he married Doña
Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, but they never got children. Philippe, the oldest son of
his younger brother Albert and his wife Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria (they met at
the coronation of Pope John XXIII in Rome), was seen as the next king. However when
King Baudouin I suddenly died in 1993, it was Albert himself who became King Albert II.

The Kings of Belgium

 HM King Albert II Felix Umberto Theodor
Christian Eugène Marie. Born on the 6th
of June 1934. King on the 9th of August
1993. Married on July 2nd, 1959 to Paola
Ruffo di Calabria.

 

HM Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria. Born on
September 11, 1937. Married on August 29,
1959 to Prince Albert (later King Albert II).

 

 

 

HRH Prince Philippe Leopold Louis Marie.
The King's elder son. Born on the 15 of April
1960. Duke of Brabant. Married on December 4,
1999 to Mathilde Marie Ghislaine d'Udekem d'Acoz,
born on the 20 of January 1973.

 

HRH Princess Elisabeth Therese Marie Helene.
Prince Philippe's daughter. Born on the 25 of
October 2001.

 

HI & RH Princess Astrid Josephine-Charlotte
Fabrizia Elisabeth Paola Marie. The King's
daughter. Born on the 5 of June 1962. Married
on the 22 of Septbember 1984 to HI&RH Archduke
Lorenz of Austria-Este, born on the 16 of December
1955, who was created Prince of Belgium on the 10
of November 1995.

 

HI & RH Prince Amadeo Maria Josef Carl Pierre
Philippe Paola Marcus d'Aviano. Princess
Astrid's elder son, born on the 21 of February
1986. Prince of Belgium, Imperial Prince and
Archduke of Austria-Este, Royal Prince of
Hungary and Bohemia.

 

HI & RH Princess Maria Laura Zita Beatrix Gerhard.
Princess Astrid's eldest daughter, born on the
26 of August 1988. Princess of Belgium, Imperial
Princess and Archduchess of Austria-Este, Royal
Princess of Hungary and Bohemia.

 

HI & RH Prince Joachim Carl Maria Nikolaus Isabelle
Marcus d'Aviano. Princess Astrid's younger son,
born on the 9 of December 1991. Prince of Belgium,
Imperial Prince and Archduke of Austria-Este, Royal
Prince of Hungary and Bohemia.

 

HI & RH Princess Louisa Maria Anna Martine Pilar.
Princess Astrid's second daughter, born on the
11 of October 1995. Princess of Belgium, Imperial
Princess and Archduchess of Austria-Este, Royal
Princess of Hungary and Bohemia.

 

HI & RH Princess Laetitia Maria Nora Anna Joachim
Zita. Princess Astrid's youngest daughter, born
on the 23 of April 2003. Princess of Belgium,
Imperial Princess and Archduchess of Austria-Este,
Royal Princess of Hungary and Bohemia.

 

HRH Prince Laurent Benoit Baudouin Marie.
The Kings's younger son. Born on the 19 of
October 1963. Married on the 12 of April 2003
to Claire Louise Coombs.

 

HM Queen Fabiola Mora y Aragón. Born on the
11 of June 1928. Married on the15 of December
1960 to King Baudouin I (1930-1993) of the Belgians.

 

Other members of the Royal family
Alexandre Emmanuel Henri Albert Marie Léopold.
The King's half-brother. Born on the 18 of July
1943. Prince of Belgium. Married on the 14 of
March 1991 to Léa Inge Dora Wolman, born in 1951.

 

Marie Christine Daphné Astrid Elisabeth Léopoldine.
The King's half-sister. Born on the 6 of February
1951. Princess of Belgium. Married 1st in 1981
(divorced the same year) to Paul Druker, born in
1938. Married 2nd in 1989 to Jean Paul Gourgues.

 

Marie-Esmeralda Adelaide Lilian Anna Léopoldine.
The King's half-sister. Born on the 30 of September
1956. Princess of Belgium. Married in 1998 to
Salvador Moncada. 

     

The History of The House of Wettin

The House of Wettin is a dynasty of German counts, dukes, prince-
electors (Kurfürsten) and kings that once ruled the area of today's
German states of Saxony, the Saxon part of Saxony-Anhalt, and
Thuringia for more than 800 years as well as holding at times the
kingship of Poland. Agnates of the House of Wettin have, at various
times, ascended the thrones of Great Britain, Portugal, Bulgaria,
Poland, Saxony, and Belgium; of these, only the British and Belgian
lines retain their thrones today. The oldest member of the House of
Wettin who is known for certain was Thiedericus (died 982), who was
probably based in the Liesgau (located at the western edge of the
Harz). Around 1000, as part of the German conquest of Slavic territory,
the family acquired Wettin Castle, after which they named themselves.
Wettin Castle is located in Wettin in the Hosgau on the Saale River.
Around 1030, the Wettin family received the Eastern March as a fief.

The prominence of the Wettin family in the Slavic marches caused Emperor
Henry IV to invest them with the March of Meissen as a fief in 1089.
The family advanced over the course of the Middle Ages: in 1263 they
inherited the landgraviate of Thuringia (though without Hesse), and in
1423 they were invested with the Duchy of Saxony, centred at Wittenberg,
thus becoming one of the prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire. The
family divided into two ruling branches in 1485 when the sons of Frederick
II, Elector of Saxony divided the territories hitherto ruled jointly. The
elder son Ernest, who had succeeded his father as Prince-elector, received
the territories assigned to the Elector (Electoral Saxony) and Thuringia,
while his younger brother Albert obtained the March of Meissen, which he
ruled from Dresden. As Albert ruled under the title of "Duke of Saxony",
his possessions were also known as Ducal Saxony.

The older, Ernestine branch remained predominant until 1547 and played an
important role in the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. Their
predominance ended in the Schmalkaldic War, which pitted the Protestant
Schmalkaldic League against Emperor Charles V. Although itself Protestant,
the Albertine branch rallied to the Empire's cause; Charles V rewarded them
by forcing the Ernestines to sign away their rights to the Electoral title
and lands to the Albertines. The Ernestine line was thereafter restricted
to Thuringia, and its dynastic unity swiftly crumbled. The Albertine Wettin
maintained most of the territorial integrity of Saxony, preserving it as a
significant power in the region, and using small appanage fiefs for their
cadet branches, few of which survived for significant lengths of time. The
Ernestine Wettin, on the other hand, repeatedly subdivided their territory,
creating an intricate patchwork of small duchies and counties in Thuringia.

The junior Albertine branch ruled as Electors (1547-1806) and Kings of Saxony
(1806-1918) and also played a role in Polish history: two Wettin were Kings of
Poland (between 1697-1763) and a third ruled the Duchy of Warsaw (1807-1814)
as a satellite of Napoleon. After the Napoleonic Wars, the Albertine branch
lost about 40% of its lands, including the old Electoral Saxony, to Prussia,
restricting it to a territory coextensive with the modern Saxony). 

       

 

The Family Titles and Styles

 

Members of the family bear the Title of Prince or Princess of Belgium

together with the foraml appellation of His or Her Royal Highness.

 

   

The Genealogy of The Royal House

 

 

Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich Pr of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Duke of Saxony,

[see Saxony] was b.Coburg 16 Dec 1790. On 2 May 1816 he married Pss Charlotte

Of Great Britain, Ireland and Hannover (Carlton House 7 Jan 1796-Claremont House

6 Nov 1817) , the only child of the then Prince of Wales [later, King George IV]. Had

she lived, Leopold would have assumed the role later taken by his nephew, Prince

Albert, as Prince Consort of Great Britain. It was not to be. However, on 4 Jun 1831

he was elected as King LÉOPOLD I of the Belgians. He died at Laeken 10 Dec

1865. He m.2d Compiègne 9 Aug 1832 Louise Marie Pss d'Orléans

(Palermo 3 Apr 1812-Ostende 11 Oct 1850)

1a) Louis-Philippe Léopold Victor Ernest

(Laeken 24 Jul 1833-Laeken 16 May 1834)

 

 

2a) LÉOPOLD II Louis Philippe Marie Victor, King of the Belgians

(Brussels 9 Apr 1835-Laeken 17 Dec 1909); m.Brussels 22 Aug 1853

Marie Henriette Archdss of Austria (Buda 23 Aug 1836-Spa 19 Sep 1902);

m.2d Brussels 14 Dec 1909, in a religious ceremony "in articulo mortis"

(on his deathbed) by the priest of Laeken Cooreman, Blanche Delacroix

(Bucharest 1883-Cambo 1948), unofficially cr

Bss de Vaughan in Belgium (a courtesy title)

1b) Louise Marie Amélie (Brussels 18 Feb 1858-Wiesbaden 1 Mar 1924);

m.Brussels 4 Feb 1875 (div Gotha 15 Jan 1906) Philipp Pr of Saxe-Coburg

-Gotha (Paris 28 Mar 1844-Coburg 3 Jul 1921)

2b) Léopold Ferdinand Élie Victor Albert Marie, Duke of

Brabant (Laeken 12 Jun 1859-Brussels 22 Jan 1869)

3b) Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte (Laeken 21 May

1864-Pannonhalma 23 Aug 1945); m.1st Vienna 10 May 1881 Crown Prince

Rudolf of Austria (Laxenburg 21 Aug 1858-Mayerling 30 Jan 1889);

m.2d Miramar 22 Mar 1900 Elemér Pr Lónyay de Nagy-Lónya et

Vásáros-Namény (Bodrog-Olaszi 24 Aug 1863-Budapest 20 Jul 1946)

4b) Clémentine Albertine Marie Léopoldine (Laeken 30 Jul

1872-Nice 8 Mar 1955); m.Moncalieri 14 Nov 1910 Pr

Victor Napoléon (Paris 18 Jul 1862-Brussels 3 May 1926)

3a) Philippe Eugène Ferdinand Marie Clément Baudouin Léopold

Georges, Ct of Flanders (Laeken 24 Mar 1837- Brussels 17 Nov 1905);

m.Berlin 25 Apr 1867 Marie Pss von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

(Sigmaringen 17 Nov 1845-Brussels 26 Nov 1912)

1b) Baudouin Léopold Philippe Marie Charles Antoine

Joseph Louis (Brussels 3 Jun 1869-Brussels 23 Jan 1891)

2b) Henriette Marie Charlotte Antoinette (Brussels 30 Nov 1870-Sierre,

Valais, Switzerland 28 Mar 1948); m.Brussels 12 Feb 1896 Emanuel

Pr d'Orléans Duc de Vendôme (Obermais 18 Jan 1872-Cannes 1 Feb 1931)

3b) Joséphine Marie Stéphanie Victoire

(Brussels 30 Nov 1870-Brussels 18 Jan 1871)

4b) Joséphine Caroline Marie Albertine (Brussels 18 Oct 1872-Namur

6 Jan 1958); m.Brussels 28 May 1894 Karl Anton Pr von Hohenzollern

(Sigmaringen 1 Sep 1868-Namedy 21 Feb 1919)

 

 

5b) ALBERT I Leopold Clemens Marie Meinrad, King of

the Belgians 1909-1934 (Brussels 8 Apr 1875-d.in mountaineering

accident at Marche-les-Dames 17 Feb 1934); m.Munich 2 Oct 1900

Elisabeth Dss in Bavaria (Possenhofen 25 Jul 1876-Brussels 23 Nov 1965)

 

 

 

1c) LÉOPOLD III Philipp Karl Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel,

King of the Belgians, abdicated 1951 (Brussels 3 Nov 1901-Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

25 Sep 1983); m.1st (civ) Stockholm 4 Nov 1926 (rel) Brussels 10 Nov 1926

Astrid Pss of Sweden (Stockholm 17 Nov 1905-k.in car accident at Kußnacht,

Switzerland 29 Aug 1935); m.2d Laeken (rel) 11 Sep 1941 (civ) 6 Dec 1941

Mary Lilian Baels, cr Pss de Rethy (London 28 Nov 1916-

Domaine d'Argenteuil, Waterloo 7 Jun 2002)

1d) Joséphine Charlotte Ingeborg Elisabeth Maria Josepha Margarethe

Astrid (Brussels 11 Oct 1927-Fischbach 10 Jan 2005); m.Luxemburg

9 Apr 1953 Jean, Grand Duke of Luxemburg (b.Schloß Berg 5 Jan 1921)

 

   

 

2d) BAUDOUIN Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustav,

King of the Belgians 1951 (Château de Stuyvenberg, Brussels

7 Sep 1930-Motril, Spain 31 Jul 1993); m.Brussels 15 Dec 1960

Doña Fabiola Mora y Aragón (b.Madrid 11 Jun 1928)

 

   

 

3d) ALBERT II Felix Humbert Theodor Christian Eugène Marie,

King of the Belgians, b.Château de Stuyvenberg, Brussels 6 Jun 1934;

m.Brussels 2nd July 1959 Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria (b.Forte dei

Marmi 11 Sep 1937)

 

   
1e) Philippe Leopold Louis Marie, Duke of Brabant,

b.Château de Belvédère, nr Laeken 15 Apr 1960; m.

Brussels 4 Dec 1999 Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine

 

d'Udekem d'Acoz

(b.Uccle 20 Jan 1973)

1f) ElisabethThérèse Marie Hélène

(b.Anderlecht 25 Oct 2001)

2f) Gabriel Baudouin Charles Marie

(b.Anderlecht 20 Aug 2003)

3f) Emmanuel Léopold Guillaume François

Marie (b.Anderlecht 4 Oct 2005)

2e) Astrid Josephine-Charlotte Fabrizia Elisabeth Paola

Marie, b.Château de Belvédère 5 Jun 1962; m.Brussels 22 Sep

1984 Lorenz Archduke of Austria, cr Pr of Belgium 10 Nov 1995

(b.Boulogne-sur-Seine 16 Dec 1955); their children bear by Royal

Decree 2 Dec 1991 the title Prince[ss] of Belgium

in addition to their Austrian titles

1f) Amadeo Maria Josef Carl Pierre Philippe Paola

Marcus d'Aviano, Archduke of Austria[-Este] & Pr

of Belgium, b.Woluwe St.Lambert 21 Feb 1986

2f) Maria Laura Zita Beatrix Gerhard, Archduchess

of Austria[-Este] & Pss of Belgium, b.

Woluwe St.Lambert 26 Aug 1988

3f) Joachim Karl-Maria Nikolaus Isabelle Marcus

d`Aviano, Archduke of Austria[-Este] & Pr of

Belgium, b.Woluwe-St.Lambert 9 Dec 1991

4f) Luisa Maria Anna Martine Pilar, Archduchess of Austria

[-Este] & Pss of Belgium, b.Woluwe-St.Lambert 11 Oct 1995

5f) Laetitia Maria Nora Anna Joachim Zita,

 Archduchess of Austria[-Este] & Pss of

Belgium, b.Brussels 23 Apr 2003

3e) Laurent Benoit Baudouin Marie, b.Château

de Belvédère 19 Oct 1963; m.Brussels 12 Apr 2003

Claire Louise Coombs (b.Bath 18 Jan 1974)

1f) Louise Sophie Mary (b.Woluwé

-Saint-Lambert 6 Feb 2004)

2f) Nicolas Casimir Marie (b. Woluwé

-Saint-Lambert 13 Dec 2005)

3f) Aymeric Auguste Marie (b. Woluwé

-Saint-Lambert 13 Dec 2005)

4d) Alexandre Emanuel Henry Albert Marie Leopold,

b.Laeken 18 Jul 1942; m.Deben, Suffolk 14 Mar 1991

Léa Inga Dora Wolman (b.Etterbeek 2 Dec 1951)

5d) Marie-Christine Daphné Astrid Elisabeth Léopoldine,

b.Laeken 6 Feb 1951; m.1st Coral Gables, Florida 23 May 1981

(div 1981) Paul Druker (b.Montreal 1938); m.2d Westwood,

California 28 Sep 1989 Jean-Paul Gourgues (b.Bordeaux)

6d) Marie-Esmeralda Adelaide Lilian Anna Léopoldine,

b.Laeken 30 Sep 1956; m.London 4 Apr 1998 Salvador

Moncada (b.Tegucigalpa, Honduras 3 Dec 1944)

1e) Alexandra Leopoldine

Moncada, b.London 4 Aug 1998

2e) Leopoldo Moncada,

b.London 21 May 2001

2c) Charles Théodore Henri Antoine Meinrad, Ct of Flanders,

Regent 1944-1950 (Brussels 10 Oct 1903-Ostende 1 Jun 1983; in

Paris on 14 Sep 1977 he went through a religious ceremony

blessing his union with one Jacqueline Peyrebrune

(b.La Réole 16 Feb 1921

3c) Marie-José Charlotte Sophie Amélie Henriette Gabrielle

(Ostende 4 Aug 1906-Geneva 27 Jan 2001); m.Rome 8 Jan 1930

King Umberto II of Italy (Racconigi 15 Sep 1904-Geneva 18 Mar 1983)

4a) Maria Charlotte Amélie Auguste Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine

(Laeken 7 Jun 1840-Château de Bouchout, Belgium 19 Jan 1927); m. Brussels

27 Jul 1857 Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, Emperor of Mexico 1864-7

(Vienna 6 Jul 1832-Queretaro, Mexico 19 Jun 1867)

 

         

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