Ferdinand of Orleans (1884-1924)
Ferdinand François Philippe Marie Laurent of Orleans , which carried the title of courtesy of “duke of Montpensier” (1884 - 1924), is downward of the king of the French Louis-Philippe I {{er}} and a French explorer.
Family
Ferdinand of Orleans is the son junior by Philippe of Orleans (1838-1894), “count de Paris” and applicant orleanist with the throne of France (like “Philippe VII”), and of his wife and German cousin Marie-Isabelle of Orleans - Montpensier (1848-1919), infante of Spain.
In 1921, Ferdinand of Orleans marries, with Randan, Marie-Isabelle Gonzalez de Olaneta E Ibarreta (1897-1958), 3rd marchioness of Valdeterrazzo and large of Spain to the castle of Randan. The marriage is without child.
Biography
Like his/her brother the duke Philippe of Orleans (1869-1926) and his cousin Henri of Orleans - Chartres (1867-1901), Ferdinand of Orleans, is an explorer and a hunter of first order. In its young age, it thus carries out several forwardings at the Me of Indo-China, which is worth to him to be the last of the members of the house of Orleans to receive the Légion of honor of alive sound.
The day before the First World War, the European powers thinks one moment to make of Ferdinand of Orleans the king whom they will install on the throne of Albania. However the prince refuses, conscious that his/her older brother - virtual “the king of the French” “Philippe VIII” - does not have a child and that it will have any probably never. It is thus the prince Guillaume de Wied (1876-1945) who is selected like sovereign.
In 1921, Ferdinand of Orleans, 37 years old, marries the 3rd marchioness of Valdeterrazzo in its Château of Randan. It is an significant event since Orleans hope that the marriage will produce the next heir orleanist to the throne of France. Unfortunately, the couple does not have a child and the succession orleanist passes to the brother-in-law of Ferdinand of Orleans, Jean of Orleans (1874-1940), “duke of Own way” (it Jean III orleanists).
External bond
Extract of the refusal of the prince to go up on the throne of Albania (completely at the foot of the page)
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