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Henri, Count of Chambord
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Chambord, Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné, comte de (äNrē' shärl fĕrdēnäN' märē' dyödônā' kôNt də shäNbôr'), 1820-83, Bourbon claimant to the French throne, posthumous son of Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry. His original title was duke of Bordeaux. His grandfather, Charles X, abdicated in his favor during the Revolution of 1830, and he is known to the legitimists as Henry V, although he never held the throne. He accompanied Charles into exile and spent most of the rest of his life at Frohsdorf, Austria. In 1832 his mother, Caroline de Berry, unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Louis Philippe. Efforts to reconcile his claims with those of the Orleanist pretender, Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans (see under Orléans, family), after the February Revolution of 1848, met with little success. In 1871, after the fall of the Second Empire, Chambord's prospects improved, and in 1873 the Orleanist pretender relinquished his claims in Chambord's favor. However, his stubborn adherence to the Bourbon flag in preference to the national flag, destroyed his chance of recognition. He died without issue, and his claims passed to the house of Bourbon-Orléans.
Bibliography
See biography by M. L. Brown, Jr. (1967).
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| Henry V | |
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| King of France and Navarre (disputed) | |
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| Reign In pretence |
2 August 1830 – 9 August 1830 3 June 1844 – 24 August 1883 |
| Coronation | Uncrowned |
| Predecessor | Louis XIX; Legitimist claimant: Juan, Count of Montizón |
| Spouse | Maria Theresia of Austria-Este |
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| Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné de Bourbon | |
| Father | Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry |
| Mother | Caroline of the Two Sicilies |
| Born | 29 September 1820 Tuileries Palace, Paris |
| Died | 24 August 1883 Frohsdorf, Austrian Empire |
| Burial | Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady, Castagnavizza, Görz, Austria (now Nova Gorica, Slovenia) |
Henri V of France and Navarre (Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois de France – 29 September 1820 – 24 August 1883), best known by his title comte de Chambord was Duke of Bordeaux and Count of Chambord, was disputedly King of France and Navarre from 2–9 August 1830 and afterwards the Legitimist pretender to the throne of France from 1844 to 1883.
Henri was the posthumous son of Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry, younger son of Charles X of France, by his wife, Princess Caroline Ferdinande Louise of the Two Sicilies, daughter of Francis I of the Two Sicilies. As the grandson of the king, Henri was a Petit-Fils de France.
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Birth and youth
He was born 29 September 1820, in the pavillon de Marsan, part of the Tuileries Palace which still survives in the Louvre in Paris. Henri's father, the duc de Berry, had been assassinated seven months before his birth. At the actual moment of Henri's birth, no member of the French court was present in the room; this enabled the supporters of the duc d'Orléans to later claim that Henri was not in fact a French prince.[citation needed]
At birth, Henri was given the title of duc de Bordeaux. Because of his posthumous birth when the senior line of the Bourbon dynasty appeared about to become extinct, he was popularly known as the Dieudonné or "God-given" baby. Royalists called him "the miracle child".
On 2 August 1830, in response to the July Revolution, Henri's grandfather Charles X abdicated, and twenty minutes later Charles' elder son the Dauphin also abdicated in favor of the young duc de Bordeaux. Henri was immediately proclaimed Henri V, King of France and Navarre[citation needed]. However, after a fictive reign of only seven days, the National Assembly decreed that the throne should pass to the Regent, his distant cousin, the duc d'Orléans, who became Louis-Philippe, King of the French on 9 August.
Exile
Henri and his family left France and went into exile, 16 August 1830. While some French monarchists recognized him as their sovereign, others disputed the validity of the abdications of his grandfather and uncle. Still others recognised the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe. With the death of his grandfather in 1836, and his uncle in 1844, Henri became the genealogically senior claimant to the French throne. His supporters were called Legitimists to distinguish them from the Orléanists, the supporters of the family of Louis-Philippe.
Henri, who preferred the "courtesy" title of comte de Chambord (from the château de Chambord, which had been presented to him by the nation, and which was the only significant piece of personal property he was allowed to retain ownership of upon his exile), continued to make his claim throughout the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe, the Second Republic, and the Second Empire of Napoléon III. In November 1846 the comte de Chambord married his second cousin Archduchess Marie Thérèse of Austria-Este, daughter of Duke Francis IV of Modena and Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy. Her maternal grandparents were Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia and Maria Theresa of Austria-Este; the couple had no children.
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In the early 1870s, as the Second Empire collapsed following its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War at the battle of Sedan, on 1 September 1870, the royalists became a majority in the National Assembly. The Orléanists agreed to support the comte de Chambord's claim to the throne, with the hope that at his death he would be succeeded by their own claimant, Count of Paris, Philippe d'Orléans. Henri was then pretender for both legitimists and Orléanists and the restoration of Monarchy in France seemed to be a close possibility. However, Henri insisted that he would only accept the crown on condition that France abandon its tricolour flag and return to the use of the white fleur-de-lis flag. Even a compromise, whereby the fleur-de-lis would be the new king's personal standard, and the tricolour would remain the national flag, was rejected.
Defeat
A temporary Third Republic was established, to wait for Henri's death and his replacement by the more liberal comte de Paris. But by the time this occurred in 1883, public opinion had swung behind the Republic as the form of government which, in the words of the former President Adolphe Thiers, "divides us least". Thus, Henri could be mockingly hailed by republicans such as Georges Clemenceau as "the French Washington" — the one man without whom the Republic could not have been founded.
Henri died 24 August 1883 at his residence in Frohsdorf, Austria, aged 62. He was buried in his grandfather Charles X's crypt in the church of the Franciscan Kostanjevica Monastery in Gorizia, then Austria, now in Slovenian city of Nova Gorica.
In terms of pretenders to the French throne, at his death, Henri's wife and some of his supporters accepted the senior male of the House of Bourbon, Henri's distant cousin, Juan, Count of Montizón, who also happened to be married to her sister, as the rightful heir to the Kingdoms of France and Navarre as the Legitimiste claimant. Other supporters of Henri transferred their allegiance to the Orléanist claimant, Philippe, comte de Paris. Regardless of the ongoing controversy, Henri's death meant that seniority of the dynasty passed to members of the Spanish branch, including the Legitimist pretenders who take the ducal title of Anjou. In terms of the order of seniority, the Spanish branch was followed by the Italian branches of Two Sicilies and Parma (from which another junior cadet Luxembourgian branch would be derived in the 20th century), then by the French branch of Orléans and finally by the Brazilian branch of Braganza.
His personal property, including the château de Chambord, was left to his late sister's son Robert I, Duke of Parma.
Ancestors
See also
References
- Philippe Delorme, Henri comte de Chambord, Journal (1846-1883), Carnets inédits, Oeil-FX de Guibert, 2009.
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Henri, Count of Chambord
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King of France and Navarre (disputed) 2 – 9 August 1830 |
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| Preceded by Louis XIX |
— TITULAR — King of France and Navarre Legitimist pretender to the French throne 3 June 1844 – 24 August 1883 Reason for succession failure: July Revolution |
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