Chantal de Chevron-Villette

Chantal
Duchess of Castro
Princess of Bourbon-Sicily
Spouse Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro
Issue Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Sicily
Princess Anne of Bourbon-Sicily
Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro
Full name
French: Chantal Françoise Marie Camille
House House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Father Joseph-Pierre de Chevron-Villette
Mother Marie de Colbert
Born 10 January 1925
Le Cannet-des-Maures, France
Died 24 May 2005 (aged 80)
Suresnes, France
Religion Roman Catholic

Chantal Françoise Marie Camille de Chevron-Villette (10 January 1925 in Le Cannet-des-Maures, France 24 May 2005 in Suresnes, France) was the wife of Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro, a Bourbon prince and claimant to headship of the Royal House of the Two Sicilies, which was deposed in 1860.[1]

Family

Chantal was the daughter of Joseph-Pierre de Chevron-Villette, member of a French comital family, and his wife, Marie de Colbert.[1]

Marriage and issue

Chantal married Prince Ferdinand, only son of Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro and his wife Countess Maria Carolina Zamoyska, on 23 July 1949 in Giez.[1] Chantal and Ferdinand had three children:[1]

∞ Prince Charles Napoléon on 19 December 1978 in Paris; divorced in 1989[1]
  • Princess Caroline Marie-Constance Napoléon (born 24 October 1980)
  • Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon (born 11 July 1986)
∞ Jacques Cochin on 9 September 1977 in Roquebrune-sur-Argens
  • Nicolas Cochin (born 21 January 1979)
  • Dorothée Cochin (born 10 June 1985)
Camilla Crociani on 31 October 1998 in Monte Carlo
  • Princess Maria-Carolina of Bourbon-Sicily (born 23 June 2003)
  • Princess Maria Chiara of Bourbon-Sicily (born 1 January 2005)

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

Honours

Ancestry

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser, Band XIV. "Bourbon". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1991, pp. 8, 10. ISBN 3-7980-0700-4
Chantal de Chevron-Villette
10 January
Born: 1925 24 May
Italian nobility
Preceded by
Countess Maria Carolina Zamoyska
Duchess of Castro
1966 – 24 May 2005
Succeeded by
Camilla Crociani
Titles in pretence
Preceded by
Maria Carolina Zamoyska
 TITULAR 
Queen consort of the Two Sicilies
1966 – 24 May 2005
Reason for succession failure:
Italian Unification under the House of Savoy
Succeeded by
Camilla Crociani