Infante Alvaro, Duke of Galliera

Infante Alvaro

Infante Alvaro de Orleans in his father's arm.
Duke of Galliera
Tenure 6 August 1975 – 22 August 1997
Predecessor Infante Alfonso
Successor Don Alfonso
Spouse Carla Parodi Delfino (1974-
Issue
  • Doña Gerarda de Orléans-Borbón y Parodi Delfino
    *Don Alonso de Orléans-Borbón y Parodi Delfino
    *Doña Beatriz de Orléans-Borbón y Parodi Delfino
    *Don Alvaro Jaime de Orléans-Borbón y Parodi Delfino
Full name
Alvaro Antonio Fernando Carlos Felipe de Orleans y Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha
House Orléans-Galliera
Father Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera
Mother Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Born 20 April 1910
Coburg
Died 22 August 1997 (aged 87)
Monte Carlo
Religion Roman Catholicism

Álvaro Antonio Fernando Carlos Felipe de Orleans y Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha, Prince of the Royal House of France, Duke of Galliera (20 April 1910 – 22 August 1997) was the 6th Duke of Galliera.

He was born at Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German Empire. The first son of Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera (elder son of Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera and of Infanta Eulalia of Spain) and Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (youngest daughter of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia).[1]

Prince Alvaro, succeeded to the title of Duke of Galliera on 14 July 1937.[2] He died at the age of 87, making him the last surviving child of Infante Alfonso and Princess Beatrice, as well the last surviving grandchild of Prince Alfred and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna.

As his son Alonso died in 1975 at the age of 34, his grandson Alfonso inherited the Dukedom of Galliera

Marriage and family

Prince Alvaro married Carla Parodi-Delfino (born 13 December 1909 in Milan, Italy, died 27 July 2000 in Sanlúcar, Spain), daughter of Leopoldo Girolamo Parodi-Delfino, Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, and Lucie Henny, on 10 July 1937 at Rome, Italy.[3]

They had four children:

Alvaro-Jaime also has one daughter from his second marriage:

Ancestry

Notes and sources

  1. The Peerage – Antonio, 6th Duke of Galliera
  2. Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants, page 204.
  3. Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), page 200. Hereinafter cited as Queen Victoria's Descendants.
Infante Alvaro, Duke of Galliera
Cadet branch of the House of Bourbon
Born: 20 April 1910 Died: 22 August 1997
Italian nobility
Preceded by
Infante Alfonso
Duke of Galliera
14 July 1937 – 2 June 1946
Succeeded by
Republic declared
Titles in pretence
Loss of title
 TITULAR 
Duke of Galliera
2 June 1946 – 22 August 1997
Reason for succession failure:
Italian nobility titles abolished
Succeeded by
Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón