Balthazar Napoleon IV de Bourbon
Balthazar Napoleon IV de Bourbon is the eldest Scion or Dauphin from the Indian Branch of the Family of The House of Bourbon, The "Bourbons of India". The Family is also known as "Bourbon-Bhopal", a name derived from the City of Bhopal in central India where their last few generations have resided and worked in the Pre-Indipendence of India Bhopal State Royal Court. Balthazar Napoleon IV de Bourbon, the current Head of the family is a lawyer and a part-time farmer by profession, he was born on 29 July 1958. He is married to Elisha Pacheco and has three children: Frederick, Michelle, and Adrian. His mission is to preserve for history the political, cultural and religious contribution of the Bourbons of India in the subcontinent and prevent this important contribution from being relegated to a footnote in history books.[1]
On May 22, 2013, the Ambassador of France to India visited Bhopal and met with Balthazar of Bourbon at a function and in a statement declared, "It is extraordinary to have a Bourbon here today!"[2][3]
The "Bourbons of India" from Bhopal claim to be legitimate descendants of the House of Bourbon, descended from Jean Philippe de Bourbon, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, an exiled French noble who served in Mughal Emperor Akbar's court.
Claim to The Throne of France
As per the latest research carried out by Prince Michael of Greece and incorporated in his historical novel, Le Rajah Bourbon (Michel de Grèce 2007), whose publication spurred a renewed interest in this claim to the French throne, Balthazar Napoleon lV de Bourbon from India is the eldest in line to the French Throne.[4][5][6][7]
DNA Test to prove French Royal Kinship
Prince Michael of Greece says he would be willing to organize a DNA test to verify De Bourbon's claim of kinship, and Balthazar Napoleon IV de Bourbon of India says he would gladly submit to it.[8]
Balthazar has said that he is ready to undergo a DNA test to prove his lineage but wants to know if the original samples will be available for matching since there were frequent inter-marriages among the European royal families.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ Bourbon-Bhopal, The Royal "House of Bourbon" in India Official Website
- ↑ http://www.ambafrance-in.org/April-2013-Note-from-the-Consul
- ↑ http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-22/bhopal/37936002_1_balthazar-napoleon-baroque-music-laxmikant-sharma
- ↑ Found in India the last king of France, 2 March 2007, The Guardian
- ↑ The next King of France? An Indian!, 21 August 2007, Manchester Evening News
- ↑ Bourbon of Indian vintage, 10 Jan. 2008, Los Angeles Times
- ↑ The lost Bourbon, in India, 4 March 2007, The Hindu
- ↑ Bourbon of Indian vintage, 10 Jan. 2008, Los Angeles Times
- ↑ Heir to France's Bourbon rulers loves India, 7 March 2007, DNA India
Bibliography
- "Indian lays claim to "Duke of France" title". Agence France-Presse. 15 April 2007. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.
- Calle, Marie-France (14 October 2007). "Un Indien serait en tête des héritiers au trône de France". Le Figaro (in French). France.
- Chrisafis, Angelique (3 March 2007). "Found in India: the last king of France". The Guardian. UK.
- Decloitre, Andre (2010). "Généalogie de la Maison Royale de France – Troisième branche: les Bourbons". Généalogies Royales et Princières (in French).
- "The Dublin review, Part 2". Burns and Oates. 1887.
- Revise, Nicolas (12 April 2007). "Balthazar Napoléon III, le Bourbon "made in India" se rêve en duc de France". Aujourd'hui l'Inde (in French). Agence France-Presse.
- Rousselet, Louis; Buckle, Charles Randolph (1875). India and its native princes: travels in Central India and in the presidencies of Bombay and Bengal (reprinted Asian Educational Services, 2005 ed.). London: Chapman & Hall. ISBN 978-81-206-1887-9.
- Begam, Sultan Jahan (1918). Hayat-i-Qudsi: Life of the Nawab Gauhar Begum alias The Nawab Begum Qudsia of Bhopal. W. S. Davis, translator. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- "Lost in France, found in India". The Telegraph. Kolkota, India. 5 March 2007a.
- Tharoor, Ishaan (8 March 2007). "The Bourbon of Bhopal". TIME.
- "France's king without a crown in India". The Taipei Times. Agence France-Presse. 10 January 2006a.
- Seth, Mesrovb Jacob (1937). "Prince John Philip Bourbon at the Court of the Great Mogul". Armenians in India: from the earliest times to the present day (republished Asian Educational Services, 1992 ed.). Calcutta. ISBN 978-81-206-0812-2.
- Tikekar, Aroon (1992). The Kincaids, two generations of a British family in the Indian civil service. Promilla & Co. ISBN 978-81-85002-13-2.
- van Kerrebrouck, Patrick (2004). La maison de Bourbon: 1256–2004. Nouvelle histoire généalogique de l'auguste maison de France (in French). 4 (2nd ed.). ISBN 978-2-9501509-5-0.
Further reading
Fiction
- Michel de Grèce (March 2007). Le Rajah Bourbon. Jean-Claude Lattès. ISBN 978-2-7096-2922-5.
Non-fiction
- d'Orcet, Claude Sosthène Grasset (July 1892). "Les Bourbons des Indes". La Revue britannique (in French): 5–30.
- de Bourbon, Salvadore (2003). Lucien Jailloux, ed. Les Bourbons de l'Inde: souvenirs de Salvadore de Bourbon. Mickaël Le Guen, translator. Christian. ISBN 978-2-86496-095-9.
- Desai, Bharat (15 March 1996). "House of the Bourbons: A Branch of the former French royal family lives with its glorious past and obscure present". India Today. 21 (1). Thomson Living Media India Ltd. pp. 13 et seq.
- de Warren, Raoul; de Lestrange, Aymon (1990). Les prétendants au trône de France (in French). L'Herne. pp. 135–136. ISBN 978-2-85197-281-1.
- Diver, Katherine H.; Diver, Maud (1942). "Bhopal". Royal India: a descriptive and historical study of India's fifteen principal states and their rulers (republished by Ayer Publishing, 1971 ed.). Duell, Sloan, and Pearce. ISBN 978-0-8369-2152-6.
- Ferrand, Gabriel (Septembre 1905–Octobre 1905) [1905]. "Les Bourbons de l'Inde". Revue de Paris (in French): 189–202. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - Hamid, Razia; Sultan, Rafat (1986). "Bourbons". Nuqoosh-e-Bhopal. Bhopal: Babul Uloom.
- Khan, Shaharyar M. (2000). "The Bhopal Bourbons". The begums of Bhopal: a dynasty of women rulers in Raj India. I.B.Tauris. pp. 60–66. ISBN 978-1-86064-528-0.
- Kincaid, Charles Augustus (1908). The Tale of the Tulsi Plant and Other Stories. Bombay: The Times of India Office.
- Kincaid, Charles Augustus (1 September 1946). "Bourbons of Bhopal". Illustrated Weekly of India.
- Kincaid, William (1883). Historical Sketch of The Indian Branch of The Bourbon Family : together with a genealogical table from the time that the founder, John Philip Bourbon, landed in India. Sehore.
- Also published as: Kincaid, William (January 1887). "The Indian Bourbons". Asiatic Quarterly Review: 164–177.
- Malcolm, John (1824). A memoir of Central India. II. London: Kingsbury, Parbury & Aleen.
- Maclagan, Edward (1932). "The Indian Bourbons". The Jesuits and the Great Mogul. Burns, Oates & Washbourne.
- Rousselet, Louis (1879). Les royaumes de l'Inde (in French). Paris: Hachette. pp. 139–143.
- Rousselet, Louis (1882). Le Fils du connétable (in French). Paris: Hachette.
External links
- Bourbon-Bhopal, The Royal "House of Bourbon" in India Official Website
- GENEALOGY: The Family Tree of the Bourbons of India and the Bourbons of France
- Marek, Miroslav. "Jean Philippe, a courtier of the khan, 1525". Genealogy.EU.
- Found in India the last king of France, 2 March 2007, The Guardian
- The next King of France? An Indian!, 21 August 2007, Manchester Evening News
- Bourbon of Indian vintage, 10 Jan. 2008, Los Angeles Times
Genealogies
- http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/1998-02/0886979312
- Marek, Miroslav. "capet/capet37.html". Genealogy.EU.
- http://genroy.free.fr/bourbon.html