Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria

Infanta Alicia
Duchess of Calabria
Countess of Caserta
Born (1917-11-13)13 November 1917
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died 28 March 2017(2017-03-28) (aged 99)[1][2]
Madrid, Spain
Burial Royal Pantheon of Glashütten, Mönichkirchen[3]
Spouse Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria
Issue Princess Teresa María
Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria
Princess Inés María
Full name
Alicia Maria Teresa Francesca Luisa Pia Anna Valeria
House Bourbon-Parma (by birth)
Bourbon-Two Sicilies (by marriage)
Father Elias, Duke of Parma
Mother Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria
Religion Roman Catholic

Infanta Alicia of Spain, Duchess of Calabria[4] (née: Princess of Bourbon-Parma; given names: Alicia Maria Teresa Francesca Luisa Pia Anna Valeria; 13 November 1917 28 March 2017)[4] was a daughter of Elias, Duke of Parma, and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria.[4] Alicia was Duchess of Calabria through her marriage to Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria (1901–1964).[4] She bore the title of Infanta of Spain from 1936,[5] and took part in some of the activities that the Spanish Royal Family organises.[6] She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, and died in Madrid, Spain.[4]

Marriage and issue

Alicia married Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria (30 November 1901 3 February 1964), her second cousin and the eldest child and son of Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and his wife Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, on 16 April 1936 in Vienna, Austria.[4] Alicia and Alfonso had three children:[4]

Genealogy

Alicia was the heir general of the kings of Navarre, as well as of Edward the Confessor and David I of Scotland.[7] If the marriage of Maria Beatrice of Savoy to her uncle is deemed illegal, then Alicia, as heir of Maria Beatrice's next sister, would have been the Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, France and Ireland. English and Scots law in 1688 (after which point Jacobites must admit it to be static, as changes would require the approval of the monarch, who they hold is not the person actually on the throne), however, stated that a marriage contracted outside of the realms was not challenged if it was legal in its own land; thus, since Maria Beatrice and her mother's brother Francis IV, Duke of Modena, received the pope's consent to marry, Alicia was not considered a claimant by the Jacobites.[8]

Titles and honours

Arms

Ancestry

References

  1. Vanitatis
  2. http://www.abc.es/espana/casa-real/abci-fallece-infanta-dona-alicia-borbon-parma-juan-carlos-99-anos-edad-201703281458_noticia.html
  3. Casa Real de Navarra
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Darryl Lundy (10 May 2003). "Alice Maria di Borbone, Principessa di Parma". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 2008-10-02. External link in |publisher= (help)
  5. "Genealogy of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Real Casa de Borbón de las Dos Sicilias website". Borbone-due-sicilie.org. Retrieved 2012-05-18.
  6. Casa Real
  7. "Real casa de Borbón de las Dos Sicilias". Borbone-due-sicilie.org. Retrieved 2012-05-18.
  8. "The Infanta Alicia of Spain". Jacobite.ca. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
  9. Geneall
  10. Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (2008). "Membership of the Constantinian Order". Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2008-10-13. External link in |publisher= (help)
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria
Cadet branch of the House of Bourbon
Born: 13 November 1917 Died: 28 March 2017
Italian nobility
Preceded by
Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria
Duchess consort of Calabria
7 January 1960 – 12 May 1965
Succeeded by
Princess Anne of Orleáns
Titles in pretence
Preceded by
Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria
 TITULAR 
Queen consort of the Two Sicilies
7 January 1960 – 12 May 1965
Reason for succession failure:
Italian Unification under the House of Savoy
Succeeded by
Princess Anne of Orleáns
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