Prince Jean, Duke of Guise explained

Jean d'Orléans
Duke of Guise
Succession:Head of the House of Orléans
Reign:28 March 1926 – 25 August 1940
Reign-Type:Tenure
Predecessor:Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans
Successor:Henri, Count of Paris
Birth Date:4 September 1874
Birth Place:Paris, France
Death Place:Larache, Morocco, Spain
Full Name:Jean Pierre Clément Marie d'Orléans
Father:Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres
Mother:Princess Françoise of Orléans
Issue:Isabelle, Princess Pierre Murat
Françoise, Princess Christopher of Greece and Denmark
Princess Anne, Duchess of Aosta
Prince Henri, Count of Paris
House:Orléans
Religion:Roman Catholic
Signature:Jean_duke_of_guise_1900_signature.png

Prince Jean of Orléans, Duke of Guise (Jean Pierre Clément Marie; 4 September 1874  - 25 August 1940), was the third son and youngest child of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840–1910), grandson of Prince Ferdinand Philippe and great-grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. His mother was Françoise of Orléans, daughter of François, Prince of Joinville, and Princess Francisca of Brazil. He was the Orléanist pretender to the throne of France as Jean III.

Biography

In 1926 at the death of his cousin and brother-in-law Philippe, Duke of Orléans, claimant to the defunct throne of France as "Philip VIII", Jean was recognised by his Orléanist supporters as titular king of France with the name "Jean III".

Jean was an amateur historian and archeologist, who lived with his family in a large farm near Rabat, Morocco. Following his "ascension" as Orléanist pretender, he and his eldest son were legally forbidden from ever entering France again, due to an 1886 edict which condemned the heads of Bourbon & Bonaparte dynasties, as well as their heirs apparent, to exile.[1]

Jean died in Larache, Morocco, in 1940. He was succeeded as Orléanist claimant to the defunct French throne by his only son, Henri d' Orléans, Count of Paris.

Marriage and issue

In 1899, Jean married his first cousin, Isabelle d'Orléans (1878–1961). She was the younger sister of Philip VIII, and the daughter of Philip VII and Marie Isabelle d'Orléans.

They had four children:

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Fenyvesi, Charles. Splendor in Exile: The Ex-Majesties of Europe. New Republic Books. 1979. 123. 978-0915220557.
  2. Web site: ADIEU MADAME. Angelfire. 7 November 2012.