Marco de Hohenlohe-Langenburg explained

Prince Marco of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Honorific Prefix:His Serene Highness
Grandee of Spain
Succession:Duke of Medinaceli
Reign:18 August 2013 – 19 August 2016
Reign-Type:Reign
Predecessor:Victoria Fernández de Córdoba
Successor:Princess Victoria of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Birth Place:Madrid, Francoist Spain
Birth Date:8 March 1962
Death Place:Seville, Spain
Place Of Burial:Cemetery of Saint Barnabas,
Marbella, Spain
House:Hohenlohe-Langenburg (agnatic)
Medinaceli (cognatic)
Father:Prince Max of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Mother:Ana Luisa de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba
Issue:Princess Victoria Elisabeth
Prince Alexander Gonzalo
Religion:Roman Catholicism

Prince Marco de Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 19th Duke of Medinaceli, GE (German: Marco Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg; Spanish; Castilian: Marco de Hohenlohe-Langenburg y Medina; 8 March 1962 – 19 August 2016), was a Spanish nobleman who was head of the ducal house of Medinaceli and a dynast of the princely house of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.[1]

Life and family

Prince Marco was born in Madrid, Spain, on 8 March 1962. He was the eldest son of Prince Max of Hohenlohe-Langenburg by his then wife Ana Luisa de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, 12th Marquise of Navahermosa and 10th Countess of Ofalia (1940−2012), who was the eldest child of Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli (1917–2013).

Prince Marco's mother, the previous heiress to the dukedom of Medinaceli, predeceased her mother in 2012. He succeeded as duke when his grandmother, the 18th Duchess of Medinaceli, died in 2013.[2] [3] He preserved his family's cultural heritage as director of the Fundación Medinaceli.

In 1996, he married a German citizen, Sandra Schmidt-Polex, by whom he had two children:

They divorced in 2004.[5] [6]

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.fundacionmedinaceli.org/casaducal/fichaindividuo.aspx?id=269 Fundación Medinaceli
  2. http://boe.es/boe/dias/2014/06/02/pdfs/BOE-B-2014-19685.pdf BOE: solicitud de sucesión en el título de Duque de Medinaceli, con Grandeza de España
  3. http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2014/09/25/pdfs/BOE-A-2014-9725.pdf Boletín Oficial del Estado
  4. Web site: Catalá. Rafael. Rafael Catalá. Documento BOE-A-2017-5668. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 23 April 2018. Madrid. Spanish. 8 May 2017.
  5. http://heirsofeurope.blogspot.com.es/2010/02/medinaceli.html The Heirs of Europe: Medinaceli
  6. http://www.elmundo.es/loc/2014/07/05/53b69e8f22601dfd528b4586.html El duque de Medinaceli, sangre alemana para el título más español