Prince Gabriel | |
Full Name: | Italian: Gabriele Maria Giuseppe Carlo Ignazio Antonio Alfonso Pietro Giovanni Gerardo di Majella et Omni Sancti |
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Issue: | Prince Antoine Prince Jean Princess Maria Margarita Princess Marie Immaculata Prince Casimir |
House: | House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies |
Father: | Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta |
Mother: | Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies |
Birth Date: | 11 January 1897 |
Birth Place: | Cannes, France |
Death Place: | Itu, Brazil |
Prince Gabriele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (Gabriele Maria Giuseppe Carlo Ignazio Antonio Alfonso Pietro Giovanni Gerardo di Majella et Omni Sancti; 11 January 1897, Cannes, France - 22 October 1975, Itu, Brazil,) was a prince of the deposed dynasty which ruled the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Gabriel was the twelfth child and youngest son of Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, and his wife, Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Nicknamed Onga within his family circle, he grew up having little contact with either of the two elder brothers, Carlo (1870-1949) and Ranieri (1883-1973), whose rival claims for headship of the family and its dynastic orders "would rend loyalties the House of Bourbon-Sicily asunder into the 21st century".[1]
Gabriel married firstly Princess Malgorzata Izabella Czartoryska, daughter of Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski and his wife Countess Maria Ludwika Krasińska, on 25 August 1927 in Paris. The couple had one child before Malgorzata died in Cannes on 8 March 1929:
wed Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (born 2 February 1933 in Stuttgart; died 29 January 2022) on 18 July 1958 in Altshausen, and had issue:
wed Countess Alexandra of Schönborn-Wiesentheid (born 2 June 1967 in Zürich), on 2 June 2000 in Geneva, and had issue:
wed Andreas Baumbach (born 30 April 1963 in Tübingen), on 6 May 1988 in Tübingen
∞ Count Carl Fredrik Creutz (born 11 November 1971), on 2 August 2003 in Helsinki, and had issue.
Gabriel married, secondly, Princess Cecylia Lubomirska, daughter of Prince Kasimierz Lubomirski and his wife Countess Maria Theresia Granow-Wodicka, on 15 September 1932 in Kraków. Gabriel and Cecylia had four children:
wed Luis Gonzaga Maldonado y Gordon (born 17 November 1932 in Madrid), on 11 June 1962 in Jerez de la Frontera
wed Miguel García de Saéz y Tellecea (6 September 1921 - 12 March 1982), on 29 June 1970 in Sant Josep de sa Talaia; divorced in 1979
wed Princess Maria Cristina of Savoy-Aosta (12 September 1933 in Miramare - 18 November 2023 in Sao Paulo), on 29 January 1967 in Jacarezinho
wed firstly, Christine Apovian (born 20 May 1969) on 22 October 1998 in São Paulo, subsequently divorced
wed secondly, Maria da Glória Ganem Rubião
wed Count Rodolphe de Causans (born 22 January 1973) civilly on 18 August 2005 in Les Verchers-sur-Layon, religiously on 19 September 2005 in Turin, and had issue.
In addition to the princely status deriving from membership in the historical House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, the title of Principe de Borbón and the style of Royal Highness were specifically accorded to Gabriel de Borbón and to those of his children born of marriage contracted with the Spanish sovereign's authorization, by a Spanish royal decree issued 19 August 1920.[2]
Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Knight of the Order of Saint Januarius