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]
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: