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About: Robert I, Duke of Parma. Robert I (Italian: Roberto Carlo Luigi Maria; 9 July 1848 – 16 November 1907) was the last sovereign Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1854 until 1859, when the duchy was annexed to Sardinia-Piedmont during the Risorgimento. He was a member of the House of Bourbon-Parma and descended from Philip, Duke of Parma ...
Robert I, Duke of Parma. X. Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma. Categories: Dukes in Italy. Duchy of Parma. House of Bourbon-Parma.
Mar 1, 2023 · Knights of the Golden Fleece. Roberto (given name) House of Bourbon-Parma. Dukes of Parma and Piacenza. Prince of Piacenza. Princes of Bourbon-Parma. Recipients of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (Parma) Grand Masters of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George.
- Early Life
- Marriage
- Wife of The Heir to Austrian Throne
- Empress and Queen
- Exile
- Widowhood
- Post-War
- Cause of Beatification and Canonization
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Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma was born at the Villa Pianore in the Italian Province of Lucca, 9 May 1892.: 1 The unusual name Zita was given to her after Zita, a popular Italian Saint who had lived in Tuscany in the 13th century.: 16 She was the third daughter and fifth child of the deposed Robert I, Duke of Parma and his second wife Infanta Maria...
In the close vicinity of Schwarzau castle was the Villa Wartholz, residence of Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Zita's maternal aunt.: 3 She was the stepmother of Archduke Otto, who died in 1906, and the step-grandmother of Archduke Charles of Austria-Este, at that time second-in-line to the Austrian throne. The two daughters of Archduchess Ma...
At this time, Archduke Charles was in his twenties and did not expect to become emperor for some time, especially while Franz Ferdinand remained in good health. This changed on 28 June 1914 when the heir and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb nationalists. Charles and Zita received the news by telegram that day. She said ...
Charles and Zita were crowned in Budapest on 30 December 1916. Following the coronation there was a banquet, but after that the festivities ended, as the emperor and empress thought it wrong to have prolonged celebrations during a time of war.: 55 At the beginning of the reign, Charles was more often than not away from Vienna, so he had a telephone...
After a difficult few months at Eckartsau, the Imperial Family received aid from an unexpected source. Prince Sixtus had met King George V and appealed to him to help the Habsburgs. George was reportedly moved by the request, it being only months since his imperial relatives in Russia had been executed by revolutionaries, and promised "We will imme...
After Charles's death, the former Austrian imperial family were soon to move again. Alfonso XIII of Spain had approached the British Foreign Office via his ambassador in London, and they agreed to allow Zita and her seven (soon to be eight) children to relocate to Spain. Alfonso duly sent the warship Infanta Isabel to Funchal and this took them to ...
After a period of rest and recovery, Zita found herself regularly going back to Europe for the weddings of her children. She decided to move back to the continent full-time, in 1952, to Luxembourg, in order to look after her aging mother. Maria Antonia died at the age of 96 in 1959. The bishop of Chur proposed to Zita that she move into a residence...
On 10 December 2009, Mgr Yves Le Saux, Bishop of Le Mans, France, opened the diocesan process for the beatification of Zita. Zita was in the habit of spending several months each year in the diocese of Le Mans at St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes, where three of her sisters were nuns. The actor is the French Association pour la Béatification de l'Impér...
Beeche, Arturo & McIntosh, David. (2005). Empress Zita of Austria, Queen of Hungary (1892–1989)Eurohistory. ASIN: B000F1PHOIBogle, James and Joanna. (1990). A Heart for Europe: The Lives of Emperor Charles and Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, Fowler Wright, 1990, ISBN 0-85244-173-8Brook-Shepherd, Gordon. (1991). The Last Empress – The Life and Times of Zita of Austria-Hungary 1893–1989. Harper-Collins. ISBN 0-00-215861-2Harding, Bertita. (1939). Imperial Twilight: The Story of Karl and Zita of Hungary. Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers. ASIN: B000J0DDQORobert Hugo, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (Italian: Roberto Ugo di Borbone-Parma; 7 August 1909 – 15 November 1974) was the head of the House of Bourbon-Parma and the pretender to the defunct throne of the Duchy of Parma between 1959 and 1974. Property. Value.
As a granddaughter of Robert I, Duke of Parma she was first cousin to: King Boris III of Bulgaria; Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma; Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria; Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma; Crown Prince Otto of Austria; and Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg.
Sep 22, 2023 · Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois, Duchess of Parma, around 1840. Tenure 27 March 1854 – 9 June 1859. Spouse Charles III, Duke of Parma. Issue. Margherita, Duchess of Madrid. Robert I, Duke of Parma. Alice, Grand Duchess of Tuscany. Henry, Count of Bardi. Full name. French: Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois. Father Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
