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Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona (Juan Carlos Teresa Silverio Alfonso de Borbón y Battenberg; 20 June 1913 – 1 April 1993), was a claimant to the Spanish throne as Juan III. He was the third son and designated heir of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Queen Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg .
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona (Juan Carlos Teresa Silverio Alfonso de Borbón y Battenberg; 20 June 1913 – 1 April 1993), was a claimant to the Spanish throne as Juan III. He was the third son and designated heir of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Queen Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. His father was replaced by the Second Spanish Republic in 1931.
Apr 7, 2023 · For several years, the Count battled stoically against laryngeal cancer, which eventually defeated him. He died in a hospital in the city of Pamplona with his son, King Juan Carlos I, daughter-in-law, Queen Sofia, elder daughter, Infanta Pilar, and younger daughter, Infanta Margarita, at his bedside.
Apr 1, 2012 · In 1977, two years after his son became King, HRH Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona formally renounced his rights to the Crown at a ceremony at the Zarzuela Palace. The Count was buried will the full honours of a King of Spain at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, died of laryngeal cancer in Pamplona, Spain on April 1, 1993. He was buried, with the honors of a King, in the Royal Crypt of the Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial.
Jan 4, 1993 · Infante Juan of Spain, Count of Barcelona (* 20.6.1913, O 12.10.1935, † 1.4.1993) King Alfonso XIII of Spain (* 17.5.1886, O 31.5.1906, † 28.2.1941) King Alfonso XII of Spain (* 28.11.1857, O 23.1.1878, O 29.11.1879, † 25.11.1885) Infante Francis of Spain, King consort of Spain (* 13.5.1822, O 10.10.1846, † 17.4.1902)
Juan Carlos is the son of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, and grandson of Alfonso XIII, the last king of Spain before the abolition of the monarchy in 1931 and the subsequent declaration of the Second Spanish Republic. Juan Carlos was born in Rome, Italy, during his family's exile.