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Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou〔His name as described in his biography at the website of the ''Institut Duc d'Anjou'' is "(Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, duc d'Anjou )"〕〔His name is given as "Prince Louis Alphonse of Bourbon and Martínez-Bordiú, Duke of Anjou" by Olga S. Opfell in ''Royalty who wait: the 21 heads of formerly regnant houses of Europe'' (2001), p. 11.〕 ((スペイン語:Luis Alfonso Jaime Marcelino Manuel Víctor María de Borbón-Segovia y Martínez-Bordiú), (フランス語:Louis Alphonse Gonzalve Victor Emmanuel Marc de Bourbon);〔Eilers, Marlene A. Queen Victoria's Descendants. ''Princess Beatrice''. Rosvall Royal Books, Falkoping, Sweden, 1997. pp. 166, 181; ISBN 91-630-5964-9〕〔Enache, Nicolas. La Descendanace de Marie-Therese de Habsburg Reine de Hongrie and Boheme. ''Maison royale regnante d'Espagne''. ICC/Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery, Paris, 1999, p. 535. ISBN 2-908003-04-X. In French.〕〔Willis, Daniel A. The Descendants of King George I of Great Britain. ''The Descendants of Princess Anne, The Princess of Orange''. Clearfield, Baltimore, 2002. p. 231. ISBN 0-8063-5172-1〕 born 25 April 1974, in Madrid) is a member of the Royal House of Bourbon, and one of the current pretenders to the defunct French throne as Louis XX. He is recognized as the "Head of the House of Bourbon" and rightful claimant to the French crown by the Legitimist faction of French royalists, who also considered him as the senior male heir of Hugh Capet, being the senior descendant of King Louis XIV of France (ruled 1643–1715) through his grandson King Philip V of Spain. Louis Alphonse is a great-grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and second cousin of King Philip VI of Spain. Through his mother, he is also a great-grandson of Spain's former dictator Francisco Franco.〔 ==Life== Louis Alphonse was born in Madrid, the second son of Alfonso de Borbón, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, and of his wife ''Doña'' María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco, granddaughter of Francisco Franco. Alfonso was at that time the dauphin (using "Duke of Bourbon" as title of pretence) according to those who supported the claim of his father, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia to the French throne. On 20 March 1975, the Infante Jaime ("Henri VI" by Legitimist reckoning) died. Alfonso then asserted his claim to be both Head of the House of Bourbon and Legitimist claimant to the throne of France. As such, he took the title Duke of Anjou,〔 and on 19 September 1981 gave Louis Alphonse the title Duke of Touraine. Louis Alphonse's parents divorced in 1982. The religious marriage was annulled in 1986. His mother has since remarried civilly twice; he had two stepsisters Mathilda (deceased) and Marella, and a stepbrother Frederick, all born before his mother's marriage to Jean-Marie Rossi and a half-sister, Cynthia Rossi, born afterwards. On 7 February 1984, Louis Alphonse's older brother Francisco died as the result of a car crash in which Louis Alphonse was also injured, although less so than their father, who was driving the automobile.〔''Les Manuscrits du CEDRE V, Le Royaume d'Espagne III. Cercle d'Etudes des Dynasties Royales Europėennes'' (CEDRE), Paris, 1992, ISSN=0993-3964 p. 162-164〕 From that date Louis Alphonse was recognised as the heir apparent to his father by the Legitimists. As such, he was given the additional title Duke of Bourbon on 27 September 1984 by his father.〔 In 1987, the Spanish government declared that titles traditionally attached to the dynasty (such as the Dukedom of Cádiz) would henceforth be borne by its members on an ''ad personam'' basis, forestalling Louis Alphonse from inheriting it.〔 On 30 January 1989, his father died in a skiing accident near Vail, Colorado (in 1994 Louis Alphonse would receive 150 million ''pesetas'' following a lawsuit against Vail Associated, which owned the ski resort where the accident occurred).〔 Louis Alphonse was recognised by some members of the Capetian dynasty as ''Chef de la Maison de Bourbon'' (Head of the House of Bourbon)〔〔''Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser, Band XV''. "Spanien". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1997, p.98. ISBN 3-7980-0814-0.〕 and took the title Duke of Anjou, but not his father's Spanish dukedom. He is considered the rightful pretender to the French throne by adherents of the Legitimist movement.〔 Louis’ father was elected by the French Society of the Cincinnati to be the representative of Louis XVI (leading to the resignation of the Count of Paris, who had represented the Admiral d'Orléans). On 16 June 1994, Louis Alphonse was elected to succeed his father as the Representative of Louis XVI, whose military aid was instrumental to the independence of the United States of America. In accordance to the statutes of this Society, he represents the French king as the eldest male of the senior collateral line. As well as Spanish citizenship, Louis Alphonse acquired French nationality through his paternal grandmother, Emmanuelle de Dampierre, also a French citizen.〔 He attended the ''Lycėe Français de Madrid'', obtaining his ''COU'' in June 1992.〔 He studied economics. He worked several years for ''BNP Paribas'', a French bank in Madrid. Although he regularly visited France, where his mother lived for several years, he continued to live in Spain. Louis Alphonse's engagement to marry Venezuelan María Margarita Vargas Santaella, the daughter of Victor Vargas, was announced in November 2003. They were married civilly in Caracas on 5 November 2004 and religiously on 6 November 2004 in La Romana, Dominican Republic. None of the members of the Spanish Royal Family attended the wedding. Although no official reason was given, it was no secret that the then King of Spain did not approve his cousin's claim to the French throne and the fact that Louis Alphonse issued the wedding invitations as "Duke of Anjou" did not sit well with the king. As from 2005, the couple resided in Venezuela, where he worked at ''Banco Occidental de Descuento'', before moving to the United States. They currently live in Madrid. In June 2006, Louis Alphonse refused to attend his mother's third wedding, because he disagrees with her way of life as a celebrity, and with her separation from her previous husband, a man whom he greatly respects. Louis Alphonse and Maria Margarita had their first child, a daughter, named Eugénie, on 5 March 2007, at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Florida. She was baptised at the papal nunciature in Paris in June 2007. Her godparents are Prince Charles-Emmanuel of Bourbon-Parma and his wife Constance. Legitimists recognise her as Princess Eugénie (in Spain her name is Eugenia de Borbón y Vargas). The couple had twin sons, Louis and Alphonse, on 28 May 2010. Louis has been given the title of Duke of Burgundy (''duc de Bourgogne''), and Alphonse the title of Duke of Berry (''duc de Berry''). Prince Louis, as Legitimist Dauphin of France, is expected to succeed his father as Head of the French Royal House in Legitimist reckoning (in Spain, the twins are ''Don'' Luis and ''Don'' Alfonso de Borbón y Vargas). Prince Louis and Prince Alphonse were baptized on 5 September 2010 at St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. The godparents of Louis were Arancha Martínez-Bordíu and Francisco D'Agostino. The godparents of Alphonse were Amparo Corell de Trenor baroness de Alacuas and Lorenzo Perales. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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