Duke of Galliera
{{Short description|Italian noble title}}
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Duke of Galliera is an Italian noble title that has been created several times for members of different families. The name of the title refers to the comune of Galliera, which is located in the Province of Bologna in Emilia–Romagna.
History
The title was first created in 1812 by Napoleon I for Josephine of Leuchtenberg, daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais (and granddaughter of Napoleon's first wife, Josephine). She kept the title even after she married Oscar, Crown Prince of Sweden. Napoleon had already given her the Palazzo Caprara in Bologna in 1807, which was renamed the Palazzo Galliera.
In 1837, after a decade of negotiations, Crown Prince Oscar sold properties attached to the dukedom to Marquis Raffaele de Ferrari of Genoa. The following year, the marquis received the title of Duke of Galliera from Pope Gregory XVI. In 1839, King Charles Albert of Sardinia confirmed the grant to the marquis and added the title of Prince of Lucedio.
With his wife, Maria Brignole-Sale, the new Duke of Galliera had three children, but two of them died young and childless. The third, the famous philatelist Philipp von Ferrary, renounced the title and the inheritance to which it was linked.
In 1877, after the death of her husband, Maria Brignole-Sale (a fervent Orléanist) bequeathed his Italian properties to Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, the youngest son of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French. After the death of Maria Brignole-Sale in 1888, Prince Antoine received the ducal title of Galliera from King Umberto I of Italy. Since then, the title of Duke of Galliera has belonged to the Orléans branch of the Spanish royal family, although the properties attached to the dukedom were sold by Infante Antonio in 1920.
Bernadotte-Leuchtenberg dukes
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width=auto| Josephine 1812–1837 | 14 March 1807 | rowspan="2"| 19 June 1823 | 7 June 1876 |
width=auto| Oscar 1823–1837 | File:Oscar I porträtterad 1836 av Fredric Westin.jpg | 4 July 1799 | 8 July 1859 |
Ferrari Brignole-Sale dukes
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width=auto| Raffaele de Ferrari 1838–1876 | File:Luigi Raffaele De Ferrari.jpg | 6 July 1803 | rowspan="2"| c. 1828 | 23 November 1876 |
width=auto| Maria de Brignole-Sale 1876–1888 | File:Léon Cogniet - Portrait de Maria Brignole-Sale De Ferrari.jpg | 5 April 1811 | 9 December 1888 |
Orléans dukes
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width=auto| Prince Antoine 1888–1890 | File:1824-1890AntoineBourbon.jpg | 31 July 1824 | Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain | 4 February 1890 |
width=auto| Infante Antonio 1890–1930 | File:Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera.jpg | 23 February 1866 | Infanta Eulalia of Spain | 24 December 1930 |
width=auto| Infante Alfonso 1930–1975 | File:Alfonso de Orleans, de Franzen.jpg | 12 November 1886 | Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | 6 August 1975 |
width=auto| Infante Álvaro 1975–1997 | File:Álvaro de Orleans y Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha, Duke of Galliera.jpg | 20 April 1910 | Carla Parodi-Delfino | 22 August 1997 |
width=auto| Don Alfonso 1997–present | File:Coat of Arms of the House of Orleans-Galliera (Since 1997).svg | 2 January 1968 | Véronique Goeders | living |
See also
Notes and references
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- [http://www.galeriekugel.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=7&tabindex=6&objectid=31181&categoryid=0 History of the Duchy of Galliera.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711063531/http://www.galeriekugel.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=7&tabindex=6&objectid=31181&categoryid=0 |date=2011-07-11 }}
- Dominique Paoli, Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Princes of Orleans, 1848-1918, Artena, 2006, p. 248. 248.
- [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/09/12/118158733.pdf Duke of Galliera Escapes. Appears in Italy from Madrid, where King was his Guardian. The New York Times. September 12 1919.]
- [http://www.pianurareno.org/?q=node/2353 Franco Ardizzoni, 'Il Ducato di Galliera, Dalle terre della "bassa" all'Europa']