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Duke of Galliera

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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

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| 14 March 1807
Milan
eldest daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais and Princess Augusta of Bavaria

| rowspan="2"| 19 June 1823
Stockholm
five children

| 7 June 1876
Stockholm
aged 69

width=auto| Oscar
1823–1837

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| 4 July 1799
Paris
only son of Charles XIV John of Sweden and Désirée Clary

| 8 July 1859
Stockholm
aged 60

Ferrari Brignole-Sale dukes

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width=auto| Raffaele de Ferrari
1838–1876

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| 6 July 1803
Genoa
son of Andrea de Ferrari and Livia Ignazia Pallavicino

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three children

| 23 November 1876
Genoa
aged 73

width=auto| Maria de Brignole-Sale
1876–1888

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| 5 April 1811
Genoa
daughter of Antoine Brignole-Sale, Marchese di Groppoli and Arthemisa Negrone, of Genoa

| 9 December 1888
Genoa
aged 76

Orléans dukes

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width=auto| Prince Antoine
1888–1890

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| 31 July 1824
Château de Neuilly, Neuilly-sur-Seine
fifth son of Louis-Philippe of France and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily

| Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain
10 October 1846
Madrid
ten children

| 4 February 1890
Palacio de Orleans-Borbón, Sanlúcar de Barrameda
aged 65

width=auto| Infante Antonio
1890–1930

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| 23 February 1866
Seville
only surviving son of Antoine and Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain

| Infanta Eulalia of Spain
6 March 1886
Madrid
three children

| 24 December 1930
Paris
aged 64

width=auto| Infante Alfonso
1930–1975

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| 12 November 1886
Madrid
eldest son of Antonio and Infanta Eulalia of Spain

| Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
15 July 1909
St. Augustine's Church, Coburg
three children

| 6 August 1975
Sanlúcar de Barrameda
aged 88

width=auto| Infante Álvaro
1975–1997

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| 20 April 1910
Coburg
eldest son of Alfonso and Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

| Carla Parodi-Delfino
10 July 1937
Rome
four children

| 22 August 1997
Monte Carlo
aged 87

width=auto| Don Alfonso
1997–present

| File:Coat of Arms of the House of Orleans-Galliera (Since 1997).svg

| 2 January 1968
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
eldest son of Don Alonso de Orleans-Borbón y Parodi-Delfino and Emilia Ferrara-Pignatelli

| Véronique Goeders
28 March 1994
Paris
one son

| 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']