Jaime, Duque de Segovia

HRH Don Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique de Borbón y Battenberg, Infante of Spain, Duke of Segovia (June 23, 1908- March 20, 1975), was the second son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. He was born in the royal palace of Granja de San Ildefonso in Segovia.

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June 23 - 1908 - March 20 - 1975 - Alfonso XIII - Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg - Segovia

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Because he was deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the Spanish throne for himself and his descendants on June 23, 1933. He then became Duke of Segovia. In 1941, however, he proclaimed himself the legitimate heir to the French throne and head of the House of Bourbon, as was known as the Duke of Anjou. He was known to the french legitimists as Henri VI (since 1957, he signed all documents as Jacques Henri).

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Deaf-mute - June 23 - 1933 - Segovia - House of Bourbon - Duke of Anjou

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Jaime married in Rome on March 4, 1935 Victoria Jeanne Joséphine Emanuela de Dampierre (born 1913), daughter of Don Roger de Dampierre 2° Duca di San Lorenzo e Visconte di Dampierre Nobile di Viterbo (* Tours 9-5-1892 + Chaumont-sur-Tharonne 14-2-1975) and of the italian princess Donna Vittoria Ruspoli (* Roma 31-12-1892 + ivi 13-1-1982), and they had two sons, named for Jaime's hemophiliac brothers, Alfonso and Gonzalo:

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March 4 - 1935 - 1913 - Hemophiliac

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• Luis Alfonso de Borbón y Dampierre, Duke of Cádiz (1936?1989).
• Gonzalo de Borbón y Dampierre, Duke of Aquitania (1937-2000). He married three times, but his only daughter is an illegitimate one he legally recognized.

Don Jaime and Emanuela de Dampierre divorced on 1947 in Bucarest (reconigzed by the Italian courts in 1949 but never recognized in Spain) and, on August 3, 1949 in Innsbruck, Don Jaime remarried to divorced singer Charlotte Luise Auguste Tiedemann (1919-1979). However, at the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church and of the French legitimists, Emanuela de Dampierre remained always his wife.

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Bucarest - August 3 - 1949 - Innsbruck - 1919 - 1979 - Roman Catholic Church

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On December 6, 1949, Don Jaime tried to take back his renounce to the throne of Spain. On May 3, 1964, he took the title Duke of Madrid as head of the carlist branch of the Spanish succession. On July 19, 1969, Don Jaime definitively renounced the Spanish succession in favour of his nephew, current King Juan Carlos I of Spain, by petition of his son Alfonso de Borbón.

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December 6 - 1949 - May 3 - 1964 - Duke of Madrid - Carlist - July 19 - 1969 - Juan Carlos I of Spain

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Don Jaime died on St. Gall Cantonal Hospital in Switzerland on March 20, 1975. He's buried at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

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St. Gall - Switzerland - El Escorial

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