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Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma

1889 - 1977

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Xavier, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, known in France before 1974 as Prince Xavier de Bourbon-Parme, known in Spain as Francisco Javier de Borbón-Parma y de Braganza or simply as Don Javier (25 May 1889 – 7 May 1977), was head of the ducal House of Bourbon-Parma. He is best known as dynastic leader of Carlism and the Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain, since 1936 as a regent-claimant and since 1952 as a claimant, appearing under the name Javier I. Since 1974, he was pretender to the defunct throne of Parma. He is also recognized as involved in the so-called Sixtus Affair of 1916–1917 and in the so-called Halifax-Chevalier talks of 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma is the 334th most popular nobleman (up from 407th in 2019), the 1,468th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,723rd in 2019) and the 38th most popular Italian Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma ranks 334 out of 1,415Before him are Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, Otto I, Count of Burgundy, Adela of Normandy, Berthold, Duke of Merania, and Isabella of England. After him are Barisan of Ibelin, Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg, Robert II, Count of Artois, Otto, Count of Savoy, Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont, and Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma ranks 57Before him are Li Dazhao, Richard Réti, Lyubov Popova, Siegfried Kracauer, Hannes Meyer, and Erik Jan Hanussen. After him are Efim Bogoljubov, Beno Gutenberg, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Walther Gerlach, Olave Baden-Powell, and Richard Glücks. Among people deceased in 1977, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma ranks 52Before him are Naum Gabo, Stephen Boyd, Kamal Jumblatt, Gudrun Ensslin, Sepp Herberger, and Oskar Morgenstern. After him are Hans Martin Sutermeister, Leopold Stokowski, Jan Patočka, Olave Baden-Powell, Hamida Djandoubi, and Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma ranks 1,468 out of 5,161Before him are Andrew, Duke of Calabria (1327), Paolo Ruffini (1765), Gaetano Bresci (1869), Tyrannius Rufinus (345), Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus (-600), and Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (1869). After him are Giovanni Ferrari (1907), Drusus Caesar (7), Ippolito de' Medici (1511), Pier Angeli (1932), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), and Ruggero Deodato (1939).

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