| REFERENCE | TITLE | NAME | BORN | DIED | TITLE | NAME | BORN | DIED | COMMENTS | |
| 14 | King | Leopold I of the Belgians | 1790 | 1865 | Princess | Charlotte of Great Britain | 1796 | 1817 | See
28.8 - Leopold was previously Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (from 1826 Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) and became King of the Belgians on 21 July 1831, some fourteen years after the death of his wife Charlotte who died in childbirth. The Belgian crown was originally offered to
Prince Louise of Orleans (Duke of Nemours) but this was rejected by his father King Louis-Philippe I of France. Belgium, with Holland formed the Kingdom of the Netherlands as confirmed by the Congress of Vienna on 9 June 1815. A Belgian uprising in 1830 resulted in an enforced separation of the two countries but it wasn't until 19 April 1839 that King Willem I of the Netherlands accepted a settlement and the independent and neutral state of Belgium came into being. The Genealogy of the Belgian Dynasty can be found here on the official site of the Belgian monarchy |
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| 14 | King | Leopold I of the Belgians | 1790 | 1865 | Caroline Bauer | 1807 | 1877 | Although not mentioned in some Royal Genealogy sources Leopold married secondly and morganatically Caroline Bauer (1807 - 1877) in 1829 apparently by signing a contract rather than in a religious wedding, in the contract she was created Countess of Montgomery. They were divorced not long after with Caroline returning to her acting career. Caroline died in 1877 from an overdose of sleeping-pills and in 1885 a posthumous book "Memoirs" was published giving details of her life with Leopold. Caroline Bauer was a cousin to Baron Stockmar advisor to Leopold and his niece Queen Victoria of Great Britain An interesting article from the "The New York Times" of November 2, 1884, Wednesday can be found here . | ||
| 14 | King | Leopold I of the Belgians | 1790 | 1865 | Princess | Louise Marie of Orleans | 1812 | 1850 | See 13.2 & 28.8 - Leopold was previously Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and became King of the Belgians on 21 July 1831. The Belgian crown was originally offered to Prince Louise of Orleans (Duke of Nemours) but this was rejected by his father King Louis-Philippe I of France. Belgium, with Holland formed the Kingdom of the Netherlands as confirmed by the Congress of Vienna on 9 June 1815. A Belgian uprising in 1830 resulted in an enforced separation of the two countries but it wasn't until 19 April 1839 that King Willem I of the Netherlands accepted a settlement and the independent and neutral state of Belgium came into being. | |
| 14.1 | Prince | Louis-Philippe of Belgium | 1833 | 1834 | ||||||
| 14.2 | King | Leopold II of the Belgians | 1835 | 1909 | Archduchess | Marie Henriette of Austria (Hungarian Line) | 1836 | 1902 | See 21.8 - Leopold was gravely ill in early December 1909 and on his deathbed was married to his lover Caroline Delacroix by a royal chaplain. He had two sons out of wedlock with Caroline, Lucien (1906-1984) and Philippe (1907-1914) | |
| 14.21 | Princess | Louise of Belgium | 1858 | 1924 | Prince | Philip of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | 1844 | 1921 | See 28.521 - Louise eloped to Nice with her husband's chamberlain with Géza Mattachich (1868-1923). She was eventually captured and returned to Vienna and placed in a lunatic asylum at the instigation of her husband. Prince Philip was considered one of the most dissolute princes and his drunken and violent behaviour towards his wife led to her attachment to Géza Mattachich. Louise managed to escape and fled to France with her lover Géza Mattachich, she obtained her divorce from her husband Philip in 1906 (one source mentions 1907) and lived the rest of life with Géza Mattachich although they never married. Géza Mattachich was the stepson of Count Oskar Keglewitch (or Keglevich) and unofficially assumed the countly title of his stepfather (i.e. assumed title Count Keglewitch) | |
| 14.22 | Prince | Leopold of Belgium (Duke of Brabant) | 1859 | 1869 | Leopold died from pneumonia, after falling into a pond. | |||||
| 14.23 | Princess | Stephanie of Belgium | 1864 | 1945 | Crown Prince | Rudolph of Austria | 1858 | 1889 | See 19.J13 - Rudolph committed suicide after killing his his eighteen year old mistress Baroness Maria Vetsera in in Mayerling | |
| 14.23 | Princess | Stephanie of Belgium | 1864 | 1945 | Count | Elemer Lónyay de Nagy-Lónya et Vásáros-Namény | 1863 | 1946 | Elemer was created Prince Lónyay de Nagy-Lónya et Vásáros-Namény in 1917. An interesting Web Site on the lands and castle acquired by Stephanie and Elemer at Rusovce | |
| 14.24 | Princess | Clementine of Belgium | 1872 | 1955 | Prince | Napoléon Victor Bonaparte (Prince Napoléon) | 1862 | 1926 | See 22.1231 | |
| 14.3 | Prince | Phillippe of Belgium (Count of Flanders) | 1837 | 1905 | Princess | Marie of Hohenzollern | 1845 | 1912 | See 6.6 - Phillippe was considered as a candidate for Prince of Roumania but declined the offer | |
| 14.31 | Prince | Baudouin of Belgium | 1869 | 1891 | ||||||
| 14.32 | Princess | Josephine Marie of Belgium | 1870 | 1871 | Princess Josephine and Princess Henriette were twins | |||||
| 14.33 | Princess | Henriette of Belgium | 1870 | 1948 | Prince | Philippe Emmanuel of Orleans (France) (Duke of Vendome and Alencon) | 1872 | 1931 | See 13.422 - Princess Josephine and Princess Henriette were twins | |
| 14.34 | Princess | Josephine Caroline of Belgium | 1872 | 1958 | Prince | Carl Anton of Hohenzollern | 1868 | 1919 | See 6.13 | |
| 14.35 | King | Albert I of the Belgians | 1875 | 1934 | Duchess | Elisabeth in Bavaria | 1876 | 1965 | See 18.K53 - Albert was killed in a rock climbing accident at Marche-les-Dames, in the Ardennes region of Belgium near Namur | |
| 14.351 | King | Leopold III of the Belgians | 1901 | 1983 | Princess | Astrid of Sweden | 1905 | 1935 | See 3.1333 - Princess Astrid was killed in a car accident in Switzerland, the car being driven by her husband Leopold . They were driving along the winding, narrow roads near their villa at Küssnacht am Rigi, Schwyz, Switzerland on the shores of Lake of Lucerne, Leopold lost control of the vehicle and the car plunged down a ravine. Leopold abdicated on 16 July 1951 in favour of his son Baudouin and followed public outrage regarding his second marriage and his conduct during the second World War | |
| 14.351 | King | Leopold III of the Belgians | 1901 | 1983 | Mary Liliane Baels | 1916 | 2002 | Leopold's standing after the death of his first wife was greatly diminished. This was compounded by his second marriage to a commoner Mary Liliane in 1941 and the fact he decided to stay in Belgium during its occupation by German forces until he was deported to Germany in 1944. A plebiscite in 1950 invited Leopold to return but after consideration he abdicated on 16 July 1951 in favour of his son Baudouin. Mary Liliane was created Princess de Rethy | ||
| 14.3511 | Princess | Josephine Charlotte of Belgium | 1927 | 2005 | Grand Duke | Jean of Luxemburg | 1921 | See 34.221- Grand Duke Jean abdicated on 7 October 2000 and was succeeded by his son Henri | ||
| 14.3512 | King | Baudouin I of the Belgians | 1930 | 1993 | Dońa | Fabiola de Mora y Aragón | 1928 | The Law of Succession in Belgium was changed by Royal Decree published on 05 December 1991 but with effect from 02 December 1991, whereby the standards of Salic Law was abolished in favour of succession by order of birth and applying to the descendants of King Albert II. Hitherto the Constitution of 1831 excluded women from the throne | ||
| 14.3513 | King | Albert II of the Belgians | 1934 | Donna | Paola Ruffo di Calabria | 1937 | Albert has a daughter Delphine Boël by Sybille, Baroness de Selys Longchamps. Delphine was born on 22 February 1968 and bears the name of Jacques Boël the husband of her mother Sybille (Jacques and Sybille were married in 1962). | |||
| 14.35131 | Crown Prince | Philippe of Belgium (Duke of Brabant) | 1960 | Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz | 1973 | Mathilde was granted the title Princess of Belgium ad personam by Royal Decree on 8 November 1999, which was published on 13 November 1999 but didn't come into force until 4 December 1999, when she married Prince Philippe. | ||||
| 14.351311 | Princess | Elisabeth of Belgium | 2001 | |||||||
| 14.351312 | Prince | Gabriel Baudouin of Belgium | 2003 | |||||||
| 14.351313 | Prince | Emmanuel Leopold of Belgium | 2005 | |||||||
| 14.351314 | Princess | Eléonore of Belgium | 2008 | |||||||
| 14.35132 | Princess | Astrid of Belgium | 1962 | Archduke | Lorenz of Austria-Este | 1955 | See 19.J32132 - Lorenz was created Prince of Belgium by Royal Decree published on 14 November 1995 but with effect from 10 November 1995. The children of Princess Astrid and Archduke Lorenz are also Prince or Princess of Belgium from 1991 following a change to the Belgium Constitutional Laws which repealed the laws of succession by male primogeniture. | |||
| 14.35133 | Prince | Laurent of Belgium | 1963 | Claire Coombs | 1974 | Claire was granted the title Princess of Belgium ad personam by Royal Decree on 1 April 2003, which was published on 8 April 2003 but didn't come into force until 8 April 2003, when she married Prince Laurent. | ||||
| 14.351331 | Princess | Louise Sophie of Belgium | 2004 | |||||||
| 14.351332 | Prince | Nicolas Casimir of Belgium | 2005 | |||||||
| 14.351333 | Prince | Aymeric Auguste of Belgium | 2005 | |||||||
| 14.3514 | Prince | Alexandre of Belgium | 1942 | Lea Wolman | 1951 | Prince Alexandre and Lea Wolman were married in 1991 although it was not made public until 1998. Lea was created Princess of Belgium in her right (information being checked) | ||||
| 14.3515 | Princess | Marie Christina of Belgium | 1951 | Paul Druker | 1938 | 2008 | Marie Christina's marriage to Paul Druker lasted 40 days. | |||
| 14.3515 | Princess | Marie Christina of Belgium | 1951 | Jean-Paul Gourgues | 1949 | |||||
| 14.3516 | Princess | Marie-Esmeralda of Belgium | 1956 | Salvador Moncada | 1944 | Princess Marie-Esmeralda is a journalist working under the name of Esmeralda de Rethy | ||||
| 14.35161 | Alexandra Leopoldine Moncada | 1998 | ||||||||
| 14.35162 | Leopoldo Daniel Moncada | 2001 | ||||||||
| 14.352 | Prince | Charles of Belgium (Count of Flanders) | 1903 | 1983 | Jacqueline Peyrebrune | 1921 | On the liberation of Belgium, King Leopold III was not in the country, having been deported to Germany by the occupiers. As the Constitution provides for the possibility of a Regency, Prince Charles was made Regent of the Kingdom by the Combined Chambers of Parliament.
On 20 September 1944, Prince Charles took the constitutional oath. He exercised the royal prerogatives until 20 July 1950. It would appear the marriage of Charles to Jacqueline was not legal. Their union was blessed in a private religious ceremony on 14 September 1977, but under French law a religious marriage must be preceded by a civil one. |
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| 14.353 | Princess | Marie-José of Belgium | 1906 | 2001 | King | Umberto II of Italy | 1904 | 1983 | See 8.1213 - Umberto succeeded his father as King on 9 May 1946. In a referendum on 2 June 1946 12.7 million Italians voted in favour of a republic and 10.7 million for the retention of the monarchy. Although Umberto refused to accept the vote against the monarchy he left Italy on 13 June 1946 to prevent the outbreak of violence. | |
| 14.4 | Princess | Charlotte of Belgium | 1840 | 1927 | Archduke | Maximilian of Austria | 1832 | 1867 | See 19.J2 - Maximillian was created Emperor of Mexico in 1864 with the support of the French and falsely believing he had the general support of the people of Mexico. Napoleon's French troops were forced under pressure from the United Sates of America to withdraw from Mexico. Maximilian refused to abdicate and was captured and executed by the Mexicans. Charlotte went "Mad" during 1866 trying to get assistance in Europe for her husband. She spent the remaining 60 years after the death of her husband locked up a chateau outside Brussels. |