Prince Gaetan, Coont o Girgenti
Prince Gaetano | |||||
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Coont o Girgenti | |||||
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Born | 12 Januar 1846 Naples, Twa Sicilies | ||||
Dee'd | 26 November 1871 Lucerne, Switzerland | (aged 25)||||
Buirial | El Escorial, Madrid, Spain | ||||
Spouse | Isabel, Princess o Asturias (m. 1868) | ||||
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Hoose | Bourbons o the Twa Sicilies | ||||
Faither | Ferdinand II o the Twa Sicilies | ||||
Mither | Maria Theresa o Austrick | ||||
Releegion | Roman Catholic | ||||
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Prince Gaetano o the Twa Sicilies, Coont o Girgenti (Gaetano Maria Federico; 2 Januar 1846 – 26 November 1871) wis a Prince o the Twa Sicilies bi birth an wis created the Coont o Girgenti bi his faither Keeng Ferdinand II o the Twa Sicilies. He mairit a dochter o Queen Isabel II o Spain an wis created an Infante o Spain. He an his wife haed nae childer. He haed unsuccessfully attempted suicide at least once before shooting himsel in the heid in his hotel room.
Mairiage[eedit | eedit soorce]
Prince Gaetan mairit Isabel, Princess o Asturies, eldest surviving dochter o Infante Francisco de Asís o Spain, Duke o Cádiz an Isabella II o Spain, on 13 Mey 1868 in Madrid. Gaetan wis a first cousin tae both o Isabel's parents. Their union wis intended tae end a feud atween the Neapolitan Bourbons an the Spaingie Bourbons following Spain's recognition o the Kinrick o Italy unified under the Hoose o Savoy. The ceremony took place shortly before Spain's Glorious Revolution which brocht an end tae IsabelII's ring.
Teetles an styles[eedit | eedit soorce]
- 12 Januar 1846 – 13 Mey 1868: His Ryal Highness Prince Gaetano, The Coont o Girgenti, Prince o Twa Sicilies.
- 13 Mey 1868 – 26 November 1871: His Ryal Highness Prince Gaetano, The Coont o Girgenti, Infante o Spain, Prince o Twa Sicilies.
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- 1846 births
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- Coonts o Italy
- Hoose o Bourbon (Twa Sicilies)
- Princes o the Twa Sicilies
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- Ryalty an nobility wi disabeelities
- Burials in the Pantheon o Infantes at El Escorial
- Suicides
- Grand Crosses o the Order o Charles III
- Bailiffs Grand Cross o the Saucrit Militar Constantinian Order o Saunt George
- Fowk frae Campanie
- Fowk wi epilepsy
- Hoose o Bourbon (Spain)
- Knichts o the Gowden Fleece (Spain)
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