| Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg | |
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| Born | 24 September 1861 Padua, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 31 July 1924 (aged 62) Territet (near Montreux), Switzerland |
| Spouse(s) | Princess Anna of Montenegro (m. 1897) |
Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg, also known as Prince Franz Joseph of Battenberg, GCVO KCB, (24 September 1861 – 31 July 1924), was the fourth and youngest son and child of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Countess Julia von Hauke.
Biography[]
At one time, he was considered for the throne of Bulgaria, which eventually went to his brother Alexander.[1] Francis Joseph nevertheless followed his brother to Bulgaria, where he served as a colonel in the Bulgarian cavalry.[2] In 1891 he published an academic study on Bulgarian economic history, which he dedicated to his brother.[3]
At a family reunion in London in 1894 Franz Joseph met Consuelo Vanderbilt, the daughter of an extremely wealthy American railway tycoon William Kissam Vanderbilt. He made a marriage proposal to Consuelo, but she disliked him and turned him down.[1][4]
In 1897 he married Princess Ana Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro (1874–1971), daughter of King Nicholas I of Montenegro. They had no children.[5]
He was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (Civil Division) by Queen Victoria on 6 February 1896[6] and a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order on 26 April 1897.[7]
Ancestry[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie, Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and Mother in the Gilded Age, Harper Perennial, 2005, p. 101
- ↑ "Royal Wedding At Cettinje; Francis Joseph of Battenberg United to Princess Anna of Montenegro". Cettinje. 19 May 1897. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/05/19/102401769.pdf.
- ↑ von Battenberg, Franz Joseph (1891). Die volkswirthschaftliche Entwicklung Bulgariens von 1879 bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: Veit. https://archive.org/details/dievolkswirthsc00battgoog.
- ↑ Stasz, Clarice (1999). The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour, and Tragedy. Lincoln, NE: toExcel Press. p. 118. ISBN 1-58348-727-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=h5_WgKzBH9gC&lpg=PA118&pg=PA118. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- ↑ Theroff, Paul (2007). "Hesse". An Online Gotha. http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/hesse.html. Retrieved 11 March 2007.
- ↑ "No. 26707". 7 February 1896. p. 718. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26707/page/718
- ↑ "No. 10883". 14 May 1897. p. 458. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/10883/page/458
External links[]
- Works by or about Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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