Genealogy of the Royal Family of Italy1

HRH Princess Clotilda and her descendants


HRH Ludovica Teresa Maria Clotilda Princess of Savoy, Princess of Sardinia
* Turin, March 2nd, 1843
† Moncalieri Castle near Turin, June 25th, 1911
Titled Countess di Moncalieri, January 9th, 1878

Married:

HIH Prince NapoléonTurin, January 30th, 1859:
HIH Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Prince Napoléon, Prince Français ("Plon-Plon")
* Trieste, September 9th, 1822
† Rome, March 17th, 1891
(His titles Prince Napoléon, Prince Français with the qualification of Imperial Highness were confirmed by Emperor Napoleon III, December 23rd, 1852; assumed the title Count de Meudon after the fall of the Empire)
Deputy of Corsica 1848; Deputy of la Sarthe 1849; Minister Plenipotentiary to Madrid, February 10th, 1849; Senator 1852; Minister of Algeria and the Colonies, June 24th, 1858 - March 8th, 1859; Advisor-General of Corsica, October 8th, 1871; Deputy of Corsica 1876
Created Count di Moncalieri by King Vittorio Emanuele II, November 1st, 1870; Head of the Imperial Family of France, June 1st, 1879
Division general, January 24th, 1853 - 1872

Children from this marriage:

  1. HIH Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric Prince Napoléon
  2. HIH Napoléon Louis Joseph Jérôme Napoléon Prince Français
    * Château de Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, July 16th, 1864
    † Château-Villa de Prangins, Vaud, October 14th, 1932
  3. HIH Marie Laetitia Eugénie Catherine Adélaïde Napoléon Princess Française
    * Royal Palace, Paris, December 20th, 1866
    † Moncalieri Castle near Turin, October 25th, 1926

    Married:

    Turin, September 11th, 1888:
    HRH
    Amedeo Ferdinando Maria Prince of Savoy, Prince of Sardinia, 1st Duke d'Aosta
    (Between November 16th, 1870 and February 11th, 1873:) HM Amedeo I Ferdinando Maria King of Spain and the Indies, Prince of Savoy, Prince of Sardinia
    (Since January 1st, 1890:) HRH Amedeo Ferdinando Maria Prince Royal of Savoy, 1st Duke d'Aosta
    * Turin, May 30th, 1845
    † Turin, January 18th, 1890
    King of Spain (Proclaimed by the Cortès: Madrid, November 16th, 1870; abdicated, February 11th, 1873)


HIH Prince Victor NapoléonHIH Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric Prince Napoléon
* Royal Palace, Paris, July 18th, 1862
† 241 Louizalaan, Brussels, May 3rd, 1926
Head of the Imperial Family of France, March 17th, 1891

HIH Princess Clémentine Napoléon née Princess of BelgiumMarried:

(civil) Yellow Drawing-Room and (religious) Chapel, Moncalieri Castle near Turin, November 14th, 1910:
HRH
Clémentine Albertine Marie Léopoldine Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of Saxony
(Since March 14th, 1891:) HRH Clémentine Albertine Marie Léopoldine Princess of Belgium, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of Saxony
(Since the end of World War I:) HRH Clémentine Albertine Marie Léopoldine Princess of Belgium
* Château de Laeken, July 30th, 1872
† Villa "Clair-Vallon", Avenue Scuderi, Nice-Cimiez, Alpes-Maritimes, March 8th, 1955

Children from this marriage:

  1. HIH Marie Clotilde Eugénie Alberte Laetitia Geneviève Napoléon Princess Française
  2. HIH Louis Jérôme Victor Emmanuel Léopold Marie Prince Napoléon

HIH Marie Clotilde Eugénie Alberte Laetitia Geneviève Napoléon Princess Française
* Brussels, March 20th, 1912
† Château de la Pommerie, Cendrieux, Dordogne, April 17th, 1996

Married:

Our Lady of Victories Church, Kensington High Street, London, October 17th, 1938:
Serge de Witt
* Moscow, December 30th, 1891
† Cendrieux, Dordogne, July 21th, 1990

Children from this marriage:

  1. Marie Eugénie de Witt
    * Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, August 29th, 1939

    Married:

    1. Paris (XVIth Arrondissement), November 9th, 1961:
      Peter Petrovitch Count Cheremetev
      * Kenitra near Rabat, September 13th, 1931
      (Divorced: Paris, July 10th, 1975)
    2. Paris (VIIth Arrondissement), October 24th, 1975:
      Hélie Albert Gérard Count de Pourtalès
      * Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, November 25th, 1938
  2. Hélène de Witt
  3. Napoléon Serge de Witt
    * Sousse, November 2nd, 1942
    † Sousse, November 6th, 1942
  4. Yolande de Witt
    * Sousse, November 9th, 1943
    † Sousse, July 6th, 1945
  5. Véra Geneviève de Witt
    * Monastir, November 7th, 1945

    Married:

    (civil) Urval, Dordogne, April 9th and (religious) Cendrieux, Dordogne, April 11th, 1966:
    Raymond Godefroy Marquess de Commarque
    * Urval, Dordogne, December 18th, 1938

    Children from this marriage:

    1. Grégoire Ludovic Wladimir de Commarque
      * Périgueux, Dordogne, April 22nd, 1967
    2. Cyril Amédéo de Commarque
      * Périgueux, Dordogne, August 12th, 1970

      Married:

      Abbaye de Cadouin, Dordogne, June 6th, 1998:
      HSH
      Cecile Marita Dorothea Princess zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg
      * Crailsheim, December 16th, 1967

  6. Baudouin de Witt
  7. Isabelle de Witt
    * Château de la Pommerie, Cendrieux, Dordogne, January 27th, 1949

    Married:

    (civil) Paris (XVIth Arrondissement) and (religious) Saint-Louis-des-Invalides, Paris (VIIth Arrondissement), October 16th, 1970:
    Remmert Laan
    * Bloemendaal, July 29th, 1942

    Children from this marriage:

    1. Constantin Laan
      * Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, October 11th, 1974
    2. Adrien Laan
      * Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, March 12th, 1977
    3. Jérôme Laan
      * Paris, July 9th, 1981
  8. Jean Jérôme de Witt
    * Château de la Pommerie, Cendrieux, Dordogne, April 12th, 1950

    Married:

    1. Rhode-Saint-Genèse, October 21st, 1970:
      Véronique De Dryver
      * Uccle, December 26th, 1950
      (Divorced: Bergerac, Dordogne, February 16th, 1990)
    2. Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, August 31st, 1992:
      Viviane Jutheau
      * Paris (VIIIth Arrondissement), September 10th, 1947

    Children from the first marriage:

    1. Alexandre de Witt
      * Ixelles, March 9th, 1971
    2. Marie-Clotilde de Witt
      * Uccle, December 8th, 1977
    3. Iliona de Witt
      * Brussels, June 21st, 1980
  9. Vladimir de Witt
    * Château de la Pommerie, Cendrieux, Dordogne, January 26th, 1952

    Married:

    1. (civil) Hainburg an der Donau, April 30th and (religious) Franziskaner Church, Vienna, June 26th, 1976:
      Margareta Mautner von Markhof
      * Vienna, March 15th, 1954
      (Divorced: Paris, April 9th, 1993)
    2. Paris, November 20th, 1993:
      Françoise Martin-Flory
      * Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, May 28th, 1959

    Children from the first marriage:

    1. Elena de Witt
      * Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, December 8th, 1977
    2. Victor de Witt
      * Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, October 21st, 1979
    3. Ségolène de Witt
      * Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, December 28th, 1983

    Children from the second marriage:

    1. Alexandre de Witt
      * ...
    2. Hortense de Witt
      * Paris (XVIth Arrondissement), March 5th, 1996
    3. Dimitri de Witt
      * Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, May 27th, 1997
    4. Igor de Witt
      * Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, January 6th, 2001
  10. Anne Clémentine de Witt
    * Bergerac, Dordogne, March 28th, 1953

    Married:

    Cendrieux, Dordogne, June 7th, 1975:
    Henry Robert de Rancher
    * Fez, December 15th, 1949
    † Paris, May 27th, 1995

    Children from this marriage:

    1. Charles Louis Robert de Rancher
      * New York City, New York, December 28th, 1981
    2. Edouard-Henri Robert de Rancher
      * New York City, New York, June 5th, 1984

HIH Prince Louis Napoléon HIH Louis Jérôme Victor Emmanuel Léopold Marie Prince Napoléon
* Brussels, January 23rd, 1914
† Geneva, May 3rd, 1997
Head of the Imperial Family of France, May 3rd, 1926
Captain of the Infantry of France
Commander of the Order of the Legion of Honor of France, Bearer of the War Cross (1939-1945) of France, Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, Bearer of the War Cross of Belgium

Married:

Château de Linières-Bouton, Maine-et-Loire, August 16th, 1949:
Alix Marie Josephe Thérèse Henriette de Foresta
* Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, April 4th, 1926

Children from this marriage:

  1. HIH Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Prince Napoléon
    * Clinique du Belvédère, 18 Rue du Belvédère, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, October 19th, 1950
    Head of the Imperial Family of France, May 3rd, 1997
    2

    Married:

    1. Paris (Vth Arrondissement), December 19th, 1978:
      HRH
      Béatrice Marie Caroline Louise Françoise Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
      * Saint-Raphaël, Var, June 16th, 1950
      (Divorced: Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, May 2nd, 1989)
    2. Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, September 28th, 1996:
      Jeanne Françoise Valliccionni
      * Ortiporio, Haute-Corse, March 26th, 1958

    Children from the first marriage:

    1. HIH Caroline Marie Constance Napoléon Princess Française
      * Paris (IXth Arrondissement), October 24th, 1980
    2. HIH Jean-Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Napoléon Prince Français
      * Clinique Notre-Dame, Saint-Raphaël, Var, July 11th, 1986

    Child from the second marriage:

    1. HIH Sophie Cathérine Napoléon Princess Française
      * 19 Boulevard Arago, Paris (XIIIth Arrondissement), April 18th, 1992
      (Born out of wedlock)
  2. HIH Catherine Elisabeth Albérique Marie Napoléon Princess Française
    * Clinique du Belvédère, 18 Rue du Belvédère, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, October 19th, 1950

    Married:

    1. (civil) Château de Nyon, Vaud, June 4th and (religious) Villa de Prangins, June 5th, 1974:
      Nicolò San Martino d'Agliè dei Marchesi di Fontanetto con San Germano
      * Campiglione, July 3rd, 1948
      (Divorced: Lausanne, September 24th, 1982)
    2. Paris (XVIth Arrondissement), October 22nd, 1982:
      Jean Claude Henri Dualé
      * Medjez-el-Bab, November 3rd, 1936

    Children from the second marriage:

    1. Charlotte Laure Laëtitia Dualé
      * 3 Cité Malesherbes, Paris (IXth Arrondissement), October 13th, 1982
      (Born out of wedlock)
    2. Marion Josée Alix Dualé
      * Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, March 29th, 1985
  3. HIH Laure Clémentine Geneviève Napoléon Princess Française
    * Paris (XVIth Arrondissement), October 8th, 1952

    Married:

    Grenoble, Isère, December 23rd, 1982:
    Jean-Claude Pierre Lecomte
    * Ax-les-Thermes, Ariège, March 15th, 1948

    Child from this marriage:

    1. Clément Louis Lecomte
      * Grenoble, Isère, July 7th, 1995
  4. HIH Jérôme Xavier Marie Joseph Victor Napoléon Prince Français
    * Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, January 14th, 1957

Hélène de Witt
* Sousse, November 22nd, 1941

Married:

(civil) Paris (XVIth Arrondissement), October 16th and (religious) Paris (XVIth Arrondissement), October 17th, 1959:
Henri Louis Marie Marquess du Lau d'Allemans
* Paris (XVIth Arrondissement), March 17th, 1925

Children from this marriage:

  1. Jean Vladimir du Lau d'Allemans
    * Montardy par Grand-Brassac near Périgueux, Dordogne, December 18th, 1960

    Married:

    (civil) Fort Worth, Texas, December 18th, 1988 and (religious) Church of Grand-Brassac near Château de Montardy near Périgueux, Dordogne, June 24th, 1989:
    Joy Gould-Ford
    * Dallas, Texas, ...
    (Divorced: Fresno, California, September 25th, 1990; annulled: Bordeaux, Gironde, 1994)

  2. Alexandre Serge du Lau d'Allemans
    * Périgueux, Dordogne, May 19th, 1962

    Married:

    Aillas-le-Vieux, Gironde, July 29th, 1989:
    Christine Schulte ("Christel")
    * Paris, December 2nd, 1965

    Children from this marriage:

    1. Stanislas du Lau d'Allemans
      * Périgueux, Dordogne, February 6th, 1991
    2. Clémentine du Lau d'Allemans
      * Périgueux, Dordogne, April 28th, 1993
    3. Sébastien du Lau d'Allemans
      * Périgueux, Dordogne, February 22nd, 1996
  3. Astrid Françoise Marie Laetitia du Lau d'Allemans
    * Périgueux, Dordogne, September 19th, 1963

    Married:

    (civil) Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, July 5th and (religious) Church of Grand-Brassac near Château de Montardy near Périgueux, Dordogne, September 24th, 1993:
    François-René Letourneur
    * July 5th, 1962

    Children from this marriage:

    1. Lucrétia Letourneur
      * 1995
    2. Hadrien Letourneur
      * February 1999

Baudouin Napoléon de Witt
* Sousse, January 24th, 1947

Married:

Cendrieux, Dordogne, August 24th, 1968:
Isabelle de Rocca-Serra
* Vienna, January 8th, 1950

Children from this marriage:

  1. Alexandra de Witt
    * Castelsarrazin, March 13th, 1969

    Married:

    Cendrieux, Dordogne, July 8th, 1995:
    François de Montaudoüin
    * Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, September 7th, 1958

    Children from this marriage:

    1. Henri de Montaudoüin
      * Paris, September 18th, 1996
    2. Elia de Montaudoüin
      * Paris, December 9th, 1998
    3. Thaïs de Montaudoüin
      * Paris, January 27th, 2001
  2. Jean-Emmanuel de Witt
    * Périgueux, Dordogne, September 2nd, 1970
  3. Laetitia de Witt
    * Périgueux, Dordogne, October 11th, 1974

Footnotes:

  1. With special thanks to Brigitte Gastel Lloyd, Erik Lamote, Netty Leistra and Paul Theroff.
  2. The Headship of the Imperial Family of France is disputed as HIH Prince Louis directed by testament, May 27th, 1996, that the headship of the family should devolve upon his grandson Jean-Christophe, bypassing his own elder son Charles, due to various disagreements with his son.

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