Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma

Robert Hugo
Duke of Parma
Head of House of Bourbon-Parma
Reign	27 June 1959 – 15 November 1974
Predecessor	Duke Elias
Successor	Duke Xavier
Born	(1909-08-07)7 August 1909 Weilburg, Baden bei Wien
Died	25 November 1974(1974-11-25) (aged 65) Vienna, Austria
House	House of Bourbon-Parma
Father	Elias, Duke of Parma
Mother	Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (Italian: Roberto Ugo di Borbone-Parma; 7 August 1909 – 15 November 1974) was the head of the House of Bourbon-Parma and the pretender to the defunct throne of the Parma between 1959 and 1974.

Biography

Robert Hugo was born at Schloss Weilburg in Baden bei Wien, the second but eldest surviving son of Elias, Duke of Parma and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1882–1940). He succeeded his father Elias as head of the House of Bourbon-Parma upon his death in 1959, and maintained his style until his death in 1974 in Vienna. He died unmarried and without issue, and was succeeded by his half-uncle Xavier.

Honour

• Calabrian House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies Knight Grand Cross of Justice of the Calabrian Two Sicilian Order of Saint George.^[1]

Ancestry

See also

• House of Bourbon-Parma
• Duchy of Parma

Dukes of Parma
Pier Luigi (1545–47) Ottavio (1556–86) Alexander (1586–92) Ranuccio I (1592–1622) Odoardo (1622–46) Ranuccio II (1646–94) Francesco (1694–1727) Antonio (1727–31) Charles I (1731–35) Charles II (1735–40) Maria Theresa (1740–48) Philip (1748–65) Ferdinand (1765–1802) Cambacérès (Parma) (1808-1814) Lebrun (Piacenza) (1808-1814) Marie Louise (1814–47) Charles Louis (1847–49) Charles III (1849–54) Robert I* (1854–1907) Henry* (1907–39) Joseph* (1939–50) Elias* (1950–59) Robert II* (1959–74) Xavier* (1974–77) Carlos Hugo* (1977–2010) Carlos* (2010–)
* denotes titular Duke

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