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Philippe, King of the Belgians has the typical royal pedigree from his father’s side of the family. From his mother’s side, there is a lot of Italian nobility with a smattering of Belgian and French ancestors.
The last person on the lists below, Adrienne Jenny Florimonde de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg, one of Philippe’s great-great-great-grandmothers, is the granddaughter of Gilbert Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Better known as just Lafayette in the United States, Philippe’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, commanding American troops in several battles. After returning to France, he was a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830. Lafayette is known as “The Hero of the Two Worlds” for his service to both France and the United States.
Parents, Grandparents, Great-Grandparents, Great-Great-Grandparents, and Great-Great-Great-Grandparents of Philippe, King of the Belgians (born April 15, 1960)
The links below are from Unofficial Royalty, Wikipedia, Leo’s Genealogics Website, or The Peerage.
Parents
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Philippe with his parents
- Albert II, King of the Belgians (born 1934)
- Paola Ruffo di Calabria (born 1937)
Grandparents
Philippe’s paternal grandparents Leopold III and Astrid, King and Queen of the Belgians; Credit – Wikipedia
- Leopold III, King of the Belgians (1901-1983)
- Princess Astrid of Sweden (1905-1935)
- Fulco VIII, Prince Ruffo di Calabria (1884-1946)
- Luisa Gazelli dei Conti di Rossana e di Sebastiano (1896-1989) (link in Italian)
Great-Grandparents
Great-grandparents Prince Carl of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. Through their daughters Märtha and Astrid, they are the ancestors of the current royal families of Belgium, Luxembourg, and Norway; Credit – Wikipedia
- Albert I, King of the Belgians (1875-1934)
- Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria (1876-1965)
- Prince Carl of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland (1861-1951)
- Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878-1958)
- Fulco VII, Prince Ruffo di Calabria (1848-1901)
- Laura Mosselman du Chenoy (1851-1925) (link in Dutch)
- Augusto Gazelli dei Conti di Rossana (1855-1937)
- Maria dei Conti Rignon (1858-1950)
Great-Great-Grandparents
Great-great-grandparents King Oscar II of Sweden and Princess Sophia of Nassau; Credit – Wikipedia
- Prince Philippe of Belgium, Count of Flanders (1837-1905)
- Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1845-1912)
- Duke Karl-Theodor in Bavaria (1839-1909)
- Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857-1943)
- King Oscar II of Sweden (1829-1907)
- Princess Sophia of Nassau (1836-1913)
- King Frederik VIII of Denmark (1843-1912)
- Princess Louise of Sweden (1851-1926)
- Don Fulco Antonio Ruffo di Calabria-Santapau (1801-1848)
- Maria Eleonora Galletti di San Cataldo (1810-1885)
- Theodore Mosselman du Chenoy (1804-1876) (link in Dutch)
- Isabelle Coghen (1822-1891)
- Calisto Gazelli, 3rd Conte di Rossana (1803-1875)
- Francesca Cotti, dei Conti de Ceres (1821-1865)
- Enrico Vittore Felice, Conte Rignon (1828-1914)
- Luisa Perrone di San Martino (1838-1880)
Great-Great-Great-Grandparents
Great-Great-Great-Grandparents King Christian IX of Denmark and Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel. They are the ancestors of six of the ten current European royal families: Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom and two former monarchies Greece and Romania; Credit – Wikipedia
- Leopold I, King of the Belgians (1790-1865) (born Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld)
- Princess Louise-Marie of Orléans (1812-1850)
- Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1811-1885)
- Princess Josephine of Baden (1813-1900)
- Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808-1888)
- Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (1808-1892)
- King Miguel I of Portugal (1802-1866)
- Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1831-1909)
- King Oscar I of Sweden (1799-1859)
- Princess Josephine of Leuchtenberg (1807-1876)
- Wilhelm, Duke of Nassau (1792-1839)
- Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810-1856)
- King Christian IX of Denmark (1818-1906) (born Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg)
- Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817-1898)
- King Carl XV of Sweden (1826-1872)
- Princess Louise of the Netherlands (1828-1871)
- Don Fulco Giordano Antonio Ruffo di Calabria-Santapau, 8th Principe di Scilla, 7th Principe di Palazzolo (1773-1852)
- Maria Felicita Alliata (1783-1842)
- Don Salvatore Galletti di San Cataldo, Principe di Fiumesalato (1786-1828)
- Donna Concetta Platamone, Principessa di Larderia (1787-1843)
- Cornelis François Mosselman (1753-1829)
- Petronella Joanna Muts (1777-1807)
- Jacques André Coghen, Comte Coghen (1791-1858)
- Caroline Rittweger (1799-1885)
- Paolino Gazelli, 2nd Conte di Rossana (1782-1844) (link in Italian)
- Giuseppina Brucco (1789-1865)
- Carlo Emanuele Cotti, 2nd Conte di Ceres (1787-1830)
- Donna Margherita Arese (1798-1828)
- Edoardo, Conte Rignon (1808-1853) (link in Italian)
- Maria Cristina Pilo Boyl (1809-1897)
- Ettore Perrone,, Conte Perrone di San Martino (1789-1849)
- Adrienne Jenny Florimonde de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg (1809-1897) (granddaughter of the Marquis de Lafayette)
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