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{{Infobox monarchy
{{Infobox official post
| royal_title = Grand Duke
| realm = Luxembourg
| post = Grand Duke of
| body = Luxembourg
| coatofarms = Greater coat of arms of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (2000).svg
| native_name = ''Groussherzog vu Lëtzebuerg''<br />''Grand-duc de Luxembourg''
| coatofarms_article = Coat of arms of Luxembourg#Arms of the monarch{{!}}Arms of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
| image = Henri of Luxembourg (2009).jpg
| insignia = Greater coat of arms of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (2000).svg
| insigniasize = 125px
| insigniacaption = Arms of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
| image = Saeimas priekšsēdētājs Edvards Smiltēns tiekas ar Luksemburgas lielhercogu - 52744479271 (cropped).jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| incumbent = [[Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Henri]]
| incumbent = [[Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Henri]]
| incumbentsince = {{Start date|df=yes|2000|10|7}}
| incumbentsince = 7 October 2000
| style = [[Royal Highness|His Royal Highness]]
| style = His Royal Highness
| residence = [[Berg Castle]], [[Colmar-Berg]]
| type = Hereditary
| heir_apparent = [[Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg]]
| seat = [[Grand Ducal Palace, Luxembourg|Grand Ducal Palace]], [[Luxembourg City]]
| constituting_instrument = [[Constitution of Luxembourg]]
| first_monarch = {{Unbulleted list|[[William I of the Netherlands]] (1815, personal union began)|[[Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg]] (after 1890)}}
| first = [[William I of the Netherlands|William I]], King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
| date = 15 March 1815
| type = [[Head of state]]
| residence = [[Grand Ducal Palace, Luxembourg|Grand Ducal Palace in Luxembourg]]
| flag = Standard of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg.svg
| flagcaption = Standard of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
| succession = [[Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg]]
| flagsize = 125px
| website = {{URL|https://monarchie.lu/en}}
}}
}}


The '''Grand Duke of Luxembourg''' ({{lang-lb|Groussherzog vu Lëtzebuerg}}, {{lang-fr|Grand-duc de Luxembourg}}, {{lang-de|Großherzog von Luxemburg}}) is the [[monarch]]ical [[head of state]] of [[Luxembourg]]. Luxembourg has been a [[grand duchy]] since 15 March 1815, when it was created from territory of the former [[Duchy of Luxembourg]]. It was in [[personal union]] with the [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands]] until 1890 under the [[House of Orange-Nassau]]. Luxembourg is the world's only sovereign grand duchy and since 1815, there have been nine monarchs, including the [[incumbent]], [[Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Henri]].
The Grand Duke of [[Luxembourg]]{{efn|{{langx|lb|Groussherzog vu Lëtzebuerg}}, {{langx|fr|Grand-duc de Luxembourg}}, {{langx|de|Großherzog von Luxemburg}}}} is the [[head of state]] of [[Luxembourg]]. Luxembourg has been a [[grand duchy]] since 15 March 1815, when it was created from territory of the former [[Duchy of Luxembourg]]. It was in [[personal union]] with the [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands]] until 1890 under the [[House of Orange-Nassau]]. Luxembourg is the world's only sovereign [[Grand duchy|Grand Duchy]] and since 1815, there have been nine monarchs, including the [[incumbent]], [[Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Henri]].


==Constitutional role==
==Constitutional role==
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:The grand duke is the head of state, symbol of its unity, and guarantor of national [[independence]]. He exercises [[Executive (government)|executive]] power in accordance with the constitution and the laws of the country.<ref name="Constitution">{{cite web | url=http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/textescoordonnes/recueils/Constitution/constitution_gdl.pdf | title=Constitution de Luxembourg | access-date=2016-04-03| publisher=Service central de législation | language=fr | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009122248/http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/textescoordonnes/recueils/Constitution/constitution_gdl.pdf | archive-date=9 October 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
:The grand duke is the head of state, symbol of its unity, and guarantor of national [[independence]]. He exercises [[Executive (government)|executive]] power in accordance with the constitution and the laws of the country.<ref name="Constitution">{{cite web | url=http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/textescoordonnes/recueils/Constitution/constitution_gdl.pdf | title=Constitution de Luxembourg | access-date=2016-04-03| publisher=Service central de législation | language=fr | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009122248/http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/textescoordonnes/recueils/Constitution/constitution_gdl.pdf | archive-date=9 October 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>


After a constitutional change (to article 34) in December 2008 resulting from Henri's refusal to assent to a law legalizing [[euthanasia]], laws now no longer require the grand duke's formal [[royal assent|assent]] (implying "approval")<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/12/luxembourg-monarchy | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Luxembourg strips monarch of legislative role | date=12 December 2008 | access-date=4 May 2010}}</ref> but his task of [[promulgating]] the law as chief executive remains.
After a constitutional change (to article 34) in December 2008 resulting from Henri's [[veto|refusal]] to assent to a law legalizing [[euthanasia]], laws now no longer require the grand duke's formal [[royal assent|assent]] (implying "approval")<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/12/luxembourg-monarchy | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Luxembourg strips monarch of legislative role | date=12 December 2008 | access-date=4 May 2010}}</ref> but his task of [[promulgating]] the law as chief executive remains.


==Compensation==
==Compensation==
The grand duke does not receive a salary, but the royal family receives annually 300,000 gold francs (€281,000) for grand ducal functions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.monarchie.lu/fr/monarchie/finances/index.html|title = Le budget &#124; Cour grand-ducale}}</ref> In 2017, the Luxembourg budget included €10.1 million for the grand duke's household costs.<ref name="businessinsider_royals">{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/richest-royals-what-europes-royal-families-get-from-their-taxpayers-2017-7?r=UK&IR=T|title=Richest royals: what Europe&#039;s royal families get from their taxpayers – Business Insider}}</ref>
The grand duke does not receive a salary, but the grand ducal family receives annually 300,000 [[gold franc]]s (€281,000) for grand ducal functions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.monarchie.lu/fr/monarchie/finances/index.html|title = Le budget &#124; Cour grand-ducale}}</ref> In 2017, the Luxembourg budget included €10.1 million for the grand duke's household costs.<ref name="businessinsider_royals">{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/richest-royals-what-europes-royal-families-get-from-their-taxpayers-2017-7?r=UK&IR=T|title=Richest royals: what Europe's royal families get from their taxpayers – Business Insider|website=[[Business Insider]] }}</ref>


==Succession==
==Succession==
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Succession to the throne was governed by [[Salic law]], as dictated by the [[Nassau Family Pact]], first adopted on 30 June 1783.<ref name="Constitution" /> The right to reign over Luxembourg was until June 2011 passed by [[agnatic-cognatic primogeniture]] within the [[House of Nassau]], as stipulated under the 1815 [[Congress of Vienna#Elements of the Final Act|Final Act]] of the [[Congress of Vienna]] and as confirmed by the 1867 [[Treaty of London (1867)|Treaty of London]].<ref name="Constitution" /> The Nassau Family Pact itself can be amended by the usual legislative process, having been so on 10 July 1907 to exclude the [[Count of Merenberg]] branch of the House, which was descended from a [[morganatic marriage]].<ref>{{in lang|fr|de}} {{cite web | url=http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/a/archives/1907/0371107/0371107.pdf#page=1 | title=Mémorial A, 1907, No. 37 | access-date=2008-01-14| publisher=Service central de législation | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226204116/http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/a/archives/1907/0371107/0371107.pdf#page=1 | archive-date=26 February 2008 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
Succession to the throne was governed by [[Salic law]], as dictated by the [[Nassau Family Pact]], first adopted on 30 June 1783.<ref name="Constitution" /> The right to reign over Luxembourg was until June 2011 passed by [[agnatic-cognatic primogeniture]] within the [[House of Nassau]], as stipulated under the 1815 [[Congress of Vienna#Elements of the Final Act|Final Act]] of the [[Congress of Vienna]] and as confirmed by the 1867 [[Treaty of London (1867)|Treaty of London]].<ref name="Constitution" /> The Nassau Family Pact itself can be amended by the usual legislative process, having been so on 10 July 1907 to exclude the [[Count of Merenberg]] branch of the House, which was descended from a [[morganatic marriage]].<ref>{{in lang|fr|de}} {{cite web | url=http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/a/archives/1907/0371107/0371107.pdf#page=1 | title=Mémorial A, 1907, No. 37 | access-date=2008-01-14| publisher=Service central de législation | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226204116/http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/a/archives/1907/0371107/0371107.pdf#page=1 | archive-date=26 February 2008 | url-status=dead }}</ref>


An [[heir apparent]] may be granted the style 'hereditary grand duke'. The current heir apparent is [[Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume]]. In June 2011, agnatic primogeniture was replaced with [[absolute primogeniture]], allowing any legitimate female descendants within the House of Nassau to be included in the line of succession.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Ducal succession rights for Grand Duchy |newspaper=Luxemburger Wort |url=http://www.wort.lu/wort/web/en/luxembourg/articles/2011/06/153564/index.php |archive-url=https://archive.is/20121219193039/http://www.wort.lu/wort/web/en/luxembourg/articles/2011/06/153564/index.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 December 2012 |date=21 June 2011 |access-date=11 July 2011 }}</ref>
An [[heir apparent]] may be granted the style 'hereditary grand duke'. The current heir apparent is [[Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume]]. In June 2011, agnatic primogeniture was replaced with [[absolute primogeniture]], allowing any legitimate female descendants within the House of Nassau to be included in the line of succession.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Ducal succession rights for Grand Duchy |newspaper=Luxemburger Wort |url=http://www.wort.lu/wort/web/en/luxembourg/articles/2011/06/153564/index.php |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121219193039/http://www.wort.lu/wort/web/en/luxembourg/articles/2011/06/153564/index.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 December 2012 |date=21 June 2011 |access-date=11 July 2011 }}</ref>


==Full titles==
==Full titles==
The traditional titulatures of the grand duke are ''[[By the Grace of God]], Grand Duke of Luxembourg, [[House of Nassau|Duke of Nassau]], [[Count Palatine of the Rhine]], Count of [[Sayn]], [[Königstein im Taunus|Königstein]], [[Katzenelnbogen]] and [[Diez, Germany|Diez]], Burgrave of [[Hammerstein]], Lord of [[Mahlberg]], [[Wiesbaden]], [[Idstein]], [[Merenberg]], [[Hagen-Hohenlimburg|Limburg]] and [[Eppstein]]''. It should, however, be noted that many of the titles are held without regard to the strict rules of [[Salic law|Salic inheritance]] and that most, save for Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Duke of Nassau, are simply not used.
The traditional titulatures of the Grand Duke are ''[[By the Grace of God]], Grand Duke of Luxembourg, [[House of Nassau|Duke of Nassau]], [[Count Palatine of the Rhine]], Count of [[Sayn]], [[Königstein im Taunus|Königstein]], [[Katzenelnbogen]] and [[Diez, Germany|Diez]], Burgrave of [[Hammerstein]], Lord of [[Mahlberg]], [[Wiesbaden]], [[Idstein]], [[Merenberg]], [[Hagen-Hohenlimburg|Limburg]] and [[Eppstein]]''.


It should, however, be noted that many of the titles are held without regard to the strict rules of [[Salic law|Salic inheritance]] and that most, save for Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Duke of Nassau, are simply not used.
==List of grand dukes==

==List of Grand Dukes==
{{main|List of monarchs of Luxembourg}}
{{main|List of monarchs of Luxembourg}}


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|-
|-
| [[File:William I of the Netherlands.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|center]]
| [[File:William I of the Netherlands.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| '''[[William I of the Netherlands|Guillaume I]]'''<br/>Willem Frederik<br/>(Prince William VI of Orange)
| style="text-align:center;"| '''[[William I of the Netherlands|William I]]'''<br/>Willem Frederik<br/>(Prince William VI of Orange)
| style="text-align:center;"| 24 August 1772
| style="text-align:center;"| 24 August 1772
| style="text-align:center;"| 12 December 1843
| style="text-align:center;"| 12 December 1843
| style="text-align:center;"| 15 March 1815<br/>–<br/>7 October 1840
| style="text-align:center;"| 15 March 1815<br/>–<br/>7 October 1840
| style="text-align:center;"| Francis' third cousin<br/>and<br/>[[Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia|Anne]]'s direct descendant
| style="text-align:center;"| Francis' third cousin<br/>and<br/>[[Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia|Anne, Duchess of Luxembourg]]'s direct descendant
|-
|-
| [[Image:WillemIINL3.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|center]]
| [[Image:WillemIINL3.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| '''[[William II of the Netherlands|Guillaume II]]'''<br/>Willem Frederik George Lodewijk
| style="text-align:center;"| '''[[William II of the Netherlands|William II]]'''<br/>Willem Frederik George Lodewijk
| style="text-align:center;"| 6 December 1792
| style="text-align:center;"| 6 December 1792
| style="text-align:center;"| 17 March 1849
| style="text-align:center;"| 17 March 1849
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|-
|-
| [[File:Willem III (1817-90), koning der Nederlanden, Nicolaas Pieneman, 1856 - Rijksmuseum.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|center]]
| [[File:Willem III (1817-90), koning der Nederlanden, Nicolaas Pieneman, 1856 - Rijksmuseum.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| '''[[William III of the Netherlands|Guillaume III]]'''<br/>Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk
| style="text-align:center;"| '''[[William III of the Netherlands|William III]]'''<br/>Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk
| style="text-align:center;"| 17 February 1817
| style="text-align:center;"| 17 February 1817
| style="text-align:center;"| 23 November 1890
| style="text-align:center;"| 23 November 1890
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| style="text-align:center;"| 24 July 1817<br/>[[Wiesbaden]] ([[Prussia]])
| style="text-align:center;"| 24 July 1817<br/>[[Wiesbaden]] ([[Prussia]])
| style="text-align:center;"| (1) [[Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia|Grand Duchess Elizabeth]]<br/>31 January 1844<br/>[1 child (stillborn)]<br/>(2) [[Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau|Grand Duchess Adelheid-Marie]]<br/>23 April 1851<br/>[5 children]
| style="text-align:center;"| (1) [[Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia|Grand Duchess Elizabeth]]<br/>31 January 1844<br/>[1 child (stillborn)]<br/>(2) [[Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau|Grand Duchess Adelheid-Marie]]<br/>23 April 1851<br/>[5 children]
| style="text-align:center;"| 17 November 1905 ({{age in years|1817|7|24|1905|11|17}})<br/>[[Colmar-Berg]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 17 November 1905 ({{age in years|1817|7|24|1905|11|17}} years)<br/>[[Colmar-Berg]]
| style="text-align:center;"| Third cousin of <br/>William III
| style="text-align:center;"| Third cousin of <br/>William III


|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| '''[[William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Guillaume IV]]'''<br/>17 November 1905 –<br/>25 February 1912
| style="text-align:center;"| '''[[William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|William IV]]'''<br/>17 November 1905 –<br/>25 February 1912
| [[Image:Guillaume IV of Luxembourg.png|frameless|upright=0.45|center]]
| [[Image:Guillaume IV of Luxembourg.png|frameless|upright=0.45|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 22 April 1852<br/>[[Wiesbaden]] ([[Prussia]])
| style="text-align:center;"| 22 April 1852<br/>[[Wiesbaden]] ([[Prussia]])
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|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| '''[[Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Jean]]'''<br/>12 November 1964 –<br/>7 October 2000<br/>''(abdicated)''
| style="text-align:center;"| '''[[Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Jean]]'''<br/>12 November 1964 –<br/>7 October 2000<br/>''(abdicated)''
| [[Image:Grand Duke Jean 29.09.2006.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|center]]
| [[File:GD Jean 1967.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 5 January 1921<br/>[[Colmar-Berg]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 5 January 1921<br/>[[Colmar-Berg]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium|Grand Duchess Joséphine Charlotte]]<br/>9 April 1953<br/>[5 children]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium|Grand Duchess Joséphine Charlotte]]<br/>9 April 1953<br/>[5 children]
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|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| '''[[Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Henri]]'''<br/>7 October 2000 –<br/>present
| style="text-align:center;"| '''[[Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Henri]]'''<br/>7 October 2000 –<br/>present
| [[File:Henri of Luxembourg 2017.jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|center]]
| [[File:Saeimas priekšsēdētājs Edvards Smiltēns tiekas ar Luksemburgas lielhercogu - 52744479271 (cropped).jpg|frameless|upright=0.45|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 16 April 1955<br/>[[Betzdorf, Luxembourg|Betzdorf]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 16 April 1955<br/>[[Betzdorf, Luxembourg|Betzdorf]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg|Grand Duchess Maria Teresa]]<br/>4/14 February 1981<br/>[5 children]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg|Grand Duchess Maria Teresa]]<br/>4/14 February 1981<br/>[5 children]
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==See also==
==See also==
* [[Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg]]
* [[Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg]]

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|Grand Dukes of Luxembourg}}
*{{Commons category-inline|Grand Dukes of Luxembourg}}
* [https://monarchie.lu/en Official website of the Grand Ducal Court of Luxembourg]
{{Luxembourg topics}}
{{Luxembourg topics}}
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Grand Duke of of Luxembourg
Groussherzog vu Lëtzebuerg
Grand-duc de Luxembourg
Arms of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Standard of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Incumbent
Henri
since 7 October 2000
StyleHis Royal Highness
TypeHead of state
ResidenceBerg Castle, Colmar-Berg
SeatGrand Ducal Palace, Luxembourg City
Constituting instrumentConstitution of Luxembourg
First holderWilliam I, King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
SuccessionGuillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Websitemonarchie.lu/en

The Grand Duke of Luxembourg[a] is the head of state of Luxembourg. Luxembourg has been a grand duchy since 15 March 1815, when it was created from territory of the former Duchy of Luxembourg. It was in personal union with the United Kingdom of the Netherlands until 1890 under the House of Orange-Nassau. Luxembourg is the world's only sovereign Grand Duchy and since 1815, there have been nine monarchs, including the incumbent, Henri.

Constitutional role

[edit]

The constitution of Luxembourg defines the grand duke's position:

The grand duke is the head of state, symbol of its unity, and guarantor of national independence. He exercises executive power in accordance with the constitution and the laws of the country.[1]

After a constitutional change (to article 34) in December 2008 resulting from Henri's refusal to assent to a law legalizing euthanasia, laws now no longer require the grand duke's formal assent (implying "approval")[2] but his task of promulgating the law as chief executive remains.

Compensation

[edit]

The grand duke does not receive a salary, but the grand ducal family receives annually 300,000 gold francs (€281,000) for grand ducal functions.[3] In 2017, the Luxembourg budget included €10.1 million for the grand duke's household costs.[4]

Succession

[edit]

Succession to the throne was governed by Salic law, as dictated by the Nassau Family Pact, first adopted on 30 June 1783.[1] The right to reign over Luxembourg was until June 2011 passed by agnatic-cognatic primogeniture within the House of Nassau, as stipulated under the 1815 Final Act of the Congress of Vienna and as confirmed by the 1867 Treaty of London.[1] The Nassau Family Pact itself can be amended by the usual legislative process, having been so on 10 July 1907 to exclude the Count of Merenberg branch of the House, which was descended from a morganatic marriage.[5]

An heir apparent may be granted the style 'hereditary grand duke'. The current heir apparent is Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume. In June 2011, agnatic primogeniture was replaced with absolute primogeniture, allowing any legitimate female descendants within the House of Nassau to be included in the line of succession.[6]

Full titles

[edit]

The traditional titulatures of the Grand Duke are By the Grace of God, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Duke of Nassau, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Count of Sayn, Königstein, Katzenelnbogen and Diez, Burgrave of Hammerstein, Lord of Mahlberg, Wiesbaden, Idstein, Merenberg, Limburg and Eppstein.

It should, however, be noted that many of the titles are held without regard to the strict rules of Salic inheritance and that most, save for Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Duke of Nassau, are simply not used.

List of Grand Dukes

[edit]

House of Orange-Nassau

[edit]
Image Name Date of birth Date of death Reign Relationship with predecessor
William I
Willem Frederik
(Prince William VI of Orange)
24 August 1772 12 December 1843 15 March 1815

7 October 1840
Francis' third cousin
and
Anne, Duchess of Luxembourg's direct descendant
William II
Willem Frederik George Lodewijk
6 December 1792 17 March 1849 7 October 1840

17 March 1849
Son of William I
William III
Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk
17 February 1817 23 November 1890 17 March 1849

23 November 1890
Son of William II

House of Nassau-Weilburg

[edit]

Under the 1783 Nassau Family Pact, those territories of the Nassau family in the Holy Roman Empire at the time of the pact (Luxembourg and Nassau) were bound by semi-Salic law, which allowed inheritance by females or through the female line only upon extinction of male members of the dynasty. When William III died leaving only his daughter Wilhelmina as an heir, the crown of the Netherlands, not being bound by the family pact, passed to Wilhelmina. However, the crown of Luxembourg passed to a male of another branch of the House of Nassau: Adolphe, the dispossessed Duke of Nassau and head of the branch of Nassau-Weilburg.

In 1905, Grand Duke Adolphe's younger half-brother, Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau, died, having left a son Georg Nikolaus, Count von Merenberg who was, however, the product of a morganatic marriage, and therefore not legally a member of the House of Nassau. In 1907, Adolphe's only son, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, obtained passage of a law confirming the right of his eldest daughter, Marie-Adélaïde, to succeed to the throne in virtue of the absence of any remaining dynastic males of the House of Nassau, as originally stipulated in the Nassau Family Pact. She became the grand duchy's first reigning female monarch upon her father's death in 1912, and upon her own abdication in 1919, was succeeded by her younger sister Charlotte, who married Felix of Bourbon-Parma, a prince of the former Duchy of Parma. Charlotte's descendants have since reigned as the continued dynasty of Nassau, and also constitute a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon-Parma.

Name and reign Portrait Birth Family and Marriages Death Succession right
Adolphe
23 November 1890 –
17 November 1905
24 July 1817
Wiesbaden (Prussia)
(1) Grand Duchess Elizabeth
31 January 1844
[1 child (stillborn)]
(2) Grand Duchess Adelheid-Marie
23 April 1851
[5 children]
17 November 1905 (88 years)
Colmar-Berg
Third cousin of
William III
William IV
17 November 1905 –
25 February 1912
22 April 1852
Wiesbaden (Prussia)
Grand Duchess Marie Anne
[6 children]
25 February 1912 (59 years)
Colmar-Berg
Son of
Adolphe
Marie-Adélaïde
25 February 1912 –
14 January 1919
(abdicated)
14 June 1894
Colmar-Berg
Unmarried
[childless]
24 January 1924 (29 years)
Lenggries (Germany)
Daughter of
William IV
Charlotte
14 January 1919 –
12 November 1964
(abdicated)
23 January 1896
Colmar-Berg
Prince Felix
6 November 1919
[6 children]
9 July 1985 (89 years)
Fischbach
Daughter of
William IV /
Sister of
Marie-Adélaïde
Jean
12 November 1964 –
7 October 2000
(abdicated)
5 January 1921
Colmar-Berg
Grand Duchess Joséphine Charlotte
9 April 1953
[5 children]
23 April 2019 (98 years)
Luxembourg City
Son of
Charlotte
Henri
7 October 2000 –
present
16 April 1955
Betzdorf
Grand Duchess Maria Teresa
4/14 February 1981
[5 children]
Living (69 years) Son of
Jean
Henri, Grand Duke of LuxembourgJean, Grand Duke of LuxembourgCharlotte, Grand Duchess of LuxembourgMarie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of LuxembourgWilliam IV, Grand Duke of LuxembourgAdolphe, Grand Duke of LuxembourgWilliam III of the NetherlandsWilliam II of the NetherlandsWilliam I of the Netherlands

Grand ducal consorts

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Luxembourgish: Groussherzog vu Lëtzebuerg, French: Grand-duc de Luxembourg, German: Großherzog von Luxemburg

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Constitution de Luxembourg" (PDF) (in French). Service central de législation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  2. ^ "Luxembourg strips monarch of legislative role". The Guardian. London. 12 December 2008. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  3. ^ "Le budget | Cour grand-ducale".
  4. ^ "Richest royals: what Europe's royal families get from their taxpayers – Business Insider". Business Insider.
  5. ^ (in French and German) "Mémorial A, 1907, No. 37" (PDF). Service central de législation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2008.
  6. ^ "New Ducal succession rights for Grand Duchy". Luxemburger Wort. 21 June 2011. Archived from the original on 19 December 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
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