Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma

Robert Hugo
Duke of Parma
Head of the House of Bourbon-Parma
Tenure	27 June 1959 – 15 November 1974
Predecessor	Duke Elias
Successor	Duke Xavier
Born	7 August 1909 Weilburg Palace, Baden bei Wien, Austria
Died	25 November 1974 (aged 65) Vienna, Austria
Burial	Prinz Bourbon-Parma Gruftkapelle, Neue Glasshütte, near Mönichkirchen, Austria
Names Robert Hugo Rainier Alexis Louis Henry Deodatus Elias Pius Maria
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 Duchy of Parma as Robert II, Duke of Parma between 1959 and 1974.

Life

Robert Hugo was born at the Weilburg Palace 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 agnatic half-uncle Xavier.

Honours

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

Ancestry

• Ancestors of Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma
• 8. Charles III, Duke of Parma
• 4. Robert I, Duke of Parma
• 9. Princess Louise of Artois
• 2. Elias, Duke of Parma
• 10. Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies
• 5. Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
• 11. Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria
• 1. Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma
• 12. Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria
• 6. Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen
• 13. Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria
• 3. Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria
• 14. Rudolf, 11th Duke of Croÿ
• 7. Princess Isabella of Croÿ
• 15. Princess Natalie of Ligne

See also

• Duchy of Parma
• House of Bourbon-Parma