Dukes of Leuchtenberg

Duke of Leuchtenberg was a title created by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria and awarded to his son Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus. Little is known about this title until its re-creation by Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria on 14 November 1817 and awarded to his son-in-law Eugène de Beauharnais. Eugène was the adopted step-son of the deposed Emperor Napoleon I of France, and Eugène had been his heir in Frankfurt and briefly in Italy. King Maximilian Joseph compensated his son-in-law after he lost his other titles and named him heir to the kingdom after the male-line descendants of the royal house and next in precedence after the Royal Family.

The companion title, also in the Bavarian peerage, was Prince of Eichstätt, which was resigned by the 4th Duke to the King of Bavaria in 1855.

Dukes of Leuchtenberg, 18th century to 1817

• Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus

Dukes of Leuchtenberg, 1817 to present

• Eugène de Beauharnais 1817 - 1824 (Royal Highness) (by personal grant)
• Auguste de Beauharnais 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg 1824 - 1835 (Serene Highness), Duke of Santa Cruz (Brazil), first Consort to Queen Maria II of Portugal (created Imperial and Royal Highness by his wife)
• Maximilian de Beauharnais 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg 1835 - 1852 (Imperial Highness)
• Nicholas de Beauharnais 4th Duke of Leuchtenberg 1852 - 1891 (Imperial Highness)
• Eugen de Beauharnais 5th Duke of Leuchtenberg 1891-1901 (Imperial Highness)
• George de Beauharnais 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg 1901-1912 (Imperial Highness)
• Alexander de Beauharnais 7th Duke of Leuchtenberg 1912-1942 (Imperial Highness)
• Sergei de Beauharnais 8th Duke of Leuchtenberg 1942-1974 (Serene Highness) (Title reverted to original form of "Serene Highness" following abolition of Imperial Russian titles in 1918)

Dukes of Leuchtenberg (Russian & Finnish titles, 1890 Russian creation)

On 14 July 1839, Nicholas I of Russia granted the Russian and Finnish style Imperial Highness to the then-Duke of Leuchtenberg, Maximilian de Beauharnais 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg.

Nicholas, 4th Duke of Leuchtenberg, was named as Duke of Leuchtenberg in the Russian Empire in 1890 by Alexander III of Russia, as they were by then members of the extended Russian Imperial Family. This creation elevated the style from Serene to Imperial Highness, and was to be carried by all male line descendants of Nicholas, the incumbent Duke from 1852 to 1891.

The title was largely ceremonial, with no lands or governance attached; the style and title became "Duke von (or of) Leuchtenberg, de Beauharnais."

The current heir to the Dukedom is Nicholas (born 1933).

Genealogy

• Eugène, married Princess Augusta of Bavaria, 7 children including:
  • Auguste, 2nd Duke, Duke of Santa Cruz, married Queen Maria II of Portugal, no issue
  • Maximilian, 3rd Duke, married Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, 7 children, including:
    • Maria, Princess Romanovskaja (1841-1941) married Prince William of Baden (1829-1897)
      • Prince Max of Baden
    • Nicolas Maximilianovitch de Leuchtenberg (4 August 1843 in the datcha of Sergueïvskoïe - 6 January 1891, Paris), 4th Duke (1843-1891), prince Romanowsky, buried in a monastery near St Petersburg. On 5 July 1868 he married Nadedja Annenkov (1840-1891), two children:
      • Nicolas Nicolaïevitch de Leuchtenberg (17 October 1868, Geneva - 2 March 1928, Vaucluse, France), married Maria Nicolaïevna, comtesse Grabee (1869-1948) on 6 September 1894, 7 children, including:
        • Alexandra Nicolaïevna de Leuchtenberg (1895-1960), princess Romanowskaya, in 1916 married Levan Melikov (1893-1928) (divorced), in 1922 married Nicolas Terestchenko (1894-1926)
        • Nicolas Nicolaïevitch de Leuchtenberg (1896, Gori, near Novgorod -1937), married Olga Fomina (1898-1921), on 8 September 1919 at Novotcherkask and then (after her death) remarried on 3 November 1928 at Munich, toÉlisabeth Müller-Himmler (1906-1999), two children by his second marriage:
          • Eugénie Élisabeth de Leuchtenberg (1929-), in 1958 married Martin von Bruch (1911-)
          • Nicolas de Leuchtenberg, on 24 August 1962 married Anne Bügge (1936-), two children:
            • Nicolas Maximilien de Leuchtenberg (1963-2005)
            • Constantin de Leuchtenberg (1965-)
        • Nadedja Nicolaïevna de Leuchtenberg, (1898 Gori, near Novgorod -1962, San Francisco), in 1929 married Alexandre Yakovlevich Mogilevsky (1885, Odessa -1953, Tokyo)
          • Michael Alexandrevich de Beauharnais-Mogilevsky (1929-) married Joan Russell (1931-)
            • Michelle de Beauharnais Mogilevsky (1956-) in 1980 married Jeffre Harrison
            • Anton de Beauharnais Mogilevsky (1960-) in 1995 married Holly Jill Smith (1969-)
            • Andre' Jon de Beauharnais Mogilevsky (1962-) married Kimberly Potter
        • Maximilien Nicolaïevitch de Leuchtenberg (1900-1905)
        • Serge Nicolaïevitch de Leuchtenberg (1903-1966), in 1925 married Anne Maumova (1900-?), (divorced in 1938, 4 children), in 1939 married Kira Wolkova (1915-), (divorced in 1942, 2 children), and finally married Olga Wickberg (1926-)
      • Georges de Leuchtenberg, (1872-1929), prince Romanowsky, in 1895 married Olga Repnina (1872-1953), (6 children).
    • Eugenia Maximilianovna, Princess Romanovskaja (1845-1925) m. Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg (1844-1932)
      • Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg married Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia
    • Eugen Maximilianovich, 5th Duke of Leuchtenberg (1847-1901) m. Daria Opotchinina (1845-1870) m. Zinaida Skobeleva (1878-1899)
    • Sergei Maximilianovich, Duke of Leuchtenberg (1849-1877) Killed in the Russo-Turkish war
    • Georgi Maximilianovich, 6th Duke von Leuchtenberg (1852-1912) m.(1) Duchess Therese Petrovna of Oldenburg (1852-1883) m.(2) Princess Anastasia of Montenegro (1868-1935), 3 children, including:
      • Alexander Georgievich, 7th Duke von Leuchtenberg (1881-1942), married Nadeshda Caralli (1883-1964) on 22 April 1917
      • Sergei Georgievich, 8th Duke von Leuchtenberg (1890-1974)
      • Elena Georgievena, Princess Romanovskaja (1892-1971)
    • Elena Georgievna, Princess Romanovskaja (1845-1925) m. Count Stefan Tyszkiewicz (1896-1976)

External links

• Beauharnais family
• An Online Gotha - Leuchtenberg