Duke of Leuchtenberg

Duke of Leuchtenberg was a title created by Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria on 14 November, 1817 and awarded to his son-in-law Eugène de Beauharnais.

Duke of Leuchtenberg, 1817-1974

*Eugène de Beauharnais 1817 - 1824
*Auguste de Beauharnais 1824 - 1835
*Maximilian de Beauharnais 1835 - 1852
*Nicholas de Beauharnais 1852 - 1891
*Eugen de Beauharnais 1891-1901
*George de Beauharnais 1901-1912
*Alexander de Beauharnais 1912-1942
*Sergei de Beauharnais 1942-1974

Heirs since 1974

In 1890 all male line descendants of Nicholas duke from 1852 to 1891 were named Dukes of Leuctenberg by Alexander III of Russia as they were by then members of the extended Russian Imperial Family. The title was mostly nominal. The current heir to Duke Nicholas is his great grandson Nicholas (born 1933).

Genealogy

*Eugène, married Princess Augusta of Bavaria, 7 children including
**Auguste, 2nd Duke
**Maximilian, 3rd Duke, married Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, 7 children, including :
***Nicolas Maximilianovitch de Leuchtenberg (4 August 1843 in the datcha of Sergueïvskoïe - 6 January 1891, Paris), fourth 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), 7th Duke, 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), 8th Duke, 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, 9th and present Duke, on 24 August 1962 married Anne Bügge (1936-), two children:
*******Nicolas Maximilien de Leuchtenberg (1963-)
*******Constantin de Leuchtenberg (1965-)
*****Nadedja Nicolaïevna de Leuchtenberg, (1898-1962), princess Romanowskaya, in 1929 married Alexandre Mogilevsky (1885-1963)
*****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. Alexander of Oldenburg (1844-1932)
***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) Theresa of Oldenburg (1852-1883) m.(2) Anastasia of Montenegro (1868-1935)

External links

* [http://www.chivalricorders.org/royalty/gotha/beaunhis.htm Beauharnais family]
* [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/leuchtenberg.html An Online Gotha - Leuchtenberg]