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Chambord, Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné, comte de (äNrē` shärl fĕrdēnäN` märē` dyödônā` kôNt də shäNbôr`), 1820–83, Bourbon Bourbon (b
..... Click the link for more information. claimant to the French throne, posthumous son of Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry Berry, Charles Ferdinand, duc de (shärl fĕrdēnäN`, dük də bĕrē`)
..... Click the link for more information. . His original title was duke of Bordeaux. His grandfather, Charles X, abdicated in his favor during the Revolution of 1830, and he is known to the legitimists as Henry V, although he never held the throne. He accompanied Charles into exile and spent most of the rest of his life at Frohsdorf, Austria. In 1832 his mother, Caroline de Berry Berry, Caroline Ferdinande Louise, duchesse de
..... Click the link for more information. , unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Louis Philippe. Efforts to reconcile his claims with those of the Orleanist pretender, Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans (see under Orléans Philippe I, duc d'Orléans, 1640–1701, a brother of King Louis XIV. A notorious libertine, Philippe was excluded from participation in state affairs, though he fought in the Dutch War and won the victory of Cassel (1677).
..... Click the link for more information. , family), after the February Revolution of 1848, met with little success. In 1871, after the fall of the Second Empire, Chambord's prospects improved, and in 1873 the Orleanist pretender relinquished his claims in Chambord's favor. However, his stubborn adherence to the Bourbon flag in preference to the national flag, destroyed his chance of recognition. He died without issue, and his claims passed to the house of Bourbon-Orléans.

Bibliography

See biography by M. L. Brown, Jr. (1967).