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H.R.H.
Jean I
Grand Duc of Luxembourg

1921-

    
 

    Vita
    Titles and Awards
    Honorary Military Appointments

    Military Service
    Other Military Connections

    Links
 
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Index of Reigns & Peerages
full name:   Jean Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d'Aviano
birth: 1921.01.05 at Château de Berg, Luxembourg
father:   Prince Félix Maria Vincenz de Bourbon de Parme
mother:   Grande-Duchesse Charlotte
marriage: 1953.04.09 Joséphine-Charlotte Ingeborg Elisabeth Maria Josepha Margarethe Astrid, Princess of Belgium [daughter of Leopold III]
children: 1954 Marie Astrid Charlotte Leopoldine Wilhelmine Ingeborg Antonia Elisabeth Anna Alberta, Princess
  1955 Henri Albert Gabriel Felix Marie Guillaume (Grand-Duc)
  1957 Jean Felix Marie Guillaume, Prince
  1957 Margaretha Antonia Marie Félicité, Princess
  1963 Guillaume Marie Louis Christian, Prince
accession: 1964.11.12  
coronation:
abdication: 2000.10.07  
  Titles, Orders and Awards
Titles:
1921.01.05 Hereditary Prince de Luxembourg, Hereditary Prince de Nassau, Prince de Bourbon de Parme (with the style HRH)
1939.01.05 Hereditary Grand Duke de Luxembourg, Hereditary Duke de Nassau, Prince de Bourbon de Parme (with the style HRH)
1964.11.12 Grand Duc de Luxembourg, Duke de Nassau, Prince de Bourbon de Parme, Count de Sayn, Königstein, Katzenelnbogen et de Diez, Viscount d'Hammerstein, Lord de Mahlberg, Wiesbaden, Idstein, Merenberg, Limburg et d'Eppstein (with the style HRH)
1986.07.28 Grand Duc of Luxembourg, Duke de Nassau, Count de Sayn, Königstein, Katzenelnbogen et de Diez, Viscount d'Hammerstein, Lord de Mahlberg, Wiesbaden, Idstein, Merenberg, Limburg et d'Eppstein (with the style HRH; i.e. renounced the title "Prince de Bourbon de Parme" and assumed the surname "Nassau" for himself and his family)
 
British Empire/Commonwealth Orders and Awards:
1972 Knight of the Order of the Garter (KG)
 
   Honorary Military Appointments
1984.08.21 Colonel, Irish Guards [to 2000]
1995.03.17 Honorary General
   
   Military Service
British Army:
  Royal Military College, Sandhurst
1943.07.28 2nd Lieutenant, Irish Guards
1944.03.30 Lieutenant, Irish Guards
1944-1945 Second World War: North-West Europe
1945.05.14 Captain, Irish Guards
1946.06.26 resigned British commission
   
Luxembourg Army:
1939.01.05 Lieutenant
1945.07.17 Colonel
1964.11.12 General
 
   Other Military Connections
   
 
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