Grand Dukes of Luxembourg List of monarchs of Luxembourg

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the grand duke of luxembourg (or grand duchess in event of female monarch) head of state of luxembourg. luxembourg world s sovereign extant grand duchy, status luxembourg promoted in 1815 upon unification netherlands under house of orange-nassau.


the luxembourgian constitution defines grand duke s position:



house of orange-nassau

house of nassau-weilburg

under 1783 nassau family pact, territories of nassau family in holy roman empire @ time of pact (luxembourg , nassau) bound semi-salic law, allowed inheritance females or through female line upon extinction of male members of dynasty. when william iii died leaving daughter wilhelmina heir, crown of netherlands, not being bound family pact, passed wilhelmina. however, crown of luxembourg passed male of branch of house of nassau: adolphe, dispossessed duke of nassau , head of branch of nassau-weilburg.


in 1905, grand duke adolphe s younger half-brother, prince nikolaus wilhelm of nassau, died, having left son georg nikolaus, count von merenberg was, however, product of morganatic marriage, , therefore not legally member of house of nassau. in 1907, adolphe s son, william iv, grand duke of luxembourg, obtained passage of law confirming right of eldest daughter, marie-adélaïde, succeed throne in virtue of absence of remaining dynastic males of house of nassau, stipulated in nassau family pact. became grand duchy s first reigning female monarch upon father s death in 1912, , upon own abdication in 1919, succeeded younger sister charlotte, married felix of bourbon-parma, prince of former duchy of parma. charlotte s descendants have since reigned continued dynasty of nassau, , constitute cadet branch of house of bourbon-parma.










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