Luxembourg. Information on the Grand Ducal Family

Contents

• The Grand Ducal Family
• Speeches
• Constitutional matters. Succession question
• Genealogy
• Other Hoelseth pages

The Grand Ducal Family

• Cour grand-ducale de Luxembourg (official website)

• Monarchie et famille grand-ducale (Monarchy and the Grand Ducal Family)

• The Line of Succession to the Throne of Luxembourg

• Luxembourgian Sovereigns

• Notre dossier spécial "Décès de S.A.R. la Grande-Duchesse Joséphine-Charlotte (1927-2005)

• Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte's funeral 15 January 2005. Attendance (comes later)

• Avènement au trône de S.A.R. le Grand-Duc Henri (by the Press and Information Service of the Luxembourg Government)

• Palaces in Weilburg

• Die Schlosskirche in Weilburg (information on the crypt where some members of the Ducal House of Nassau and the Grand Ducal House of Luxembourg are buried)

Speeches

• Speech pronounced by His Royal Highness Grand Duke Jean, 6 October 2000

Constitutional matters. Succession question

• Act of 10 July 1907, by which the Family Statute of the House of Nassau of 16 April 1907 gets legal force (in French and German only)

• Grand Ducal decree of 21 September 1995 concerning the surname and the titles of the Members of the Grand Ducal Family (in French only)

• Decree concerning HRH The Grand Duke of Luxembourg's abdication 7 October 2000 (in French only)

• Grand-Ducal decree of 18 December 2000 conferring the title of Hereditary Grand Duke to Prince Guillaume

• Armoires de Son Altesse Royale le Grand Duc (decrees of 23 Feb and 23 June 2001 concerning The Grand Duke's coat-of-arms (in French only)

• Grand-Ducal decree of 27 November 2004 relating to the titles to be carried by Mrs. Julie ONGARO and the descendants resulting from the union with His Royal Highness Prince Robert as well as by the descendants resulting from the union of His Royal Highness Prince Jean with Mrs. Helene VESTUR (in French only)

• Décès de la Grande-Duchesse Joséphine-Charlotte, Déclaration (Mémorial A n° 001 de 10.01.2005)

• Grand Ducal decree of 3 February 2006 modifying the Grand Ducal decree of 21 September 1995 concerning the surname and the titles of the Members of the Grand Ducal Family (in French only)

• Succession in Nassau and Luxembourg (Heraldica.org)

• The Constitution

  The succession to the Grand Ducal throne of Luxembourg is dealt with in the Constitution of 17 October 1868, Article 3:

  The Crown of the Grand Duchy is hereditary in the Nassau family in accordance with the Pact of 30 June 1783, Article 71 of the Treaty of Vienna of 9 June 1815, and Article 1 of the Treaty of London of 11 May 1867.

  The said Treaty of Vienna of 9 June 1815 Article 71 says, in English:

  The right and the command of succession established between the two branches of the house of Nassau by the act of 1783, said Nassauischer Erbverein, are maintained and transferred from the four principalities of Orange-Nassau to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

• Treaty of Vienna 1815
  • Acte du Congrès de Vienne du 9 juin 1815 (the Vienna Treaty in full text; in French only)

  • The Treaty of Vienna. Commentary

• Treaty of London 1867
  • Le Traité de Londres (18 May 1867) - in French (comes later)

  • Le Traité de Londres (1867) - The Treaty of London (1867), cf. The Constitution Art. 3 (comes later)

Genealogy

• An Online Gotha. Luxembourg

• An Online Gotha. Nassau

Other Hoelseth pages

• Nassau

• Hoelseth's Royal Corner

• The main site

This page was last updated on Wednesday 19 May 2010
(first time published at http://www.geocities.com/dagtho/luxembourg.html on Tuesday 24 July 2001).

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