Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera


Prince Don Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera, also Prince Bagrat Bagrationi-Mukhraneli and Prince Bagrat Bagration-Moukhransky was a member of the Bagration dynasty which once ruled the Kingdom of Georgia in the Caucasus and a relative of the royal family of Spain.

Background

He was born in Madrid, Spain on 2 February 1949 and named Bagrat Juan María de Fátima de Todos los Santos, the third child of Prince Irakli Bagration-Mukhrani by his third wife, Infanta Doña María de las Mercedes de Baviera y Borbón, a niece of King Alphonso XIII of Spain. His godparents were Don Juan and Princess Doña Mercedes de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Orléans, Count and Countess of Barcelona. His maternal great-grandfather was King Alfonso XII. Prince Jorge de Bagration, a Spanish race car driver and pretender to the throne of Georgia, was his elder half brother.
Although born in Tbilisi, his father left Georgia after completing his studies there, lived briefly in Italy and France, but acquired Spanish citizenship in 1947. His mother had been born in Madrid, and although part of her youth was spent in exile in the Basses Pyrenees of France, Bagrat was raised, along with Jorge and his elder sister Princess Mariam, by his widowed father in Madrid and at the Palacio de Santillana del Mar in Santander.
He was a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Life

Bagrat married Doña María del Carmen de Ulloa y Suelves on 12 November 1976 at San Jerónimo el Real in Madrid. María del Carmen was the daughter of Gonzalo Maria de Ulloa y Ramírez de Haro, Marqués de Castro-Serna, Count de Adanero and of Doña María Josefa de Suelves y Ponsich. From this marriage were born:
The couple were divorced on 16 September 2005, and Bagrat remarried in a civil ceremony to Mme. Françoise Cazaudehore on 7 March 2009 in Saint Germain-en-Laye, France.

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