The Grand-Ducal Family of Luxembourg

House Nassau

The official website of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: Cour grand-ducale de Luxembourg.

The Genealogy of the Grand-Ducal Family of Luxembourg.

For their ancestors go to the Genealogy of the Ducal Family of Nassau.

For the Grand Dukes of Luxembourg between 1815 and 1890 go to the Genealogy of the Royal Family of the Netherlands.

Sovereigns of Luxembourg

The Line of Succession to the Throne

1. HRH Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg (* November 11th, 1981)
2. HRH Prince Felix of Luxembourg (* June 3rd, 1984)
3. HRH Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg (* April 16th, 1992)
4. HRH Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg (* May 1st, 1963)
5. HRH Prince Paul-Louis of Nassau (* March 4th, 1998)
6. HRH Prince Léopold of Nassau (* May 2nd, 2000)
7. HRH Prince Jean of Nassau (* July 13th, 2004)

According to the Luxembourg Constitution the succession to the Throne is regulated by the "Nassauische Erbverein" of 1783, which originally was the Nassau Succession Pact. The succession is semi-salic.
Princes who contract a marriage without consent of the sovereign are - with the descendants from that marriage - excluded from the succession.
Princes are allowed to renounce their right of succession.

Links to other sites with information about the Grand-Ducal Family of Luxembourg

• 10 janvier 2005: décès de S.A.R. la Grande-Duchesse Joséphine-Charlotte.
• Act of 10 July 1907, by which the Family Statute of the House of Nassau of 16 April 1907 gets legal force.
• Chronology of Luxembourg.
• Decree concerning HRH The Grand Duke of Luxembourg's abdication 7 October 2000.
• Descendants of Duke Wilhelm of Nassau. (The father of Grand Duke Adolphe I)
• Dossier "Monarchie". (Articles in French and German)
• Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg.
• Grand-Ducal decree of 18 December 2000 conferring the title of Hereditary Grand Duke to Prince Guillaume.
• Grand Ducal decree of 21 September 1995 concerning the surname and the titles of the Members of the Grand Ducal Family.
• 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.
• 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.
• Le Traité de Londres (1867). (In French only)
• Luxembourg Constitution.
• Luxembourg Genealogy.
• Luxembourg Grand-Ducal Family Tree.
• Luxembourg Grand-Ducal Family Tree.
• Luxembourg Sovereigns since 963.
• Nassau Genealogy.
• Nassau Info.
• Succession in Nassau and Luxemburg.
• The Grand-Ducal Family of Luxembourg.
• The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

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Last updated: November 25th, 2007.