Baudouin I of the Belgians

Born Baudouin Albert Charles Léopold Axel Marie Gustave, Prince of Belgium, Comte d’Heinault; styled Duc de Brabant in 1934; succeeded as King of the Belgians after his father’s abdication in 1950.

Son of Léopold III King of the Belgians (1901-1983) by his first wife Astrid Princess of Sweden (1905-1935).

Born: Château du Stuyvenberg, Laeken, Belgium 7. Sep 1930

Godparents: Albert I of the Belgians (paternal grandfather) and Margarethe of Bourbon-Parma, née Princess of Denmark

Married: Brussels 15. Dec 1960 Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón (1928), daughter of Don Gonzalo de Mora y Fernández, Riera y del Olmo, Marqués de Casa Riera, Conde de Mora (1887-1957) and Doña Blanca de Aragón y Carrillo de Albornoz, Barroeta-Aldamar y Elío, Marquesa de Casa Torres (1892-1981).

No issue

Died: Villa Astrida, Motril, Spain 31. Jul 1993 from heart failure

Buried: Église Notre-Dame de Laeken, Brussels

Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürsten I, Vol XVII, Starke Verlag 2004; Georges Dufoux ”Les Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha. Une dynastie mythique”, Fontainbleau 2000