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Henri Dieudonné d’Artois, count de Chambord, (born Sept. 29, 1820, Paris, France—died Aug. 24, 1883, Frohsdorf, Austria), last heir of the elder branch of the Bourbons and, as Henry V, pretender to the French throne from 1830.

Henri d’Artois, Duke of Bordeaux and Count of Chambord, was the last representative of the senior branch of the French Bourbon kings. Born to great fanfare as a presumed heir of the French throne, he lost his royal privilege when his grandfather, King Charles X, was compelled to abdicate in 1830. Henri lived the rest of his life in exile.

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Therefore, according to primogeniture rules, Henri, Count de Chambord was the Heir-Male of Louis XIV and also the Legitimist claimant of the throne of France. The Spanish Line [ edit ] Henry, Count of Chambord died childless on 24 August 1883.

He received the title of Duke of Bordeaux, but is known and usually referred to as Count of Chambord. On August 2, 1830, during the July Revolution and after the successive abdications of Charles X and his son Louis Antoine Duke of Angoulême, Henri, next in line to accede to the throne, was proclaimed King of France under the name of Henri V.