Talk:Leopold I of Belgium/Archives/2020/May

Eugène de Beauharnais
According to the article about Eugène de Beauharnais, he died in 1824. This article mentions him being a candidate for Belgian throne in 1829 or 1830. Did they consider a dead person to be a monarch or is there some error in the source interpretation? stjn[ru] 16:01, 6 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Possibly a confusion between Eugène and his son Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg. Per the article on Auguste: "On 4 February 1831 Leuchtenberg was one of three candidates for the throne of the newly independent Belgium, his Napoleonic connections allaying the concerns of some of the Great Powers worried that the breakaway Roman Catholic realm might otherwise ally itself too closely with the likewise Catholic and revolutionary "bourgeois monarchy" of Orléans France. But in the election by the Belgian National Congress, Auguste came in second after the younger son of the King of the French, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, though ahead of the Habsburg candidate, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen. In the event, none of these men attained the Belgian throne, which went to Britain's candidate, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg." Dimadick (talk) 22:07, 6 May 2020 (UTC)


 * I think this might be my mistake. It is clearly Auguste whose name features in the debate. —Brigade Piron (talk) 19:15, 7 May 2020 (UTC)