Line of succession to the former Oldenburger throne

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Grand Ducal Family of Oldenburg

HRH The Duke HRH The Duchess HRH Duke Alexander HH Duke Philipp HH Duke Anton Friedrich HH Duchess Katharina HRH The Dowager Duchess HH Duchess Helene Extended family HH Duke Peter HH Duke Friedrich August HH Duchess Belinda HH Duchess Anastasia HH Duchess Alice HH Duchess Cara HH Duke Nikolaus HH Duchess Anna HH Duke Christoph HH Duke Georg HH Duke Oscar HH Duke Georg Moritz HH Duchess Margarete, Princess Philipp von Croÿ HH Duke Egilmar HH Duke Friedrich August HH Duke Paul-Wladimir HH Duchess Maria del Pilar HH Duke Kirill HH Duke Carlos HH Duke Paul HH Duchess Maria Assunta HH Duchess Rixa, Mrs. Sanders HH Duchess Bibiane, Mrs. Dorner HH Duke Huno HH Duchess Felicitas-Anita HH Duchess Beatrix, Mrs. von Storch HH Duchess Sophie, Mrs. von Radowitz HH Duke Johann HH Duchess Ilka HH Duke Konstantin Nikolaus HH Duchess Esther HI&RH Archduchess Eilika of Austria HH Duchess Tatjana, Countess Axel de Chavagnac HH The Dowager Princess of Leiningen HH The Baroness of Erffa

The grand-ducal family of Oldenburg is the junior most branch of the House of Holstein-Gottorp, the junior most branch of the House of Oldenburg. The law of succession of the family is agnatic primogeniture, allowing only males born out of an approved marriage and of a male line to succeed. The current head of the grand-ducal family of Oldenburg is Christian, styled as His Royal Highness The Duke of Oldenburg. The family ruled the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg until 1918, when the last Grand Duke, Frederick Augustus II, was forced to abdicate in the German Revolution.

On 11 August 1903, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia renounced, in favour of Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, the rights of members of the Imperial House (that of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov) to succeed to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.^[1] Therefore, should the line of succession presented below be extinguished, the headship of the grand-ducal family would fall to the male descendants of Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, as the result of an Oldenburg law dated 19 October 1904.^[2]

Present line of succession

Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1852-1931)
- Nicholas, Duke of Oldenburg (1897-1970)
  - Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (1923-2014)
    - Christian, Duke of Oldenburg (born 1955)
      - (1) Duke Alexander (born 1990)
      - (2) Duke Philipp (born 1991)
      - (3) Duke Anton Friedrich (born 1993)
  - (4) Duke Peter (born 1926)
    - (5) Duke Friedrich August (born 1952)
    - (6) Duke Nikolaus (born 1955)
      - (7) Duke Christoph (born 1985)
      - (8) Duke Georg (born 1990)
      - (9) Duke Oscar (born 1991)
    - (10) Duke Georg Moritz (born 1957)
  - (11) Duke Friedrich August (born 1936)
    - (12) Duke Paul-Wladimir (born 1969)
      - (13) Duke Kirill (born 2002)
      - (14) Duke Carlos (born 2004)
      - (15) Duke Paul (born 2005)
  - (16) Duke Huno (born 1940)
  - (17) Duke Johann (born 1940)
    - (18) Duke Konstantin Nikolaus (born 1975)

References

↑ "Czar Renounces a Grand Duchy". New York Times. 10 March 1904. p. 9.
↑ Almanach de Gotha (186th ed.). 2003. pp. 167, 168. ISBN 0-9532142-4-9.

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