Royal House of Bourbon Two Sicilies - Sacred Military Constantinian Order

Therefore Charles Maria renounced his rights for himself and his lineage in full awareness and with no conditions. Moreover «not even the mention of a renunciation of future succession rights could have had sense since the acceptation of consequences ensuing from the renunciation had been clear, and it had been repeated also on the occasion of the implementation of the Count of Caserta’s testament clauses and last will in 1934. Article 702 of the Code of Civil Laws of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies already sanctioned: "the heir that renounces is considered as he never had been heir", and article 704 stated: "an heir who renounced would never been taken into consideration for the succession". These rules find full confirmation in the French and Italian doctrines of that time as well as in the dynastic right of the Kingdom codified in the Constitution of Ferdinand II. Everybody knows that Francis II re-established this Constitution by his Sovereign Deed of 1 July 1860».

Official Deed of the Kingdom of Spain by which HRH Prince Charless became member of the Royal House and Family of Bourbon-Spain ( italian version).

As further confirmation of what above, we must add that in his letter to the Regent Queen of Spain dated 6 October 1900, Alfonso Count of Caserta clearly explained the terms his son Charles would abide to in case of his marriage to the Infant of Spain, and one of these terms was, as Gallo wrote «a clear, final and unequivocal renunciation of all his membership rights to the dynasty of the Two Sicilies; the entrance in the Royal House of Spain and the position as Spanish Princes for his lineage "se trouvera déjà établi à leur naissance et par le fait même de leur naissance"». The author also said: «And the Infant fulfilled his duties and thirty years later implemented his father’s testament clauses" . However, there is not even a "Spanish descent" in the Bourbon Family of the Two Sicilies: there is a Spanish lineage of the Bourbon Family: but the lineage of the Two Sicilies has no other ramifications than the one deriving from King Ferdinand, son of King Charles III who ascending the Throne of Spain on 6 October 1759 forever renounced that of the Two Sicilies in favour of his son and his son’s lineage».

Another objection raised by some people concerns the fact that from the renunciation of Cannes we should exclude the renunciation to the Constantinian Magistery.
Also in this case we make recourse to the unquestionable authority of Ettore Gallo: «We can reply to this question that, as we saw, the personal union of the Throne and the Grand Magistery has always marked the lineage of the dynasty of the Two Sicilies at juridical and historical level and this was even more true after 1860, when the Constantinian Magistery remained the sole concrete and royal asset of an independent power released from all sovereign states and internationally acknowledged».
However, the recent judgement issued by the Italian State Council is fundamental to this matter, because it finally closed all disputes on the claim of the prince of the Spanish Family detailed in an Opinion dated 26 November 1981. This judgement says: «Even after the transfer of its material assets to the State Property, the Constantinian Order remained part of the family assets of the above mentioned House now headed by Ferdinand Duke of Castro as knightly, religious and military order».
Ettore Gallo concluded: «On this matter, however, the most famous and important legal experts gave their opinions and concluded that the present Duke of Castro and Head of the Dynasty, Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon Two Sicilies, is the sole and lawful dynastic heir of the Grand Magistery of the Constantinian Militia».