Editing Count of Wisborg (section)

==The original four Counts of Wisborg==

Four original princes of Sweden were admitted in the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and given the title ''Count of Wisborg'':<ref name="burkes"/>

===First creation (1892–present)===
* [[Prince Oscar Bernadotte|Prince Oscar, Duke of Gotland]] (1859&ndash;1953),  second son of King [[Oscar II of Sweden]]. He married morganatically and gave up his Swedish titles on March 15, 1888. He and his wife were invested with the new titles of Prince and Princess Bernadotte on their wedding day.<ref>''[[Burke's Peerage|Burke's]] Royal Families of the World'' vol. I 1977, p. 512.</ref> It has never been determined if this was a Swedish title of nobility or another form of unofficial courtesy title (such as some later dynasty members have been given by Swedish kings). On 2 April 1892, named as ''Oscar Prince Bernadotte'', he was also given a hereditary title as Count of Wisborg by his uncle [[Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg]], previously Duke of Nassau. Oscar's mother, [[Sophie of Nassau|Queen Sofia of Sweden]], was a half-sister of Grand Duke Adolphe.<ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luxembourg_Grand_Ducal_letters_patent_1892.JPG Lettres Patentes] du Grand Duc Adolphe 1892-04-02</ref> The choice of the ''Wisborg'' title was because Oscar was formerly Duke of [[Gotland]] and the castle of [[Visborg]] (then spelled ''Wisborg'') is in Gotland.

===Extended creation (1951–present)===
* [[Lennart Bernadotte|Prince Lennart, Duke of Småland]] (1909&ndash;2004), only son of [[Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland]] and a grandson of King [[Gustaf V of Sweden]]. He married morganatically and had his Swedish titles prohibited on March 11, 1932. He was given the same titles as his granduncle Oscar by Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg on July 2, 1951.<ref>[http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/a/archives/1951/0048/a048.pdf ''Mémorial''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721210710/http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/a/archives/1951/0048/a048.pdf |date=2015-07-21 }} du Grand Duché de Luxembourg 1951-08-13 p 1135</ref> Lennart styled himself in no other language than German, and then as ''Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Lennart Graf Bernadotte af Wisborg (Professor and multiple honorary doctor Lennart Count Bernadotte of Wisborg)''.
* [[Sigvard Bernadotte|Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland]] (1907&ndash;2002), second son of King [[Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden]]. He married morganatically and had his Swedish titles prohibited on March 8, 1934. He was given the same titles as his cousin Lennart simultaneously by [[Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg|Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg]] on July 2, 1951. On May 28, 1983 Sigvard in Sweden formally announced his title as ''Prince Sigvard Bernadotte''. His nephew King [[Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden]] has consistently declined to respond<ref>[[Marianne Bernadotte]] in ''Glimtar och scener'' [[Norstedts]] Stockholm 1986 {{ISBN|91-1-863442-7}} (Swedish)</ref> and his court has refused to use that title for his uncle.
* [[Carl Johan Bernadotte|Prince Carl Johan, Duke of Dalarna]] (1916&ndash;2012), fourth son of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden. He married morganatically and relinquished his Swedish titles on February 19, 1946. He was ennobled just as his brother Sigvard by Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg on July 2, 1951. He was the last surviving great-grandchild of [[Queen Victoria]] of the United Kingdom. 

A fifth prince of Sweden, [[Prince Carl Bernadotte|Prince Carl, Duke of Östergötland]] (1911&ndash;2003), only son of [[Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland]] and grandson of King Oscar II, married morganatically and relinquished his Swedish titles in 1937. He was given the title ''Prince Bernadotte'' by his brother-in-law King [[Leopold III of Belgium]]. His male-line descendants would have borne the title ''Count Bernadotte'', but in fact his only child is a daughter (Mrs. Madeleine Kogevinas, Countess Madeleine Bernadotte).