Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders

Prince Philippe
Count of Flanders
Born	(1837-03-24)24 March 1837 Royal Castle of Laeken, Laeken, Belgium
Died	17 November 1905(1905-11-17) (aged 68) Palace of the Count of Flanders, Brussels, Belgium
Burial	Church of Our Lady of Laeken
Spouse	Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen ​ ​ (m. 1867)​
Issue	Prince Baudouin Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme Princess Joséphine Joséphine, Princess Karl Anton of Hohenzollern Albert I of Belgium
Names French: Philippe Eugène Ferdinand Marie Clément Baudouin Léopold Georges Dutch: Filips Eugeen Ferdinand Marie Clemens Boudewijn Leopold Joris
House	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Father	Leopold I of Belgium
Mother	Louise of Orléans

Prince Philippe of Belgium, Count of Flanders (Dutch: Filips; 24 March 1837 – 17 November 1905), was the third born and second surviving son of King Leopold I of Belgium and Louise d'Orléans. He was the brother of Leopold II of Belgium and Empress Carlota of Mexico.

Born at the Château de Laeken, near Brussels, Belgium, Philippe was created Count of Flanders on 14 December 1840. In January 1869, upon the sudden death of his nephew Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, he became heir presumptive to the Belgian throne. In 1866, after the abdication of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Romania, Philippe refused being named the new Romanian sovereign, and the throne was later accepted by Philippe's brother-in-law Carol I.^[1] Earlier, he had also refused the crown of Greece, which was offered to him in 1862.

Philippe died in 1905. When his brother King Leopold II died in 1909, Philippe's second son ascended the Belgian throne as King Albert I.