Prince Edouard-Xavier de Lobkowicz

Prince Edouard-Xavier
Born(1960-10-18)18 October 1960
Paris, France
Died27 April 1984(1984-04-27) (aged 23)
Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne,
France
Names
Marie Edouard-Xavier Ferdinand Auguste Gaspard de Lobkowicz
HouseLobkowicz
FatherPrince Edouard de Lobkowicz
MotherPrincess Marie-Françoise of Bourbon-Parma
Occupationmilitary officer

Prince Marie Edouard-Xavier Ferdinand Auguste Gaspard de Lobkowicz (18 October 1960 – 27 April 1984) was a French aristocrat, military officer, and murder victim. The eldest son of Prince Edouard de Lobkowicz and Princess Marie Françoise of Bourbon-Parma, he was a member of the Lobkowicz family and a descendent of the House of Bourbon-Parma the House of Bourbon-Busset. Prince Edouard-Xavier was a trained paratrooper who served as a lieutenant in the Reserve of the French Army and was a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

On 2 April 1984, Prince Edouard-Xavier went missing. A few weeks later, on 27 April 1984, his body was discovered in the Seine. An autopsy revealed that he had been murdered, with a gunshot wound in the throat and left shoulder blade.