page_title: Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: The death of Prince Leopold
context_page_description: Prince Leopold of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, Count of Hainaut, was the second child and only son of King Leopold II of Belgium and his wife, Marie Henriette of Austria, and heir apparent to the Belgian throne.
context_section_description: Leopold died at Laeken or Brussels on 22 January 1869 from pneumonia, after falling into a pond.
  At his son's funeral, King Leopold II "broke down in public, collapsing to his knees beside the coffin and sobbing uncontrollably." Prince Leopold's body was interred at the royal vault at the Church of Our Lady of Laeken in Brussels.
  Leopold's premature death left his father with only two daughters remaining: Princess Louise and Princess Stéphanie. After their son's death, Leopold and Marie Henriette tried to have another child, hoping for a son. After the birth of yet another daughter, Clémentine, in 1872, the couple abandoned all hopes of ever having another son and their already strained marriage broke down completely. 
  Upon his death in 1909, Leopold II was succeeded by his nephew, Albert I, whose eldest son would later succeed him as Leopold III.
caption: The death of Prince Leopold
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