Head of the House

H.R.H. Don Francesco Nicola Roberto Paternò Castello e Guttadauro Ayerbe Aragona, Noble of the Dukes of Carcaci; Prince of Emmanuel and Duke of Perpignan, Prince Royal of Aragon and Head of Name and Arms of the Royal House of Aragon, Majorca and Sicily; by the Grace of God and Hereditary Right legitimate Pretender to the Crowns of Aragon, Majorca and Sicily, Prince of Catalonia, Count of Cerdagne, Count of Roussillon, Patrician of Catania, Lord of Valencia. Lord of Montpellier, Count of Urgell, Viscount Carlades, Baron of Ayerbe; Sovereign Grand Master of the Royal Order of Saint George and the Double Crown, Grand Master of the Military Order of the Collar of Saint Agatha of Paternò, Grand Master of the Order of the Royal Balearic Crown, Grand Master of the Royal Order of James I of Aragon, Grand Master of the Order of San Salvador of Aragon; Sovereign of the Royal Order of Saint Isabel of Aragon.

Born in Catania the 6th June 1964; married N.D. Giuseppa Campisi; succeeded his father as Head of the Royal House by a notarial act of the 10th March 1996.