Enrico Lucchesi-Palli, 11th Prince of Campofranco

Enrico was born on 19 August 1861 at Brunnsee Castle in Brunnsee, near Graz in Austria, into the Lucchese-Palli family, an old Italian noble family.^[1] He was the eldest son of Don Adinolfo Lucchesi-Palli, 10th Prince of Campofranco (1840–1911) and Princess Lucrezia Nicoletta Sasso-Ruffo dei principi di Sant' Antimo.^[2] Among his siblings were Carlo Lucchesi-Palli, Pietro Lucchesi-Pailli,^[3] and Gabrielle Lucchesi-Palli (who married Girolamo Brandolini d'Adda, a member of the Brandolini family).^[4]

His paternal grandparents were Ettore Lucchesi-Palli, 4th Duke of Grazia and Princess Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies^[5][a] One aunt, Donna Francesca Lucchesi-Palli, married Carlo Camillo Massimo, 3rd Prince of Arsoli,^[8] while another, Donna Maria Isabella Lucchesi-Palli, married Maximilien, Marquis of Cavriani, and, after his death, Count Giovanni Battista de Conti.^[9] His first cousin, Countess Maria Graziella Zileri dal Verme, married the Jaime Segismundo Álvares Pereira de Melo, the 8th Duke of Cadaval (head of junior Miguelist branch of the House of Braganza).^[5] Another first cousin, Prince Fabrizio Massimo di Roviano, married the Princess Beatrice of Bourbon, daughter of the Carlist Pretender Carlos of Bourbon and Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma.^[10][11] His maternal grandparents were Vincenzo Ruffo, 12th Duke of Bagnara and Sarah Louisa Strachan (a daughter of Sir Richard Strachan, 6th Baronet).^[12] His mother was the older sister of the Prince Ruffo, the head of Motta-Bagnara branch.^[13]

Upon the death of his father in 1911, he succeeded as the 11th Prince of Campofranco and 6th Duke of Grazia.

In 1900, his wife had her grandfather's castle in Kaltern, Sallegg Castle (which Archduke Rainer had acquired in 1851), rebuilt according to plans by the renowned Viennese architect, Anton Weber, into a palace with a lavish garden and courtyard.