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Duchess of Montpensier
Infanta María Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier (French: Marie Louise Ferdinande ; 30 January 1832 – 2 February 1897) was the younger daughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain and his fourth wife and niece, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies . She became Duchess of Montpensier by marriage to her first cousin once removed, Antoine, Duke of Montpensier .
Biography
Heiress-presumptive
Luisa Fernanda as a young girl (by Vicente López Portaña , 1842) When her elder sister Isabella II of Spain succeeded to the throne, Infanta Luisa Fernanda was heir presumptive to the crown between 1833 and 1851, when Isabella's oldest surviving daughter was born.
Marriage
Further information: Affair of the Spanish Marriages
Luisa Fernanda, 1851 Luisa Fernanda was engaged to the Duke of Montpensier , the youngest son of King Louis Philippe , who also was Luisa's mother's first cousin.
Luisa Fernanda, only 14 years old, and Antoine, 22, had their nuptials on 10 October 1846 as a double wedding with Isabella and Francis, and young Antoine was elevated to the rank of an Infante of Spain . The couple moved to Paris and later to Seville . The relationship between Isabella and her sister was tense, due to Antoine's conspiracies against the queen.
Antoine's father was deposed in 1848. The same year, the then 16-year-old Luisa Fernanda gave birth to their first child, Maria Isabel. After Isabella was deposed, the family went into exile. Luisa returned to Seville years later, already widowed, where she died. She is buried at Escorial .
The Parque de María Luisa was named after her.
Issue
Infanta Luisa Fernanda with her husband the Duke of Montpensier and four of their children. Luisa Fernanda and Antoine had ten children, but only five of them reached adulthood.
Infanta Maria Isabel (1848–1919); married her first cousin Prince Philippe, Count of Paris (1838–1894), the French claimant, and became known as Madame the comtesse de Paris . She had several children, including Princess Louise of Orléans , the maternal grandmother of King Juan Carlos I .Infanta Maria Amelia (1851–1870)Infanta Maria Cristina (1852–1879); after her younger sister Mercedes died, she was engaged to King Alfonso XII (1857–1885), five years her junior, but she died before the wedding.Infanta Maria de la Regla (1856–1861)
Stillborn child (1857–1857)
Infante Fernando (1859–1873)
Infanta Maria de las Mercedes (1860–1878), otherwise Princess Marie des Graces d'Orleans-Montpensier , who married her first cousin Alfonso XII and is historically known as Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain . Without issue.Infante Felipe Raimundo Maria (1862–1864)
Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera (1866–1930); became Duke of Galliera in Italy. He married his first cousin Infanta Eulalia of Spain (1864–1958), daughter of Isabella II, and had two sons: Infante Alfonso and Infante Luís .Infante Luis Maria Felipe Antonio (1867–1874) Descendants
Portrait of Luisa Fernanda in 1847 (by Franz Xaver Winterhalter ) Of all her children, only Marie Isabelle and Antonio survived to adulthood. Through Antonio, the now non-royal line of dukes of Galliera continues. Alfonso's grandchildren lost royal status due to non-dynastic marriages. The current Duke of Galliera is Alfonso's great-grandson, Don Alfonso Francesco de Orléans-Borbón y Ferarra-Pignatelli.
Through Maria Isabel, she became great-grandmother of king Manuel II of Portugal , Amedeo, Duke of Aosta , Aimone, Duke of Spoleto , and Luis Filipe, Duke of Braganza ; great-great-grandmother of Juan Carlos I of Spain and Henri, Count of Paris .
Arms
Heraldry of Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier
Arms of alliance of Infanta Luisa Fernanda and her husband
Ancestry
Ancestors of Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain
References
^ Archived November 2, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
Secreta, Sevilla (20 October 2020). "La trágica historia de María Luisa, la mujer que da nombre al parque" . Sevilla Secreta (in European Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2022.
^ "HRH Infanta Doña Luisa Fernanda and her descendants" . Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2006.{{cite web }}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )
^ Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Ferdinand VII. of Spain" . Encyclopædia Britannica
^ Ortúzar Castañer, Trinidad. "María Cristina de Borbón dos Sicilias" . Diccionario biográfico España (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia .
^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living ] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 9.
^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living ] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 96.
^ Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Francis I. of the Two Sicilies" . Encyclopædia Britannica
^ Navarrete Martínez, Esperanza. "María de la O Isabel de Borbón" . Diccionario biográfico España (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia . Archived from the original on 2 August 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
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