Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier

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Infanta Luisa Fernanda
Duchess of Montpensier
F. de Madrazo - 1851, La infanta Luisa Fernanda de Borbón, Duquesa de Montpensier (Palacio Real de Madrid, 220 x 128 cm).jpg
Portrait by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1851
Born(1832-01-30)30 January 1832
Royal Palace of Madrid, Spain
Died2 February 1897(1897-02-02) (aged 65)
San Telmo Palace, Seville, Spain
Burial(1897-02-02)2 February 1897
Infantes Pantheon, Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
Spouse
Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier
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(m. 1846; died 1890)​
Issue
among others...		Infanta Isabel, Countess of Paris
Infanta Maria Amelia
Infanta María Cristina
Infanta Maria de la Regla
Infante Fernando
Mercedes, Queen of Spain
Infante Felipe
Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera
Infante Luis
Names
Spanish: María Luisa Fernanda de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias
HouseBourbon
FatherFerdinand VII of Spain
MotherMaria Christina of the Two Sicilies
ReligionRoman Catholicism
SignatureInfanta Luisa Fernanda's signature
Royal styles of
Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain,
Duchess of Montpensier
Reference styleHer Royal Highness
Spoken styleYour Royal Highness

Infanta María Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier (30 January 1832 – 2 February 1897) was Infanta of Spain and Duchess of Montpensier. She was the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain and his fourth wife Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, the queen-regent, who was also his niece.

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[]

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 Sevilla. The relationship between Isabella and her sister was tense, due to Antoine's conspiracies against the queen.[1]

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 Sevilla years later, already widowed, where she died.[1] She is buried at Escorial.

Children[]

Infanta Luisa Fernanda with her husband Duke of Montpensier and four of their children.

Luisa Fernanda and Antoine had nine children, but only six of them reached adulthood.[2][unreliable source?]

  • Infanta Maria Isabel (1848–1919), who married her first cousin Philippe, comte de 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 Alfonso XII, five years her junior, but she died before the wedding.
  • Infanta Maria de la Regla (1856–1861).
  • [?] (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. No children.
  • 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[]

Luisa Fernanda in 1847.

Of all her children, just Isabelle de Paris and Antonio di Galliera left children. Through Antonio, the now non-royal line of dukes di Galliera continues. Alfonso's grandchildren lost royal status due to non-dynastic marriages. The current Duke di Galliera is Alfonso's great-grandson, Don Alfonso Francesco de Orléans-Borbón y Ferarra-Pignatelli.[2]

Through Marie Isabelle, 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

  • Coat of arms of Infanta Luisa Fernanda

  • Arms of alliance of Infanta Luisa Fernanda and her husband

  • Arms as Duchess Dowager

Ancestry[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b [1] Archived November 2, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "HRH Infanta Doña Luisa Fernanda and her descendants". Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. Retrieved 2006-07-06.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ferdinand VII. of Spain" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Ortúzar Castañer, Trinidad. "María Cristina de Borbón dos Sicilias". Diccionario biográfico España (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b 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.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b 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.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Francis I. of the Two Sicilies" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Navarrete Martínez, Esperanza. "María de la O Isabel de Borbón". Diccionario biográfico España (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia.
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