Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset
| Madeleine | |||||
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| Duchess of Parma | |||||
 Madeleine, her husband Xavier and their daughter Marie des Neiges | |||||
| Born | 23 March 1898 Paris, France | ||||
| Died | 1 September 1984 (aged 86) Paris, France | ||||
| Burial | Lignières Castle | ||||
| Spouse | Prince Xavier, Duke of Parma and Piacenza | ||||
| Issue | Princess Marie Françoise Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma Princess María Teresa Princess Cecilia María Princess Marie des Neiges Prince Sixtus Henri | ||||
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| House | Bourbon-Busset | ||||
| Father | Georges de Bourbon-Busset, Count de Lignières | ||||
| Mother | Marie Jeanne de Kerret de Quillien | ||||
Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset (23 March 1898 – 1 September 1984) was the titular Duchess of Parma (from 1974) and was also Carlist queen of Spain (from 1952) as the consort of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne.
Life and family[]
She was born of a cadet branch of the Bourbon Counts of Busset, male-line descendants of Louis de Bourbon (1437–1482), prince du sang, Bishop of Liège,[1] allegedly by a liaison with Catherine de Gueldres.[2] Her father was Georges de Bourbon-Busset, Count de Lignières (1860–1932), and her mother Marie Jeanne née de Kerret-Quillien (1866–1958).[3]
Prince Xavier, a younger son of Robert I, Duke of Parma, and Madeleine were wed on 12 November 1927 at the château de Lignières in Cher.[3] The couple took up residence in the Bourbonnais, where Xavier managed Madeleine's farm lands.[3] The marriage was accepted as dynastic at the time by neither Prince Elias of Bourbon-Parma (Xavier's elder half-brother, then acting head of the House of Bourbon-Parma), nor by the senior Bourbons of the Spanish branch (Alphonso XIII), but was later recognized by the Parmesan Duke Robert Hugo,[1] and by the Carlist pretender Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime.[3]
In 1936, Alfonso Carlos, the last undisputed head of the Carlist movement, appointed her husband Xavier as Carlist "regent". Madeleine actively supported her husband's political activities and social views.[3] Madeleine was the author of "Catherine de Médicis", published in France in 1940.[1]
The couple had issue:[1]
- Princess María Francisca of Bourbon-Parma, born 19 August 1928; married Prince Edouard de Lobkowicz (1926–2010).
- Carlos Hugo of Bourbon, Duke of Parma, (8 April 1930 – 18 August 2010); former Carlist pretender.
- Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma, (28 July 1933 – 26 March 2020). Victim of COVID-19.
- Princess Cecilia María of Bourbon-Parma, (12 April 1935 – 1 September 2021).
- Princess María de las Nieves of Bourbon-Parma, born 29 April 1937.
- Prince Sixto Enrique of Bourbon-Parma, born 22 July 1940.
Ancestry[]
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References and notes[]
- ^ a b c d Enache, Nicolas. La Descendance de Marie-Therese de Habsburg. ICC, Paris, 1996. pp. 416-417, 422. (French). ISBN 2-908003-04-X
- ^ Anselme, Père. ‘’Histoire de la Maison Royale de France’’, tome 4. Editions du Palais-Royal, 1967, Paris. pp. 307, 375. (French).
- ^ a b c d e de Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. ‘’Le Petit Gotha’’. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery, Paris 2002, (French) p. 586-589 ISBN 2-9507974-3-1
- 1898 births
- 1984 deaths
- House of Bourbon-Busset
- House of Bourbon-Parma
- Princesses of Bourbon-Parma
- Duchesses of Parma