Isabelle d'Orléans-Bragance
Isabelle d'Orléans-Braganza , full name Isabel Maria Amélia Luísa Vitória Teresa Joana Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga de Orléans e Bragança (born August 13, 1911 in Eu Castle in Normandy ; † July 5, 2003 in Paris ) was the boss's wife of the House of Orléans . She carried the courtesy title "Countess of Paris" ( Comtesse de Paris ).
origin
Isabelle was the eldest child of Pedro d'Orléans-Braganza and his wife Elisabeth Countess Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz. On her father's side, she is both a descendant of the citizen king Louis-Philippe and great-granddaughter of the last Brazilian emperor, Pedro II . Isabelle grew up in Brazil (from 1922 the former imperial family was allowed to re-enter the country), in the Czech Republic (her mother's home country) and in Eu Castle in Normandy.
Marriage and offspring
On April 8, 1931, she married her distant cousin Henri d'Orléans in Palermo , who in 1940 succeeded his father as head of the House of Orléans and thus, from an Orléanist point of view, pretender to the French throne and thus became a central figure in the hopes of the French royalists a restoration of the monarchy.
The couple had eleven children:
- Isabelle Marie Laura Victoire (* 1932) ⚭ 1964 Count Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim
- Henri Philippe Pierre Marie (* 1933; † 2019) ⚭ 1957 (divorced 1984) Marie Therese von Württemberg (* 1934)
- Hélène Astrid Léopoldine Marie (* 1934) ⚭ 1957 Count Evrard von Limburg-Styrum
- François Gaston Michel Marie (1935--1960 died)
- Anne Marguerite Brigitta Marie (* 1938) ⚭ 1965 Carlos of Bourbon-Sicily (1938–2015)
- Diane Françoise Maria da Glória (* 1940) ⚭ Carl Herzog von Württemberg (* 1936)
- Michel Joseph Benoît Marie (* 1941) ⚭ 1967 Beatrice Pasquier de Franclieu
- Jacques Jean Jaroslav Marie (* 1941) ⚭ 1969 Garsende Princess of Sabran-Ponteves
- Claude Marie Agnès Cathérine (* 1943)
- ⚭ 1964–1982 with Amadeus von Savoyen (* 1943)
- ⚭ 1982–1996 Arnaldo La Cagnina
- ⚭ 2006 Enrico Gandolfini
- Jeanne Chantal Alice Clothilde Marie (* 1946) ⚭ 1972 Francois Xavier de Sambucy de Sorgue
- Thibaut Louis Denis Humbert Marie (* 1948 - † 1983) ⚭ 1972 Marion Gordon-Orr
Two of her sons died before her; one in the Algerian war , one in a hunting accident.
Since 1950 she lived with her family in Louveciennes near Paris. She hardly took part in her husband's at times intense efforts to restore the monarchy. The couple had been separated since the 1970s.
She was the founder and president of the Musée Louis-Philippe at the Château d'Eu.
Numerous European aristocrats took part in the funeral service on July 11, 2003 in the royal chapel of Dreux . Among the mourners were Fabiola of Belgium , Farah Diba , Franz of Bavaria , Prince Albert of Monaco , the Prince of Liechtenstein and Regina von Habsburg .
Pedigree (3 generations)
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Father: Pedro d'Orléans-Bragança |
Grandfather: Gaston d'Orléans, comte d'Eu |
Great-grandfather: Louis d'Orléans, duc de Nemours |
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Great-grandmother: Viktoria Auguste Antoinette from Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld-Koháry |
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Grandmother: Isabella de Bragança |
Great-grandfather: Peter II. Bragança of Brazil |
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Great grandmother: Teresa Maria Cristina of Naples-Sicily |
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Mother: Elisabeth Countess Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz |
Grandfather: Count Johann Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz |
Great-grandfather: Count Johann Nepomuk Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz |
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Great -grandmother: Maria Friederike Wanczura von Rzehnicz |
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Grandmother: Elisabeth Kottulinsky von Kottulin |
Great-grandfather: Josef Kottulinsky von Kottulin |
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Great-grandmother: Adelheid von Attems-Heiligenkreuz |
Works
(published as Isabelle, comtesse de Paris ):
- Tout m'est bonheur (memories), Editions Robert Laffont, coll. «Vécu», Paris, 1978. ISBN 2-221-00107-9 .
- Les Chemins creux (Memories, continuation of Tout m'est bonheur ), Editions Robert Laffont, coll. “Vécu”, Paris, 1981. ISBN 2-221-00817-0 .
- Blanche de Castille, mon aïeule (biography), Editions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1991. ISBN 2-221-07093-3 .
- Moi, Marie-Antoinette (novel biography), Editions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1993. ISBN 2-221-07485-8 .
- La pure Marie-Amélie [texts imprimé]: grand-mère de l'Europe (biography), Éditions Perrin, Paris, 1998. ISBN 2-262-01451-5 .
- L'album de ma vie (Memories, in collaboration with Cyrille Boulay), Editions Perrin, coll. "Les Souvenirs du Gotha", Paris, 2002. ISBN 2-262-01832-4 .
literature
The Times , August 4, 2003
Web links
- Princesse Isabelle d'Orléans-Bragance, comtesse de Paris (French)
- Louis-Philippe Museum in the Château d'Eu in Normandy
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=royals&id=I24329
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jul/12/guardianobituaries1
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Orléans-Bragance, Isabelle d ' |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Orléans e Bragança, Isabel Maria Amélia Luísa Vitória Teresa Joana Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author, wife of the head of the House of Orléans |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castle Eu , Normandy |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 2003 |
| Place of death | Paris |