Maria Teresa de Borbon y Vallabriga

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María Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga - Portrait of Francisco de Goya (1800)

María Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga (born November 26, 1780 in Velada , Toledo province , † November 24, 1828 in Paris ) was - by resigning from office - the 15th Countess of Chinchón and 1st Margravine ( marquesa ) of Boadilla del Monte .

Life

María Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga - Portrait of Francisco de Goya (1783)

María Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga was the second child of the morganatic marriage between Luis de Borbón y Farnesio and María Teresa de Vallabriga - after her brother Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga , who was two and a half years older . She spent the first five years of her life in the Palacio del Infante don Luis in Boadilla del Monte and in the not yet fully completed Palacio de la Mosquera in Arenas de San Pedro . The painter Francisco de Goya was a frequent guest in both castles and repeatedly portrayed her and her family. After the early death of her father, she and her younger sister spent twelve years in the Convento de San Clemente in Toledo until, in 1797, at the instigation of Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma , the wife of her royal cousin Charles IV (r. 1788-1808 ), whose first minister was Manuel de Godoy , who at the same time was the queen's lover and also had a mistress named Pepita Tudó . To compensate for the arranged marriage, she and her siblings were allowed to continue using the family name 'Borbón', which she did under her uncle Charles III. had been banned; in addition, she received a handsome apanage .

Despite an unhappy marriage - her husband constantly complained about her idiosyncratic character in his letters to the Queen - their daughter Carlota Luisa de Godoy y Borbón was born in October 1800 . In 1804, however, she turned to her brother Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga , the Archbishop of Toledo , with the idea of ​​leaving the family for assistance. This, however, appeased his sister with the title of Countess of Chinchón .

Burial chamber, Palacio del Infante don Luis .

After the invasion of French troops, the abdication of Charles IV, demanded by the people, and the accession to the throne of his bitter opponent Ferdinand VII in the spring of 1808, Manuel de Godoy was placed under house arrest and María Teresa fled to the side of her brother in Toledo and accompanied him for several years Journey (1809–1812) to unoccupied Andalusia , where he co-signed the liberal constitution of Cádiz . As a result, both lost their state allowances and church salaries. The following years of María Teresa's life are in the dark - but she never saw her hated husband again; rather, the marriage was declared invalid by Pope Pius VII at the instigation of Manuel Godoy and the Spanish ex-king Charles IV . In 1820 her mother died in Zaragoza; María Teresa may have been present at her funeral. A year later, their daughter Carlota married the Italian Prince Camillo Ruspoli von Khevenhüller-Metsch .

Her brother Luis María died completely unexpectedly in 1823 - so María Teresa went to Paris the following year, where her younger sister and her husband were already staying. She got involved in an affair with a colonel who lived at her own expense. In 1828 she was diagnosed with abdominal cancer, of which she died on November 24th of the same year; she was buried in the chapel of the Palacio del Infante don Luis in Boadilla del Monte . Shortly afterwards, her husband Manuel de Godoy married his long-time lover Pepita Tudó.

Others

Parts of her biography were filmed in the 1999 film Volavérunt directed by Bigas Luna . The role of Pepita Tudó was played by Penélope Cruz .

literature

  • José Luis Vila-San-Juan: Los Borbones en España - Cunas, bodas y mortajas. Plaza & Janés, Barcelona 1998, ISBN 84-01-55011-4 .

Web links

Commons : María Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. March 6, 1779 and January 26, 1780 are also given as dates of birth