Maria Teresa de Vallabriga

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

María Teresa de Vallabriga, Rozas, Español y Drummond de Melfort (born November 6, 1759 in Saragossa ; † February 26, 1820 there ) was the wife of Luis de Borbón y Farnesio , the younger brother of King Charles III of Spain . ; she had three children with him.

biography

María Teresa de Vallabriga was the daughter of José Ignacio de Vallabriga y Español, Señor de Soliveta , the lieutenant colonel in a volunteer regiment, and Josefa de Rozas y Drummond de Melfort , 4th Countess of Castelblanco, widowed in his first marriage . So she did not belong to the Spanish nobility.

Nothing is known about her youth. On January 18 and June 27, 1776 (the marriage dates are given differently in the various sources), she entered into a morganatic marriage - only sixteen years old - with Luis de Borbón y Farnesio (1727–1785), who was almost 34 years older than her. in order to secure the succession to the throne for his descendants , issued a pragmatic sanction in the same year . In the following years until the death of her husband (1785) she gave birth to three children, the two daughters in the Palace of Velada , because the architectural rigor of the Palacio de la Mosquera in Arenas de San Pedro , designed by Ventura Rodríguez and not yet fully completed , appeared to her probably unbearable. As part of a list of the assets left behind by her husband, a value of seven million reales was determined in 1787, but this mainly consisted of real estate and a large art collection. After marriage, her eldest daughter Maria Teresa de Borbon y Vallabriga with Manuel Godoy in 1797 she received the right to the title of Infanta ( Infanta ); In addition, she was in the - after the wife of the new king , Charles IV. , Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma - named Royal Mary-Louise-orders taken. In the turmoil of the French occupation of Spain and the Spanish War of Independence (1807-1813), she and her daughter María Luisa fled to Palma de Mallorca . In 1813 they both returned to Spain. Not much is known about her later life. She lived in her hometown of Saragossa until her death in 1820, where she is buried in the crypt of the Basilica del Pilar .

photos

There are several portraits of María Teresa de Vallabriga by the hand of Goya (see Commons), who was often a guest of the family and also repeatedly portrayed the other family members.

progeny

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Commons : María Teresa de Vallabriga  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Vallabriga, María Teresa de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Consort of the Infante Luis de Borbón y Farnesio
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaragoza
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1820
Place of death Zaragoza