Maria Isabella d'Orléans-Montpensier

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Maria Isabella d'Orléans, comtesse de Paris

Princess Maria Isabella d'Orléans-Montpensier, Infanta of Spain (born September 21, 1848 in Seville , † April 23, 1919 in Villamanrique de la Condesa near Seville) was a Franco-Spanish princess and Countess of Paris by marriage .

Life

Maria Isabella was the eldest daughter of Antoine d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier (1824-1890) and his wife, the Infanta Maria Luisa Fernanda of Spain (1832-1897), the youngest daughter of the Spanish King Ferdinand VII and his fourth wife Princess Maria Christina of Naples and Sicily . Her paternal grandfather was the last French king, Louis-Philippe I , also known as the citizen king .

On May 30, 1864 married Infanta Maria Isabella in Kingston-on-Thames her cousin Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans, comte de Paris (1838-1894), eldest son of Ferdinand Philippe and his wife Helene Duchess to Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans, comte de Paris

The marriage had eight children:

Under the first French law in exile, all males from the royal houses of Bourbon and Orléans were prohibited from living in France. From 1864 to 1871 the young couple lived in England, where their first three children were born. After the law was abolished in 1871, they returned to France and lived alternately at the Hôtel Matignon in Paris , Château de Randan and Château de Eu in Normandy . An alleged "fusion" between the Bourbons and the Orléans line came about in August 1873 to the extent that the Count of Paris visited the Count of Chambord in Frohsdorf and recognized the Bourbons as the head of the whole family. But the restoration plan failed because of Chambord's stubborn refusal to recognize the tricolor and to agree a constitution with the National Assembly. (The main line of the House of Bourbon expired in 1883) In 1886 a new law in exile came into force, as her husband was considered to be the pretender to the French throne (Philippe VII) and, for the supporters of the House of Orléans, he was the legal successor of King Louis-Philip I.

After her husband's death in September 1894 in Stowe House , Buckinghamshire Countess Maria Isabella d'Orléans lived alternately in their possession Andalusian Villamanrique de la Condesa and her in the Auvergne nearby Château de Randan . During the First World War , in 1915 she set up a hospital for wounded soldiers on this property. She died on April 23, 1919 at the age of 70 in her Andalusian residence, Villamanrique, near Seville. Her body was first buried in the Saint-Charles-Borromée chapel in Weybridge, Surrey, and in 1958 transferred to the Chapelle royale de Dreux together with the remains of her husband .

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SURNAME Maria Isabella d'Orléans-Montpensier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES d'Orléans-Montpensier, Princess Maria Isabella Infanta of Spain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Spanish princess and, by marriage, Countess of Paris
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Seville
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1919
Place of death Villamanrique de la Condesa near Seville