María de la Paz of Spain
María de la Paz von Bourbón and zu Borbón , Infanta of Spain (born June 23, 1862 in Madrid , † December 4, 1946 at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich ) was Princess of Bavaria by marriage.
Life
María de la Paz was a daughter of Francisco de Asis de Borbón (1822-1902), Duke of Cádiz and his wife to Queen Isabel II of Spain (1830-1904).
As a child, the princess had to go into exile in France with her mother . From there, after the uprising of the Paris Commune and the German occupation in 1871, they fled to Switzerland .
On April 2, 1883, she married her cousin in Madrid, the Bavarian Prince Ludwig Ferdinand , son of Prince Adalbert Wilhelm of Bavaria and his wife Infanta Amalia de Borbón of Spain. The marriage had three children:
- Ferdinand Maria, Prince of Bavaria, Infanta of Spain (1884–1958)
- ⚭ 1906 María Teresa , Infanta of Spain (1882–1912)
- ⚭ 1914 María Luisa de Silva y Fernández de Henestosa (1880–1955)
- Adalbert Alfons Prince of Bavaria (1886–1970), Dr. phil., historian
- ⚭ 1919 Auguste Countess von Seefried auf Buttenheim (1899–1978)
- Maria del Pilar , Princess of Bavaria (1891–1987), painter
In 1918 the monarchy in Bavaria was abolished by the revolution. When the soldiers 'and workers' council was founded, she is said to have commented on this in the family circle with the words, "Now we are all brothers."
After the Second World War , the princess stood up for the Spanish former prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp . These were communists and anarchists (so-called Red Spaniards) who had fled to France from the Franco regime and were later taken prisoner by Germany. After their liberation from the concentration camp, they found help in Nymphenburg Palace. The princess had decreed to help all Spaniards in Munich, regardless of class or political opinion. It was an example of the charitable attitude of the princess, which was explained by her Catholic faith. She also supported the Catholic organizations responsible for orphanages and children's homes and the construction of a hospital for the sisters of the third order , to whom the princess felt a close bond.
The princess was buried on December 7th in the Michaeliskirche in Munich , of which only the outer walls remained after the bombing at that time. The corpse was dressed in the habit of the third order sisters, as the princess wanted. When the coffin was about to be brought into the crypt, several men suddenly emerged, pushed the uniformed undertakers aside and carried the coffin into the coffin, where each of them placed a flower on the coffin. It was Red Spaniards who paid their benefactor one last honor.
Others
The son, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, was the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Spain , for which he was predestined by his Spanish mother due to his personal and family connections.
Just like her son, the Wittelsbach historian Prince Adalbert of Bavaria , his mother María de la Paz was also gifted as a writer. She was also a passionate and talented painter. However, she wrote only for charitable purposes and published, among other things, in 1903 in Herder-Verlag Freiburg under the title In the Eternal City, a description of her previous year's pilgrimage to Rome and her meeting with Pope Leo XIII. The proceeds of the writing went to the Seraphische Liebeswerk Altötting, the children's charity of the Capuchins . In the same writing there is also a photo of her daughter, Princess Pilar, along with a call to support the Catholic “Children's Legion” in Altötting, a sub-organization of the association in which children and young people could do charitable work. In 1917 the princess published her memoirs under the title From my life for the welfare of war survivors .
literature
- Adalbert Prince of Bavaria: Four revolutions and a lot in between. Seventy years from the life of Princess Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, Infanta of Spain . Hans Eder Verlag, Munich, 1932
- Adalbert Prince of Bavaria: At Europe's royal courts. Memoirs of the Infanta Eulalia of Spain 1864–1931 . Robert Lutz's successor Otto Schramm, Stuttgart, 1936
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Carlos Collado Sejdel: Hope died in December , In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 3, 2016 , accessed on December 3, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | María de la Paz of Spain |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bourbón and to Borbón, María de la Paz of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Infanta of Spain, by marriage Princess of Bavaria |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1946 |
| Place of death | Munich |