Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma

Marie Louise Pia Teresa Anna Ferdinanda Francesca Antonietta Margharita Giuseppa Carolina Bianca Lucia Apollonia di Bourbon (born January 17, 1870 in Rome , Italy , † January 31, 1899 in Sofia , Bulgaria ) was Princess of Parma and Princess of Bulgaria.

Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma

Life

Marie Louise was a daughter of Duke Robert I di Borbone of Parma and Maria Pia della Grazia di Borbone , Princess of Naples-Sicily. She was the half sister of Empress Zita of Austria .

Princess Marie Louise married the Prince and later Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria , son of Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Clementine d'Orléans , on April 20, 1893 in the Villa Pianore, near Lucca , Italy.

Princess Marie Louise died on January 31, 1899 at the age of 29, one day after the birth of her fourth child, in Sofia.

progeny

• Boris III of Bulgaria (1894–1943)
• Cyril of Bulgaria (1895–1945)
• Eudoxia Auguste Philippine of Bulgaria (1898–1985)
• Nadejda Klementine Maria von Bulgaria (1899-1958), married on January 24, 1924 in Bad Mergentheim Albrecht Eugen Duke of Württemberg

literature

• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Ferdinand von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha 1861 - 1948 - a cosmopolitan on the Bulgarian throne . Osteuropazentrum Berlin - Verlag (Anthea Verlagsgruppe), Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89998-296-1 pp. 93 - 125 u. a.
• Johann Strauss : Opus 453. Wedding dance. Waltz. Dedicated in deep reverence to Her Royal Highness Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon Parma, Princess of Bulgaria. Pianoforte four hands . Gustav Lewy, No. II.625., 19 S. Lewy, Vienna s. a. (Music printing).

Web links

• † The Princess of Bulgaria. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 12373/1899, February 1, 1899, p. 6 f. (Online at ANNO ). .

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predecessor	Office	Successor
---	Princess of Bulgaria 1893–1899	Eleonore Reuss zu Köstritz