Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans

Marie Isabelle de Orléans y Borbón
Countess of Paris

The Countess of Paris
Born (1848-09-21)21 September 1848
San Telmo Palace, Seville, Spain
Died 23 April 1919(1919-04-23) (aged 70)
Palacio de Orléans, Villamanrique de la Condesa, Spain
Spouse Prince Philippe, Count of Paris
Issue Amélie, Queen of Portugal
Philippe, Duke of Orléans
Princess Hélène, Duchess of Aosta
Princess Isabelle, Duchess of Guise
Louise, Infanta Carlos of Spain
Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier
Full name
María Isabel Francisca de Asís Antonia Luisa Fernanda Cristina Amelia Felipa Adelaida Josefa Elena Enriqueta Carolina Justina Rufina Gasparina Melchora Baltasara Matea de Orléans y Borbón
House Orléans
Father Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier
Mother Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain

Marie Isabelle de Orléans y de Borbón (María Isabel Francisca de Asís Antonia Luisa Fernanda Cristina Amelia Felipa Adelaida Josefa Elena Enriqueta Carolina Justina Rufina Gasparina Melchora Baltasara Matea; 21 September 1848 23 April 1919) was born an infanta of Spain and a Princess of Orléans and became the Countess of Paris by marriage.

Biography

She was born in Seville to Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier and Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain. Antoine was the youngest son of Louis-Philippe I, the last King of France, and Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies. Infanta Luisa was the daughter of Ferdinand VII of Spain and her grandfather's fourth wife Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies. All four of her grandparents and seven of her eight great-grandparents were members of the French Royal House of Bourbon.

Marriage and issue

On 30 May 1864, she married her cousin Philippe d'Orléans, claimant to the French throne as Philippe VII. They had eight children:

Forced to leave France, Marie Isabelle and her husband first lived in England, where her father Louis-Philippe I had lived after his abdication in 1848. In 1871 they were allowed to return to France, where they lived in the Hôtel Matignon in Paris and in the château d'Eu in Normandy.

In 1886, they were forced to leave France for a second time. In 1894, her husband died in exile at Stowe House in Buckinghamshire. Marie Isabelle lived in the Randan château in France, and died in 1919 at her palace in Villamanrique de la Condesa, near Seville.

Royal styles of
Isabelle, Countess of Paris
Reference style Her Royal Highness
Spoken style Your Royal Highness
Alternative style Ma'am

Titles, styles and honours

Titles and styles

France

Spain

Ancestry

References

Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans
Cadet branch of the House of Bourbon
Born: 21 September 1848 Died: 23 April 1919
Titles in pretence
Vacant
Title last held by
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily
 TITULAR 
Queen Consort of the French
30 May 1864 –8 September 1894
Reason for succession failure:
French Revolution of 1848
Succeeded by
Maria Dorothea of Austria
Preceded by
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este
 TITULAR 
Queen consort of France and Navarre
24 August 1883 – 8 September 1894
Reason for succession failure:
Dynasty deposed in 1830


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