Isabelle of Orléans, countess of Harcourt

HRH Princess Isabelle Françoise Hélène Marie of Orléans, countess of Harcourt (27 November 1900, Nouvion-en-Thiérache, France - 12 February 1983, Neuilly, France).

The daughter of Jean d'Orléans, duc de Guise (1874-1940), Orleanist pretender to the French throne, and his wife Princess Isabelle d'Orléans.

She married at Le Chesnay, on 12 september 1903, French aristocrat Bruno, Count of Harcourt (1899-1930), son of Count Eugene of Harcourt and Armande of Pierre de Bernis. Bruno was an automobile racer and he died on a practice for the Moroccan Grand Prix.

They had four children:

* Bernard d'Harcourt, Count of Harcourt (1925-1958).
* Gilone d'Harcourt (1927), who married Antoine of Dreux-Brézé.
* Isabelle d'Harcourt (1927-1993), who married prince Louis Murat.
* Monique d'Harcourt (1929).

As a widow, Isabelle remarried Prince Pierre Murat (1900-1948) in 1934, at Jouy-en-Josas.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Isabelle of Orléans, Countess of Harcourt
2= 2. Jean, Duke of Guise
3= 3. Isabelle of Orléans
4= 4. Robert, Duke of Chartres
5= 5. Françoise of Orléans
6= 6. Philippe, Count of Paris
7= 7. Maria Isabel of Orléans
8= 8. Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans
9= 9. Hélène of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
10= 10. François, Prince of Joinville
11= 11. Francisca of Brazil
12= 12. Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans (= 8)
13= 13. Hélène of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (= 9)
14= 14. Antoine, Duke of Montpensier
15= 15. Luísa Fernanda of Spain
16= 16. Louis-Philippe of France
17= 17. Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies
18= 18. Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
19= 19. Caroline Luise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
20= 20. Louis-Philippe of France (= 16)
21= 21. Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies (= 17)
22= 22. Pedro I of Brazil
23= 23. Maria Leopoldina of Austria
24= 24. Louis-Philippe of France (= 16)
25= 25. Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies (= 17)
26= 26. Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (= 18)
27= 27. Caroline Luise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (= 19)
28= 28. Louis-Philippe of France (= 16)
29= 29. Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies (= 17)
30= 30. Ferdinand VII of Spain
31= 31. Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies