Princess Louise of Orléans

Infobox Two Sicilies Royalty|prince
name = Princess Louise of Orléans
full name = Louise Françoise Marie Laure
title = Princess Louise of Bourbon-Two Sicilies


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spouse = Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
issue = Prince Carlos
Princess Maria de los Dolores
Princess Maria de las Mercedes
Princess Maria de la Esperanza
royal house =House of Orléans
House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
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father =Prince Philippe, Count of Paris
mother =Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans
date of birth =birth date|1882|02|24|df=y
place of birth = Cannes, France
date of death = death date and age|1958|04|18|1882|02|24|df=y
place of death = Seville, Spain
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Princess "Louise" Françoise Marie Laure of Orléanscite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p10328.htm#i103276| title=Louise Françoise Marie Laure d'Orléans, Prince de France| date=10 March 2007 | accessdate=2008-10-03 | publisher= [http://thePeerage.com thePeerage.com] | author=Darryl Lundy] (born 24 February 1882 in Cannes, France ; died 18 April 1958 in Seville, Spain ) was a Princess of the Two-Sicilies and maternal grandmother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

Louise was the youngest daughter of Philippe of Orléans (1838-1894), Count of Paris and claimant to the French throne as "Philippe VII". Her mother was Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans (1848-1919), daughter of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier and Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain.

Marriage and issue

On 16 November 1907, Louise married in Wood Norton, Evesham, Worcestershire, England Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1870-1949), Prince of the Two-Sicilies and widower of Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Infanta of Spain. The couple lived in Madrid and had 4 children:

* Don Carlo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1908-1936). Killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting on the Nationalist side.
* Doña Maria de los Dolores of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1909-1996). In 1937, she married Prince Augustyn Józef Czartoryski (1907-1946) and had one surviving son, Adam. She remarried to Carlos Chias on 1950.
* Doña Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1910-2000) who married Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and became the mother of current reining King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
* Doña Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1914-2005), who married Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza.

Later life

In 1931, when the Spanish Republic was proclaimed, the family left Spain for Italy and later Switzerland. In 1939, after the victory of Franco in the Spanish civil War they returned to Spain and settled in Seville.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Princess Louise of Orléans
2= 2. Prince Philippe, Count of Paris
3= 3. Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans
4= 4. Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans
5= 5. Duchess Helena of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
6= 6. Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier
7= 7. Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain
8= 8. Louis-Philippe of France
9= 9. Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies
10= 10. Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
11= 11. Princess Caroline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
12= 12. Louis-Philippe of France (= 8)
13= 13. Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies (= 9)
14= 14. Ferdinand VII of Spain
15= 15. Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies
16= 16. Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
17= 17. Louise Marie Adélaïde of Bourbon-Penthièvre
18= 18. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
19= 19. Marie Caroline of Austria
20= 20. Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
21= 21. Princess Luise of Saxe-Gotha
22= 22. Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
23= 23. Princess Luise Auguste of Hesse-Darmstadt
24= 24. Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (= 16)
25= 25. Louise Marie Adélaïde of Bourbon-Penthièvre (= 17)
26= 26. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (= 18)
27= 27. Marie Caroline of Austria (= 19)
28= 28. Charles IV of Spain
29= 29. Maria Luisa of Parma
30= 30. Francis I of the Two Sicilies
31= 31. Maria Isabella of Spain

References

* "Généalogie des rois et des princes" by Jan-Charles Volkmann Edit. Jean-Paul Gisserot (1998)