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Princess Margherita of Bourbon Parma

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Spouse
  
Carlos, Duke of Madrid


Name
  
Princess of

Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma

Born
  
1 January 1847 Lucca, Duchy of Parma (
1847-01-01
)

Died
  
29 January 1893(1893-01-29) (aged 46) Viareggio, Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy

Issue
  
Infanta Blanca Jaime, Duke of Madrid Infanta Elvira Infanta Beatriz Infanta Alicia

House
  
House of Bourbon-Parma (by birth) House of Bourbon (by marriage)

Father
  
Charles III, Duke of Parma

Mother
  
Princess Louise Marie Therese of France

Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma (Italian: Margherita Maria Teresa Enrichetta, Principessa di Parma) (1 January 1847 – 29 January 1893) was the eldest child and daughter of Charles III, Duke of Parma and Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France, the eldest daughter of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry and Princess Caroline Ferdinande Louise of the Two Sicilies. Margherita was thus a great-granddaughter of Charles X of France. She was born in Lucca, Duchy of Parma. She was a niece of Henri, comte de Chambord, disputedly King of France and Navarre from 2 to 9 August 1830 and afterwards the Legitimist Pretender to the throne of France from 1844 to 1883. Through her marriage to Carlos, Duke of Madrid, Carlist claimant to the Spanish throne, Margherita was titular Queen consort of Spain, France, and Navarre.

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Marriage and issue

Margherita married Carlos, Duke of Madrid, eldest son of Juan, Count of Montizón and his wife Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, on 4 February 1867 at Schloss Frohsdorf in Frohsdorf, Lower Austria, Austrian Empire. Margherita and Carlos had five children:

  • Infanta Blanca of Spain (1868–1949) m in 1889 at Frohsdorf Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany and had issue.
  • Jaime, Duke of Madrid (1870–1931)
  • Infanta Elvira of Spain (1871–1929) died unmarried, but with illegitimate issue who bore the name de Bourbon.
  • Infanta Beatriz of Spain (1874-1961) married in Venice in 1892 Fabrizio Massimo, Principe di Roviano (his mother was Donna Francesca di Paola Lucchesi-Palli, daughter of Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily and her second husband)
  • Infanta Alicia of Spain (1876–1975) married (1) in 1897 Friedrich, Prince von Schönburg-Waldenburg at Venice and had issue, divorced 1903; (2) in 1906 at Viareggio, Lino del Prete and had issue.

    • Margherita died on 29 January 1893, in Viareggio, Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy. Carlos remarried the following year to Princess Berthe of Rohan.

    Titles and styles

  • 1 January 1847 – 4 February 1867: Her Royal Highness Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma
  • 4 February 1867 – 29 January 1893: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Madrid, Princess of Bourbon-Parma

    • References

    Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma Wikipedia
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