Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain

Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain (18 May 1821 – 8 May 1897) was a Spanish princess and the eldest child of Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain and of his niece, Princess Luisa Carlotta of the Two Sicilies.

Infanta Isabel Fernanda
Infanta Isabel Fernanda, c. 1860
Born(1821-05-18)18 May 1821
Aranjuez, Spain
Died8 May 1897(1897-05-08) (aged 75)
Paris, France
Spouse
Count Ignatius Gurowski
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(m. 1841; died 1887)​
HouseBourbon
FatherInfante Francisco de Paula of Spain
MotherPrincess Luisa Carlotta of the Two Sicilies

Life

Childhood

Isabel Fernanda was born an infanta of Spain as a daughter of Infante Francisco de Paula and Princess Luisa Carlotta of the Two Sicilies. Once King Ferdinand VII of Spain died in 1833, his wife, Queen Maria Christina, the younger sister of Isabel’s mother Luisa, married discreetly to Agustín Fernando Muñoz y Sánchez—the reason behind the discreet behaviour of the marriage was due to the fact it was morganatic.[1][2] The marriage, once it was known, caused a great rift between Maria Christina and her sister Luisa Carlotta; expressed by the queen sending Luisa and her family abroad to Paris. Isabel was educated in a schoolhouse, in Paris.

Marriage and scandal

In 1841 Isabel created a scandal when she married morganatically her riding instructor, Polish Count Ignatius Gurowski (1814-1887), son of Count Wladyslaw Gurowski, Starost of Kolo (d. 1818) and Genoveva Cielecka. They settled in Brussels, Belgium. When her brother married Queen Isabella II of Spain in 1846, the Belgian aristocracy and court were obliged to allow her to attend court and social life. When the queen of Belgium died in 1850, her rank made her the first lady of the Belgian court and thereby gave her a sort of hostess role until she returned to Spain in 1854.

Ancestry

References
  1. "Riansares, Augustin Fernandez Muñoz, Duke of" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 281.
  2. Zavala, José María (2011-03-11). Bastardos y Borbones: Los hijos desconocidos de la dinastía (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España. ISBN 978-84-01-34767-2.
  3. Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 9.
  4. Calvo Maturana, Antonio Juan. "Francisco de Paula Antonio María de Borbón". Diccionario biográfico España (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia.
  5. Genealogie ascendate, p. 96
  6. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Francis I. of the Two Sicilies" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  7. Mateos Sáinz de Medrano, Ricardo. "Luisa Carlota de Borbón y Borbón". Diccionario biográfico España (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia.
  8. Navarrete Martínez, Esperanza Navarrete Martínez. "María de la O Isabel de Borbón". Diccionario biográfico España (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Archived from the original on 2020-08-02. Retrieved 2020-06-05.


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