Biography of Ferdinand VII King Spain 1784-1833
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In 1765 [his father] Charles IV King Spain (age 16) and [his mother] Maria Luisa of Parma (age 13) were married. He the son of Charles III King Spain (age 48). They were first cousins. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.
On 14 Oct 1784 Ferdinand VII King Spain was born to Charles IV King Spain (age 35) and Maria Luisa of Parma (age 32). Coefficient of inbreeding 7.66%.
On 14 Dec 1788 [his grandfather] Charles III King Spain (age 72) died. His son [his father] Charles IV King Spain (age 40) succeeded IV King Spain.
On 19 Mar 1808 [his father] Charles IV King Spain (age 59) abdicated as King Spain. Ferdinand VII King Spain (age 23) succeeded VII King Spain.
In 1814 Ferdinand VII King Spain (age 29) was appointed 647th Knight of the Garter by King George IV of Great Britain and Ireland (age 51) during the Regency.
On 02 Jan 1819 [his mother] Maria Luisa of Parma (age 67) died.
On 20 Jan 1819 [his father] Charles IV King Spain (age 70) died. He had abdicated eleven years before in favour of his son Ferdinand VII King Spain (age 34).
In 1829 Ferdinand VII King Spain (age 44) and Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies Queen Consort Spain (age 22) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Spain. The difference in their ages was 21 years. He the son of Charles IV King Spain and Maria Luisa of Parma. They were uncle and niece. He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.
On 10 Oct 1830 [his daughter] Isabella II Queen Spain was born to Ferdinand VII King Spain (age 45) and [his wife] Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies Queen Consort Spain (age 24). Coefficient of inbreeding 17.35%.
On 30 Jan 1832 [his daughter] Infanta Luisa Fernanda Duchess of Montpensier was born to Ferdinand VII King Spain (age 47).
On 29 Sep 1833 Ferdinand VII King Spain (age 48) died. His daughter [his daughter] Isabella II Queen Spain (age 2) succeeded Queen Spain. Her succession was disputed by her uncle [his brother] Infante Carlos María Isidro of Spain (age 45) since her father Ferdinand VII King Spain (age 48) had modified the laws of the Salic Spanish Succession, known as the Pragmatic Sanction, shortly before her birth. Traditionally the Spanish succession has allowed females to inherit. When Philippe V King Spain inherited the throne he introduced the French Salic Law barring females.
Adeline Horsey Recollections. It is said that few people achieve greatness, but that some have it thrust upon them. I can class myself with the latter, for I could have married a Prince of the Royal Family of Spain, the Count de Montemolin (age 26), who was at one time regarded as the rightful King of Spain.
Carlos Luis Fernando de Bourbon, Count de Montemolin (age 26), born 1818, was the eldest son of the first [his brother] Don Carlos (age 45), the legitimist claimant to the Spanish throne on the death of his brother, Fernando VII (age 48), in 1833. After the ending of the first Carlist war in the defeat of the legitimists and the establishment of [his daughter] Isabella (age 14) on the throne, the old Don Carlos (age 56) retired into private life and abdicated his claims in 1845 to his eldest son Montemolin (age 26), who thus became the second Don Carlos. He was a young man of some ability but weak and unstable. There was a strong party in Spain desirous to bring about a reconciliation of the two branches of the Royal Family by a marriage between the young Queen Isabella (age 14) and her first cousin, Montemolin (age 26), but political passion and personal animosity stood in the way, and all Europe took part in the intrigue known as the Spanish Marriages. This ended of course in the disastrous marriage of Isabella (age 14) with her cousin Francisco, and that of her sister [his daughter] Fernanda (age 12) with the Due de Montpensier (age 20), the son of Louis Philippe (age 71), a defeat for English diplomacy which nearly caused a war with France. The Carlists had never been favourable to the idea of a marriage of Montemolin (age 26) and Isabella (age 14), whom they regarded as a usurper, and they looked out a legitimist Royal Princess for him. His younger brother, Don Juan (age 22), married Princess Beatrix of Modena, and their son was the late Don Carlos. Queen Isabella married in 1846, and dissensions very soon broke out between her and her wretched husband, who really, like most of the Royal Family, was a Carlist at heart. Montemolin had issued a manifesto at Bourges in France in 1845, when he saw that he could not marry Isabella (age 14) on his own terms, and his father had abdicated in the same year, and he soon after came to London, mustered his party, and began to organise a fresh Carlist rising in Spain. English diplomacy had suffered a great defeat and he found plenty of people here to help him; he was made much of in Society and became a lion for a time, being treated with full royal honours.
On 22 Aug 1878 [his former wife] Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies Queen Consort Spain (age 72) died.
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Kings France: Great Grand Son of Louis XV King France
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis XIII King France 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis "Sun King" XIV King France 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne of Austria Spain Queen Consort France 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Louis "Le Grand Dauphin" Bourbon Duke Burgundy 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip IV King Spain 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maria Theresa of Spain Queen Consort France 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elisabeth Bourbon Queen Consort Spain 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Philippe V King Spain 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Maximilian "The Great" Wittelsbach I Duke Bavaria I Elector Bavaria 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ferdinand Maria Wittelsbach 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maria Anna Habsburg Spain Duchess Bavaria 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Maria Anna Victoria Wittelsbach Duchess Burgundy 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Henriette Adelaide Savoy
GrandFather: Charles III King Spain 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elisabeth Farnese Queen Consort Spain
Father: Charles IV King Spain 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Ferdinand VII King Spain 5 x Great Grand Son of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis XIII King France 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis "Sun King" XIV King France 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne of Austria Spain Queen Consort France 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Louis "Le Grand Dauphin" Bourbon Duke Burgundy 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip IV King Spain 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maria Theresa of Spain Queen Consort France 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elisabeth Bourbon Queen Consort Spain 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Philippe V King Spain 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Maximilian "The Great" Wittelsbach I Duke Bavaria I Elector Bavaria 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ferdinand Maria Wittelsbach 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maria Anna Habsburg Spain Duchess Bavaria 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Maria Anna Victoria Wittelsbach Duchess Burgundy 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Henriette Adelaide Savoy
GrandFather: Infante Philip of Spain 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elisabeth Farnese Queen Consort Spain
Mother: Maria Luisa of Parma 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis "Sun King" XIV King France 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis "Le Grand Dauphin" Bourbon Duke Burgundy 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maria Theresa of Spain Queen Consort France 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Louis Bourbon Duke Burgundy 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ferdinand Maria Wittelsbach 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maria Anna Victoria Wittelsbach Duchess Burgundy 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Henriette Adelaide Savoy
Great x 1 Grandfather: Louis XV King France 2 x Great Grand Son of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Emmanuel II Duke of Savoy 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Victor Amadeus King Sardinia 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Maria Adelaide Savoy Great Grand Daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Bourbon I Duke Orléans 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Marie Bourbon Queen Consort Sardinia Grand Daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Princess Henrietta Stewart Duchess Orléans Daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland
GrandMother: Louise Elisabeth of France 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandmother: Marie Leszczyńska Queen Consort France