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Biography of Ferdinand VII King Spain 1784-1833

Paternal Family Tree: Capet

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 [his grandfather] Charles III King Spain (age 48) and [his grandmother] Maria Amalia of Saxony Queen Consort Spain. They were first cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland. 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 7.98%.

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 19.30%.

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 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)1, who was at one time regarded as the rightful King of Spain.

Note 1. Carlos Luis Fernando de Bourbon, Count de Montemolin, born 1818, was the eldest son of the first [his brother] Don Carlos (age 29), the legitimist claimant to the Spanish throne on the death of his brother, Fernando VII (age 33), in 1833. After the ending of the first Carlist war in the defeat of the legitimists and the establishment of [his daughter] Isabella on the throne, the old Don Carlos retired into private life and abdicated his claims in 1845 to his eldest son Montemolin, 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 and her first cousin, Montemolin, 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 with her cousin Francisco, and that of her sister [his daughter] Fernanda with the [his future son-in-law] Due de Montpensier, the son of Louis Philippe (age 44), 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 and Isabella, whom they regarded as a usurper, and they looked out a legitimist Royal Princess for him. His younger brother, Don Juan, 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 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.

Royal Ancestors of Ferdinand VII King Spain 1784-1833

Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 5 Grand Son of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland

Kings Scotland: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 18 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great Grand Son of Louis XV King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Royal Descendants of Ferdinand VII King Spain 1784-1833

Isabella II Queen Spain

Maria de las Mercedes Unknown Queen Consort Spain

Ancestors of Ferdinand VII King Spain 1784-1833

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 5 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandfather: John George Wettin Elector Saxony 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John George Wettin III Elector Saxony 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Frederick Augutus Elector Saxony King of Poland 15 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Frederick III King Denmark 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anna Sophie Oldenburg 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Augustus III King Poland 16 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

GrandMother: Maria Amalia of Saxony Queen Consort Spain 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ferdinand King Bohemia III Holy Roman Emperor 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Leopold Habsburg Spain I Holy Roman Emperor 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Maria Anna of Spain Holy Roman Empress 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Joseph I Holy Roman Emperor 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip William Elector Palatine 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Maria Josepha of Austria 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 3 Grandfather: Johann Friedrich Hanover 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Eleonore Hesse Darmstadt Duchess Brunswick-Lüneburg 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Wilhelmine Amalie of Brunswick 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Palatinate Simmern Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 3 Grandmother: Benedicta Henrietta Palatinate Simmern Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

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