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Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza

Princess Isabelle
Princess of Brazil
Countess of Paris
Comtesse de Paris 1995.jpg
Born 13 August 1911
Eu, Seine-Maritime, French Third Republic
Died 5 July 2003(2003-07-05) (aged 91)
Paris, France
Burial Chapelle royale de Dreux
Spouse Prince Henri, Count of Paris
Issue Princess Isabelle, Countess of Schönborn-Buchheim
Prince Henri, Count of Paris
Princess Hélène, Countess of Limburg-Stirum
Prince François, Duke of Orléans
Princess Anne, Dowager Duchess of Calabria
Duchess Diane, Duchess of Württemberg
Prince Michel, Count of Évreux
Prince Jacques, Duke of Orléans
Princess Claude
Princess Chantal, Baroness of Sambucy de Sorgue
Prince Thibaut, Count of La Marche
Full name
Isabelle Marie Amélie Louise Victoire Thérèse Jeanne
House Orléans-Braganza
Father Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão Para
Mother Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz
Religion Roman Catholicism
Full name
Isabelle Marie Amélie Louise Victoire Thérèse Jeanne

Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Countess of Paris (Isabelle Marie Amélie Louise Victoire Thérèse Jeanne; Eu, Seine-Maritime, 13 August 1911 – Paris, 5 July 2003) was a French historical author and consort of the Orleanist pretender, Henri, Count of Paris. She became by marriage titular Countess of Paris.

The eldest daughter of Dom Pedro de Alcântara of Orléans-Braganza, Prince of Grão-Pará, sometime heir to the throne of the Empire of Brazil (1875–1940) and of his wife, Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz (1875–1951), Isabelle was born in a pavilion of the Château d'Eu in Normandy. She was christened as namesake of her paternal grandmother, Princess Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, elder daughter and heir of the deposed Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.

In 1891 Dom Pedro de Alcântara became Prince Imperial of Brazil to the royalists upon the death of the emperor in exile, his mother having become the claimant. In 1908 he married a Bohemian noblewoman in the presence of his parents, although his mother withheld dynastic approval as head of the imperial family in exile. Therefore, Dom Pedro renounced the succession rights of himself and his future descendants to the abolished Brazilian throne. By agreement with the head of the House of Orléans, to which he belonged paternally, he and his issue continued to use the title Prince/ss of Orléans-Braganza.


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