Princess Isabelle | |||||
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Princess of Brazil Countess of Paris |
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Born | 13 August 1911 Eu, Seine-Maritime, French Third Republic |
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Died | 5 July 2003 Paris, France |
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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 |
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House | Orléans-Braganza | ||||
Father | Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão Para | ||||
Mother | Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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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.