Princess Isabel Alfonsa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Infanta of Spain, (Isabel Alfonsa María Teresa Antonia Cristina Mercedes Carolina Adelaida Rafaela de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Borbón; 16 October 1904 – 18 July 1985) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies by birth. Through her marriage to Count

Jan Kanty Zamoyski Count Jan Kanty Zamoyski (4 August 1900, in Stará Ľubovňa – 28 September 1961, in Monte Carlo) was a Polish aristocrat. He was the son of Count Andrzej Przemysław Zamoyski and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, granddaughter ...

, she was a member of the Zamoyski noble family and a Countess Zamoyska.

Family

Isabel Alfonsa was the third child of Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and his first wife Mercedes, Princess of Asturias. Her mother was the

heiress presumptive An heir presumptive is the person entitled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir apparent or a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question. ...

to the Spanish Throne from 11 September 1880 to 17 October 1904. She died one day after the labor. Isabel Alfonsa's maternal grandparents were Alfonso XII of Spain and

Maria Christina of Austria Maria Christina Henriette Desideria Felicitas Raineria of Austria ( es, María Cristina de Habsburgo-Lorena; 21 July 1858 – 6 February 1929) was the second queen consort of Alfonso XII of Spain. She was queen regent during the vacancy of the ...

. Through her father, she was a great-granddaughter of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies.

Marriage and issue

Isabel Alfonsa married her first cousin once removed Count

, seventh child and third son of Count Andrzej Zamoyski and his wife Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, on 9 March 1929 in Madrid. She and Jan had four children: Isabel Alfonsa de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y sus hijos

Isabel Alfonsa de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y sus hijos

* Count Karol Alfons Zamoyski (28 October 1930 – 26 October 1979) * Countess Maria Krystyna Zamoyska (2 September 1932 – 6 December 1959) * Count Józef Michal Zamoyski (born 27 June 1935-22/23 May 2010) * Countess Maria Teresa Zamoyska (born 18 April 1938) In 1929–1945 the family lived in Czechoslovakia in the town of Stará Ľubovňa.

Honours

* Dame Grand Cross of Justice of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George * Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa

Arms

File:Coat of Arms of Infanta Isabel Alfonsa of Spain, Countess Jan Kanty Zamoyski.svg, Coat of Arms of Isabel Alfonsa as Infanta of Spain and Countess Zamoyska File:Coat of Arms of Infanta Isabel Alfonsa of Spain as Widow.svg, Coat of Arms of Isabel Alfonsa as Infanta of Spain and widow

Ancestry

References

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