Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset (23 March 1898 – 1 September 1984) was the titular Duchess of Parma and Piacenza (from 1974) and was also

Carlist Carlism ( eu, Karlismo; ca, Carlisme; ; ) is a Traditionalist and Legitimist political movement in Spain aimed at establishing an alternative branch of the Bourbon dynasty – one descended from Don Carlos, Count of Molina (1788–1855) – ...

Queen of

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(from 1952) as the consort of

Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma Xavier, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, known in France before 1974 as Prince Xavier de Bourbon-Parme, known in Spain as Francisco Javier de Borbón-Parma y de Braganza or simply as Don Javier (25 May 1889 – 7 May 1977), was the head of the ducal Ho ...

, the Carlist

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to the Spanish throne.

Life and family

She was born of a

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of the Bourbon Counts of Busset, male-line descendants of

Louis de Bourbon Louis de Bourbon may refer to: * Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279 – 1342), Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis and La Marche, and the first Duke of Bourbon * Louis II, Duke of Bourbon, called the Good (1337 – 1410), third Duke of Bourbon * Louis de ...

(1437–1482), '' prince du sang'', Bishop of Liège,Enache, Nicolas. ''La Descendance de Marie-Therese de Habsburg''. ICC, Paris, 1996. pp. 416-417, 422. (French). allegedly by a liaison with Catherine de Gueldres. Anselme, Père. ‘’Histoire de la Maison Royale de France’’, tome 4. Editions du Palais-Royal, 1967, Paris. pp. 307, 375. (French). Her father was Georges de Bourbon-Busset, Count de Lignières (1860–1932), and her mother Marie Jeanne ''née'' de Kerret-Quillien (1866–1958).de Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. ‘’Le Petit Gotha’’. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery, Paris 2002, (French) p. 586-589 Prince Xavier, a younger son of

Robert I, Duke of Parma Robert I (Italian: ''Roberto Carlo Luigi Maria''; 9 July 1848 – 16 November 1907) was the last sovereign Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1854 until 1859, when the duchy was annexed to Sardinia-Piedmont during the ''Risorgimento''. He was a m ...

, and Madeleine were wed on 12 November 1927 at the château de Lignières in Cher. The couple took up residence in the

Bourbonnais Bourbonnais () was a historic province in the centre of France that corresponds to the modern ''département'' of Allier, along with part of the ''département'' of Cher. Its capital was Moulins. History The title of the ruler of Bourbonnais ...

, where Xavier managed Madeleine's farm lands. The marriage was accepted as

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at the time by neither Prince Elias of Bourbon-Parma (Xavier's elder half-brother, then acting head of the

House of Bourbon-Parma The House of Bourbon-Parma ( it, Casa di Borbone di Parma) is a cadet branch of the Spanish royal family, whose members once ruled as King of Etruria and as Duke of Parma and Piacenza, Guastalla, and Lucca. The House descended from the Fren ...

), nor by the senior Bourbons of the Spanish branch (

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), but was later recognized by the Parmesan Duke Robert Hugo, and by the

pretender Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime. In 1936, Alfonso Carlos, the last undisputed head of the Carlist movement, appointed her husband Xavier as Carlist "

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". Madeleine actively supported her husband's political activities and social views. Madeleine was the author of "Catherine de Médicis", published in France in 1940. The couple had issue: # Princess Marie Françoise of Bourbon-Parma (born 19 August 1928), she married Prince Edouard de Lobkowicz (1926–2010) and had issue; # Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma (8 April 1930 – 18 August 2010),

Duke of Parma and Piacenza The Duke of Parma and Piacenza () was the ruler of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, a historical state of Northern Italy, which existed between 1545 and 1802, and again from 1814 to 1859. The Duke of Parma was also Duke of Piacenza, excep ...

as head of the house of

Bourbon-Parma The House of Bourbon-Parma ( it, Casa di Borbone di Parma) is a cadet branch of the Spanish royal family, whose members once ruled as King of Etruria and as Duke of Parma and Piacenza, Guastalla, and Lucca. The House descended from the French C ...

, "Carlist" King of

. He married

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and had issue; # Princess Marie Thérèse of Bourbon-Parma (28 July 1933 – 26 March 2020), victim of

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; #

Princess Cécile Marie of Bourbon-Parma Princess Cécile Marie Antoinette Madeleine Jeanne Agnès Françoise of Bourbon-Parma, Countess of Poblet (Spanish: ''Cecilia María de Borbón-Parma'', French: ''Cécile Marie de Bourbon-Parme''; 12 April 1935 – 1 September 2021) was a French ...

(12 April 1935 – 1 September 2021), she was named Countess of Poblet by her father. She never got married; #

Princess Marie des Neiges of Bourbon-Parma Princess Marie des Neiges Madeleine Françoise of Bourbon-Parma, Countess of Castillo de la Mota (Spanish: ''María de las Nieves de Borbón-Parma'', French: ''Marie des Neiges de Bourbon-Parme''; born 29 April 1937) is a French aristocrat, orn ...

(born 29 April 1937), she was named Countess of Castillo de la Mota by her father. She never got married; # Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma (born 22 July 1940), he was named Duke of Aranjuez by his father. He never got married;

Ancestry

References and notes

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