Infanta Maria Isabel of Portugal (or of Braganza; (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐˈɾiɐ izɐˈbɛɫ]; Queluz, May 19, 1797 – Aranjuez, December 26, 1818) was a Portuguese infanta (princess) and Queen consort of Spain.
Born a Portuguese infanta, Maria Isabel was the daughter of King John VI of Portugal and his wife Carlota Joaquina de Borbón.
She married her maternal uncle King Ferdinand VII of Spain in 1816, whose first wife, Princess Maria Antonia of N...
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Infanta Maria Isabel of Portugal (or of Braganza; (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐˈɾiɐ izɐˈbɛɫ]; Queluz, May 19, 1797 – Aranjuez, December 26, 1818) was a Portuguese infanta (princess) and Queen consort of Spain.
Born a Portuguese infanta, Maria Isabel was the daughter of King John VI of Portugal and his wife Carlota Joaquina de Borbón.
She married her maternal uncle King Ferdinand VII of Spain in 1816, whose first wife, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, had died ten years before.
The marriage produced one daughter, the Infanta María Luisa Isabel, who was born on 21 August 1817; she died on 9 January 1818 in Madrid; Maria Isabel was again pregnant soon after the birth of her firstborn, but the birth was a difficult one. The baby was in breech and the physicians soon found that the child had died. Maria Isabel stopped breathing soon thereafter and the doctors thought she was dead; when they started cutting her up to extract the dead fetus, she suddenly shouted in pain and...
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