#House of bourbon

[makosxa]

Felipe V of Spain (!!)

[classic-art-favourites]

Marie Antoinette in Court Dress by Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, 1778.

[illustratus]

The Battle of Rocroi, 19 May 1643 by François Joseph Heim

The Duke of Enghien ordering his troops to stop fighting the Spanish, who have come to him to surrender.

[marianadecarlos]

Fanart of Philip V of Spain

I illustrated him savoring his dinner after a long day. He took a bite of his steak but found it chewy and dry. He instructed a servant to remove the steak and chose to eat pastries and tarts instead.

Dedicated to my friend, @philippeducdanjou, @chateau-de-gamin and @felipe-v-fanblog

I hope you all liked it, Thank you

[tiny-librarian]

During the alarm for the life of the Queen, regret at not possessing an heir to the throne was not even thought of. The King himself was wholly occupied with the care of preserving an adored wife.

The Memoirs of Madame Campan

[dreamconsumer]

Felipe VI when Prince of Asturias.

[royalty-nobility]

Louis Philippe and His Sons

Artist: Horace Vernet (French, 1789–1863)

Genre: History

Date: 1846

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Depicted People:

Louis Philippe I

Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans

Prince Louis, Duke of Nemo

Prince Henri, Duke of Aumale

Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier

Description

Louis-Philippe and His Sons Riding Out from Versailles is an 1846 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. It features a group portrait of Louis Philippe I and his sons riding out from the Palace of Versailles. Versailles, once the residence of the House of Bourbon during the Ancien régime before the French Revolution, had been abandoned for several decades. During the July Monarchy Louis Philippe oversaw its restoration as a national museum. Vernet's painting commemorates its inauguration on 10 June 1837. The king rides out through the gates accompanied by his five sons the Duke of Orléans, the Duke of Nemours, the Prince of Joinville, the Duke of Aumale and the Duke of Montpensier. Orléans, the king's eldest son and heir, had subsequently died in a carriage accident in 1842.

The painting was commissioned by the king to hang in Versailles, where it remains.

[roehenstart]

Portrait of Marie-Caroline (1798-1870) Duchesse de Berry, née Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily. By Joseph-Hippolyte Lequeutre.

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Mariana Victoria of Spain and her fiancé, Louis XV and daughters of the House of Besenval at Schloss Waldegg. Photos taken by me.

[nanshe-of-nina]

Women’s History Meme || Executions and Murders (5/5) ↬ Blanche of Bourbon, Queen consort of Castile

At a loss for a motive or cause behind Blanche’s death, Ayala resorts to another apocryphal story. One day, he writes, Pedro was hunting in the environs of Jerez when a shepherd claiming to have a message from God approached him. Pedro was enjoined to renew conjugal relations with Blanche and was assured legitimate heirs to the throne. If he disobeyed, he was promised a tragic end. Suspecting a conspiracy, the king ordered the imprisonment of the shepherd and dispatched Lopez de Cordoba (his camarero) and Matheos Fernandez (cancilfer del sello de fa poridad) to see if Blanche had been a party to the ruse. Though she declared her innocence, Pedro nevertheless ordered her death. … While it is impossible to know the true circumstances of Blanche’s death, Ayala’s story is a useful fabrication invented to highlight the absence of legitimate heirs to the throne, a feature of Pedro’s story intended to lessen the burden of Enrique’s illegitimacy. At the same time, Ayala’s portrayal of Blanche as victim, up to and including the circumstances of her reported death, is a constant feature of the chronicle. If Pedro in fact ordered her death, which is what Ayala wants us to believe, Blanche was one of his most undeserving victims, and the king was at his most merciless and cruel. As if by God’s judgment, or so Catalina implies, Maria de Padilla died shortly thereafter, in July 1361. She likely died of natural causes—as Blanche may have—leaving Pedro four children: Alfonso, Beatriz, Constanza, and Isabel. Immediately after her death, Pedro proclaimed her queen of Castile and ordered a royal burial, with all attendant honors. A funeral cortege carried her body to the monastery of Santa Clara de Astudillo, which she had founded in 1354. In 1362, her remains were transferred to the royal chapel in Seville for permanent repose . — Pedro the Cruel of Castile (1350-1369) by Clara Estow

[rmelster]

Someone on the Internet once called Maria Amalia of Saxony, Queen of Spain, Sicily and Naples, and her husband, Charles III of Spain, “the ugliest royal couple of their time”. An though I must admit that Charles III was more known for his wits than his looks, being rejected later in life by princess Marie Adélaïde of France for his portrait, Maria Amalia seemed to be a graceful young woman, but most likely grew weary and older-looking than her age with the time; giving birth to thirteen children in twenty two years, five of whom died when she was still alive, must have made her look older and frailer in her later paintings.

Honestly, that discourse is yet another “not a great beauty” comment on historical women, and I hate it.

[classic-art-favourites]

Sophie of France by Lie Louis Perin-Salbreux, 1770-1774.

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Marie Antoinette

by Joseph Hickel (Austrian, 1736 – 1807) oil on canvas (63 × 50 cm), 1773

Gripsholms Slott

[marianadecarlos]

Happy Birthday Philip V of Spain 🥳🎉

@chateau-de-gamin @felipe-v-fanblog

[tiny-librarian]

On the 16th, she insisted on commemorating the fifty-eighth anniversary of her mother’s death. When the people around her protested that she was too frail to go to church, she contended: ‘Nothing could stop me from going to the chapel to render to the memory of my mother; I have never failed those duties.’ That morning she made every effort to get to the chapel and partake of communion but she was so ill she simply could not get there. Instead the Abbe Trebuquet came to her room and dispensed it to her there.

Marie Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette’s Daughter - Susan Nagel

[dreamconsumer]

Marie-Amélie, Queen of the French (1782-1866) wife of Louis-Philippe I (1773-1850). By Frédéric Millet.