Infanta María de la Paz of Spain

María de la Paz of Bourbon and Borbón, Infanta of Spain ( born June 23, 1862 in Madrid, † December 4, 1946 at Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich) was by marriage Princess of Bavaria.

Origin

María de la Paz was a daughter of Francisco de Asis de Borbón (1822-1902), Duke of Cádiz and his wife, Queen Isabel II of Spain ( 1830-1904 ).

Marriage

On April 2, 1883, she married her cousin in Madrid the Bavarian Prince Ludwig Ferdinand, son of Prince Adalbert Wilhelm of Bavaria and his wife Infanta Amalia de Borbon of Spain. The marriage produced three children:

• Ferdinand Maria, Prince of Bavaria, Infante of Spain (1884-1958)

• Adalbert Alfons Prince of Bavaria (1886-1970), Dr. phil., Historian

• María del Pilar Princess of Bavaria (1891-1987), painter

Others

Like her son, the Wittelsbach - historian Prince Adalbert of Bavaria his mother María de la Paz was already predisposed a writer. She was also a passionate and talented painter. However, they wrote only for charitable purposes and published uA 1903 Herder -Verlag Freiburg under the title In the Eternal City, a description of their previous year's pilgrimage to Rome and her meeting with Pope Leo XIII. The yield of Scripture came the Seraphic love working Altötting, the Children's Fund of the Capuchins, benefit. In the same work there is also a photo of her daughter, Princess Pilar, along with call for support of the Catholic " children Legion" in Altotting, a sub-organization of the Association, in which children and young people were able to undertake charity work. For the war survivors' care the princess in 1917 published her memoirs, titled My Life.

The son, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria officiated as first Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Spain, to which he was predestined because of his personal and family relationships by his Spanish mother.