Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain

Maria Theresia Antonia Rafaela of Spain ( Spanish: María Teresa Rafaela de Borbón ) ( born June 11, 1726 Madrid, † July 22, 1746 in Fontainebleau ) was a Spanish Infanta from the house of Bourbon and Dauphine of France by marriage.

Life

Maria Theresa was the second daughter of the Spanish King Philip V (1683-1746) and his second wife, Elisabetta Farnese (1692-1766), daughter of the Duke of Parma and Piacenza, ODOARDO II Farnese and Dorothea Sophie of the Palatinate- Neuburg. Your paternal grandparents were Louis de Bourbon, dauphin de Viennois and Maria Anna of Bavaria.

On February 23, 1745 Maria Theresa married her cousin in Paris ( second degree ) Louis Ferdinand de Bourbon, dauphin de Viennois ( 1729-1765 ), eldest son of the French King Louis XV. and his wife, the Polish princess Maria Leszczyńska. This wedding sprang the tradition of Catholic rulers to marry each other and fortified as the alliance of France and Spain against the arch-enemy of the Bourbons: the House of Habsburg. The same year, her father took an official mistress, a commoner named Jeanne le Normant d' Etioles, born Poisson, as the Marquise de Pompadour became famous later. This compound aroused the fierce indignation of the aristocracy, and especially of the royal couple. Maria Theresa died on July 22, 1746, three days after the birth of her only daughter, Marie -Thérèse ( 1746-1748 ) from the effects of childbirth. She was buried in the royal crypt at Saint - Denis. Despite the great mourning the untimely death of his wife, her husband married a few months later, on February 9, 1747, the Saxon princess Maria Josepha Carolina.