Maria Isabel of Portugal

Maria Isabella of Braganza (Portuguese: Dona Maria Isabel Francisca de Assis Antónia Carlota Joana Josefa Xavier de Paula Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga de Bragança, Spanish: María Isabel de Braganza ) ( born May 19, 1797 in Queluz, † December 26, 1818 in Madrid ) was Infanta of Portugal and Queen of Spain.

Life

It was on May 19, 1797, the daughter of King John VI. and his wife Charlotte Johanna of Spain, daughter of King Charles IV, born in Queluz.

In 1816 she married her maternal uncle in Madrid, the Spanish King Ferdinand VII after his first wife Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies had died ten years earlier.

The marriage sprang a daughter, María Luisa Isabel, who was born on 21 August 1817 and already died six months on January 9, 1818 in Madrid.

Maria Isabella became pregnant again in the same year, the birth on November 29, 1818, however, was fraught with complications. The child died in the womb. When Mary Isabella stopped breathing, doctors already believed, he had died. When they began, they cut open to remove the dead fetus, she let out a cry of pain, fainted and bled to death. She was only 21 years old and was buried in the Escorial in the pantheon of Infante.