Infanta dona Maria de las Mercedes of Spain (1880-1904), Princess of the Asturias, and for a period 1885-86 when she was five years old, the extant Head of the State of Spain, was born as 'Dona Maria de las Mercedes de Borbon y Asburgo-Lorena', eldest daughter of King Alfonso XII of Spain (Don Alfonso de Borbon de Cadiz y Borbon de Espana) and his second wife Maria Christina of Austria, Archduchess, Queen 'Dona Maria Cristina de Asburgo-Lorena y de Asburgo-Lorena', queen consort of Spain. The House of Bourbon dates from at least the beginning of the 13th century, when the estate of Bourbon was ruled by a Lord, vassal of France. ... This image depicts a seal, an emblem, a coat of arms or a crest. ... hehe ... King Louis of Spain ( August 25, 1707 - August 31, 1724) ruled less than one year between the time his father Philip V abdicated in his favor, and his death from smallpox, both in 1724. ... 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Maria Christina (1858–1929) Was the Queen Consort of Alphonso XII and was Queen Regent of Spain during the minority of her son Alfonso XIII from 1886 - 1902 Categories: Stub | 1858 births | 1929 deaths | Regents | Spanish nobility | Spanish history | Queen consorts ...

Were the child, her mother was pregnant with at the death of Alfonso XII, a daughter, Maria Mercedes would have become Queen Regnant of Spain, Her Catholic Majesty, etc. The term queen regnant refers to a female monarch. ...

When her posthumous only brother Alfonso XIII of Spain was born in 1886, Maria Mercedes lost her latent Queenship, returning to the position of heiress presumptive of Spain, which she held until her own death, leaving it to her infant son, since the the birth of Alfonso's first child happened only years after her death. Alfonso XIII Alfonso XIII of Spain ( May 17, 1886 – February 28, 1941), King of Spain, posthumous son of Alfonso XII of Spain, was proclaimed King at his birth. ... An heir presumptive is one who is first in line to inherit a title or property, such as a monarchy, because there is not yet an heir apparent. ...

Infanta Maria Mercedes married her kinsman Prince Carlos de Borbon of Sicily, a nephew of the King of the then defunct Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, who was elevated to titles of Infante of Spain and Royal Prince. She died young, her children just babies. Her son Alfonso became 1960 the Pretender of the crown of Two Sicilies and assumed its traditional title of Duke of Calabria. Sicily (Sicilia in Italian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq. ... The Two Sicilies The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was the new name that the Bourbon king Ferdinand IV of Naples gave to his domain (including Southern Italy and Sicily) after the end of the Napoleonic Era and the full restoration of his power in 1816. ... In the Spanish and former Portuguese monarchies, Infante (masc. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... A Pretender is a claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne. ... The Two Sicilies The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was the new name that the Bourbon king Ferdinand IV of Naples gave to his domain (including Southern Italy and Sicily) after the end of the Napoleonic Era and the full restoration of his power in 1816. ...