Princess Isabel Alfonsa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies


Princess Isabel Alfonsa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Infanta of Spain, was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies by birth. Through her marriage to Count Jan Kanty Zamoyski, she was a member of the House of Zamoyski.

Family

Isabel Alfonsa was the third child of Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and his first wife Mercedes, Princess of Asturias. Her mother was the heiress presumptive to the Spanish Throne from 11 September 1880 to 17 October 1904. She died one week after the labor. Isabel Alfonsa's maternal grandparents were Alfonso XII of Spain and Maria Christina of Austria. Through her father, she was a great-granddaughter of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies.

Marriage and issue

Isabel Alfonsa married her first cousin once removed Count Jan Kanty Zamoyski, seventh child and third son of Count Andrzej Zamoyski and his wife Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, on 9 March 1929 in Madrid. She and Jan had four children:
  • Count Karol Alfons Zamoyski
  • Countess Maria Krystyna Zamoyska
  • Count Józef Michal Zamoyski
  • Countess Maria Teresa Zamoyska
From 1929 to 1945 the family lived in Czechoslovakia in the town of Stará Ľubovňa.

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