Maria Luisa of Spain, Duchess of Lucca


Maria Luisa of Spain , was an Infanta of Spain. She was a daughter of King Carlos IV of Spain and his wife Maria Luisa of Parma. In 1795, age thirteen, she married her first cousin Louis, Hereditary Prince of Parma. She spent the first years of her married life at the Spanish court where her first son, Charles II, Duke of Parma, was born.

As Maria Luisa was only thirteen when she married, her first child was not born for another four years. Her first son, Charles Louis, was born in Madrid onDecember 1799. Afterwards, the couple wanted to go to Parma, the lands they were going to inherit, but Carlos IV and his wife were reluctant to allow their departure. They were still in Spain in the spring of 1800 and staying at the Palace in Aranjuez when they were painted with the royal family in The Family of Charles IV by Goya.

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