Infante Fernando of Bourbon and Braganza were Carlos IV of Spain and Maria Luisa of Parma; her maternal grandparents were King John VI of Portugal and his wife, Infanta Carlota Joaquina of Spain. Genealogy of the Bourbon Dynasty: He was raised in an atmosphere imbued with traditional values of loyalty to the monarchy and the Church. When Fernando VII was widowed for third time in 1829, it had no legitimate issue that could succeed him after his death. Given his advanced age and failing health, was unlikely marriage contrajese again, which became the infant Carlos, father of Infante Fernando, heir to the throne. Around the infant,
House of Bourbon-Dampierre last female of that line, Agnès of Bourbon-Dampierre († 1287), with John of Burgundy, her House merged with the House of Burgundy, and to their daughter Beatrix (1257-1310), Lady of Bourbon. Finally, it was passed on to Beatrix' husband, Robert, Count of Clermont (1256-1317), the 13th and last child of Louis IX, king of France, who was thus the first prince of France to take possession of the territory of Bourbon (in 1310) and founded the Capetian House of Bourbon. House of Bourbon-Dampierre The House of Bourbon-Dampierre refers to a noble dynasty emerged from the marriage of Guy II of