House of Bourbon facts for kids

The coat of arms of the French Bourbons. It shows the lily flower linked with the name. It was also used by the King of Spain and other ruling Bourbons.

The House of Bourbon is an important royal house of Europe. Kings from the House of Bourbon ruled France from 1589 to 1792 and again from 1815 to 1848. This is a younger branch of the Capetian dynasty. Members of the House of Bourbon also ruled Naples, Sicily, and Parma in the past. Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and King Felipe VI of Spain are both part of the House of Bourbon.

Branches

All of these branches descended from three legitimate grandsons of Louis XIV.

• Bourbons of France, such as King Louis XV.
• Bourbons of Spain, such as the present King.
• Bourbons of Parma, Dukes of Parma
• Bourbons of the Two Sicilies, Kings of the Two Sicilies

Images for kids

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  The castle of Bourbon-l'Archambault

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  French kings from House of Bourbon. Family tree

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  Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon King of France

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  Dynastic group portrait of Louis XIV (seated) with his son the Louis. the Grand Dauphin (to the left), his grandson Louis, Duke of Burgundy (to the right), his great-grandson the duc d'Anjou, later Louis XV, and Madame de Ventadour, his governess, who commissioned this painting some years later; busts of Henry IV and Louis XIII in the background.

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  A posthumous painting commissioned around 1670 by Philippe de France. It shows the French Bourbon family around that time. It includes: Henrietta Maria of France (died 1669), exiled Queen of England; Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, founder of the House of Orléans; his first wife Princess Henriette (died 1670); the couple's first daughter Marie Louise d'Orléans (later Queen of Spain); Anne of Austria (died 1666); the Orléans daughters of Gaston de France; Louis XIV; the Dauphin of France with his wife Maria Theresa of Spain with her third daughter Marie-Thérèse, called Madame Royale (died 1672) and her second son Philippe-Charles de France, duc d'Anjou (d1671). The first daughter of Gaston stands on the far right: Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans. The picture frame with the two children are the other two daughters of Louis and Maria Theresa who died in 1662 and 1664.

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  Spanish kings from the House of Bourbon

See also

In Spanish: Casa de Borbón para niños