On September 8, 2013, my dear friend Virginia Hambley got down on her knee at the Mission café in Eugene and proposed marriage to me – for the second time!

I had asked her to do something for me, look at my blog and my genealogical study. I told her we have ties to Old Lyme where the McCurdy family lived, they kin to Captain Isaac Hull of the U.S. Constitution. All of sudden, Virginia, says;

“Marry me. I need a change. I don’t want things to go on as they have been.”

Virginia Hambley is fifty years of age, and has never been married.

“Yes! I will marry you. We have loved each other for sixteen years.”

We would later exchange lollipops in the park by the river. I enjoyed her flavor, as she enjoyed mine. We exchanged our DNA.

Virginia and I were lovers in 1997. When I moved to Springfield we did not see much of each other till Sunday. I didn’t know it then, but, when Virginia rose from her knee after giving me a French Kiss, she rose of a Princess of the Blood. I knew the de Bourmonts were connected, but I did not know they married into the House of Bourbon, and are kindred of Louis-Henry Ier de Bourbon-Condé who was the grand-maître de l’Ordre des Chevaliers du Temple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Auguste-Victor,_Count_de_Ghaisnes_de_Bourmont

I had told Virginia about the Rougemont Templars and how I am kin to the Windsors. I told her when we got married we may be something like 126 in line to the throne of England. After looking close at the de Bourmonts, her mother’s maiden name, Virginia by herself is in line to many thrones. Elizabeth Hambley de Bourmont was born in France.

I have compared Virginia to Ofelia in Pan’s Labyrinth which is about restoring the Bourbons to the Spanish throne. This is a fairytale come true. Virginia has always been a noble and brave being in my eyes. I am more then honored to be her fiancé, and eventually, her husband. I am truly humbled. I have always loved Virginia, and always will.

Jon Gregory Presco

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Louis-Henry Ier de Bourbon-Condé
(Louis-Henry de Bourbon-Condé)
Titres: prince de Condé, duc de Bourbon, duc de Guise (10e), duc d’Enghien, pair de France, grand-maître de l’Ordre des Chevaliers du Temple

A prince of the blood was a person who was legitimately descended in the male line from the monarch of a country. In France, the rank of prince du sang was the highest held at court after the immediate family of the king during the ancien régime and the Bourbon Restoration. A prince du sang or a princesse du sang had to be a legitimate member of the reigning dynasty (after 1589, the House of Bourbon). In some European monarchies, but especially in the kingdom of France, this appellation was a specific rank in its own right, of a more restricted use than other titles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_du_Sang

Marie-Magdelaine de Becdelièvre comtesse de Ghaisne de Bourmont

Louis-Henry Ier de Bourbon-Condé
(Louis-Henry de Bourbon-Condé)
Titres: prince de Condé, duc de Bourbon, duc de Guise (10e), duc d’Enghien, pair de France, grand-maître de l’Ordre des Chevaliers du Temple

Né en 1692
Décédé en 1740 , à l’âge de 48 ans
Parents
Louis III de Bourbon-Condé , prince de Condé 1668-1710
Louise-Françoise de Bourbon 1673-1743
Union(s) et enfant(s)
Marié avec Marie-Anne de Bourbon-Conti 1689-1720 (Parents : François-Louis de Bourbon-Conti , roi de Pologne 1664-1709 & Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon-Condé , princesse de Conti 1666-1732 )
Marié en 1728 avec Caroline von Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg 1714-1741 dont
Louis Joseph de Bourbon-Condé , duc d’Enghien 1736-1813
Relation avec Armande Félice de La Porte Mazarin 1691-1729 dont
Henriette de Bourbon-Condé 1725-1780
Relation avec Jeanne Berthelot de Pléneuf 1698-1727
Relations
Filleul : Louis II de Ghaisne de Bourmont , comte de Ghaisne 1705-1782
Sources
Personne, famille 2: Gérald de Ghaisne de Bourmont, “Le Livre de Famille” 1996
Union 2: Gérald de Ghaisne de Bourmont, “Le Livre de Famille” 1996²

Exhibition: Marshal Bourmont: itinerary of an angevin grand

Published the February 17, 2013 by geneanjou

Les Archives Department of Maine-et-Loire organized an exhibition of February 18 to May 24, 2013 on the Marshal of the taking of Algiers in 1830 following the classification of the archives of Bourmont as historical archives.

http://www.archives49.fr/Espace-culturel/expositions/lexposition-en-cours/

http://Fr.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Auguste_Victor_de_Ghaisne_de_Bourmont

The reference book is “The general of Bourmont under the reign of Louis XVIII portrait moral and political” by Jean-Baptiste AUZEL, thesis for the École des Chartes 1997

The exhibition shows both the paper, decorations, portraits and busts of family. But the bloody outfit of young Amedeo, Sain of 27 years who was killed during the capture of Algiers, shows that archives are the testimony of the life of families. The exposed bezel seems to still keep a reflection of its owner from the Portugal campaigns the Russia and the Algeria, Marshal whose life was that fidelity to the army and to the legitimate Kings.

His ancestry:

Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisne, aka Marshal Bourmont, count of Bourmont (4th), baron of Bourmont (1, 26 January 1828), born September 2, 1773, Château de Bourmont, Freigné (Maine-et-Loire), died on October 27, 1846, Château de Bourmont, Freigné (Maine-et-Loire) (at the age of 73), Marshal of France, gentleman of the bedchamber of the King, Minister of war (1829-1830).

Generation 2

2 Bourmont Ghaisne Louis, count of Ghaisne (3rd), born September 2, 1742, Freigné (49), died January 21, 1792, Turino (at the age of 49 years).

… married on 28 April 1772, Nantes (Saint Denis),…

3 Josephine Sophie de Coutances, born November 27, 1755, Nantes, 44, called November 28, 1755, Nantes (Saint Denis), died in November 1838, London GB (at the age of 83 years).

Generation 3

4 Louis-Henri de Ghaisne de Bourmont, count of Ghaisne (2nd), born 26 December 1705, baptized 5 September 1706, died November 1, 1782, Château de La Verrerie, Belligné (Loire-Atlantique) (at the age of 76 years).

… married in 1736…

5 Marie Catherine de Valori, born December 6, 1714, Pouancé (Maine-et-Loire), died in 1766 (at the age of 52).

6 Louis Christophe de Coutances, Lord of Celleguenant, born on March 5, 1708, Nantes, baptized March 9, 1708, died April 3, 1774, Nantes, buried April 4, 1774, Nantes (Saint Denis) (age 66).

… married on 18 July 1747, Vertou, 44, with…

7 Anne White victory pig Maurepas, born September 11, 1733, Corfdemais, 44, called on November 23, 1733, Cordemais, 44, died on October 14, 1798 (at age 65).

Generation 4

8 Marie-Henri, count of Ghaisne (1st), Lord of the Gesnetay of Saint Michel du Bois, Freigné and La Cornouaille, born October 10, 1662, died December 10, 1710, Paris (at the age of 48), Knight, teaches a company of men-at-arms of the orders of the King, lieutenant of the marshals of France in Brittany, musketeer of the King.

… married November 19, 1697, Vernantes (Maine-et-Loire), with…

9 Marie-Hélène de Maillé de La Tour – Landry, Lady of Bourmont, born in 1666, died February 22, 1752, Château de Bourmont Freigné (Maine-et-Loire) (at the age of 86 years).

10 Alexis de Valori, Lord of La Vengealliere, born June 16, 1685, Argentre-du-plessis (Ille-et-Vilaine), baptized on 7 July 1685, Argentre-du-plessis (Ille-et-Vilaine), who died after 1742, Governor of Pouancé.

… married in 1714, Pouancé (Maine-et-Loire), with…

11 Marie Catherine fish, born April 30, 1688, Pouancé (Maine-et-Loire), named July 1, 1688, Pouancé (Maine-et-Loire).

12 Christophe de Coutances, Knight, Lord of la Celle and the Bouvardière, born 13 February 1652, Nantes, 44, baptized on 13 February 1652, Nantes (Saint Donatien), died 8 March 1731, buried August 8, 1731, Saint Herblain (44) (age 79).

… married on 18 January 1703, Vertou, 44, with…

13 Renée de Sesmaisons, christened on 28 April 1684, died March 30, 1708 (at the age of perhaps 23 years).

14 René pig de Maurepas, Squire, Lord of La Hague Maheux, sieur Morepas, died June 24, 1742, Nantes, 44, buried June 25, 1742, Nantes (Saint-Nicolas), advise the King’s Secretary, House and Crown of France, former Counsellor of the sovereign Council of Cape Town.

… married in 1730…

15 Marthe Queen Rose Desclos, born in July 1712, died April 5, 1736, Nantes, 44, buried on 6 April 1736, Nantes (Saint-Nicolas) (at age 23).

Generation 5

16 Pierre de Ghaisne, Lord of the Gesnetay, born around 1629, died May 31, 1674, Paris, buried on 2 June 1674, Church of Saint Germain l’Auxerrois (at the age of maybe 45 years), lawyer at the présidial seat of le Mans.

… married on April 16, 1657, (Maine-et-Loire), with…

17 Perrine Marie du Rocher, died in April 1688, (Maine-et-Loire), buried, in the choir of the Church, Saint Michel, Angers-(Maine-et-Loire).

18 Charles de Maillé de La Tour – Landry, marquis of Jalesnes, born about 1635, died in 1701 (to age perhaps 66).

… married on 30 November 1663, (Maine-et-Loire), with…

19 Marie Madeleine de Broc, born in 1629, died January 30, 1713, Parigné-le-Pôlin (Sarthe) (at the age of 84).

20 Philibert de Valori, Lord of La Pommeraye and the Vaugeliere.

… married on 25 September 1678 with…

21 Marcillé Renee, born January 10, 1661, deceased.

22 Stone fish, seigneur of Saint-Erblon (Mayenne), sieur of the brush (Saint – Erblon, Mayenne), born January 5, 1654, Saint-Erblon (Mayenne), lawyer.

23 Catherine Bidault of Rochefort, born in 1656, died 7 August 1722, La Madeleine, Pouancé (49) (at the age of 66 years).

24 Hardouin de Coutances, Lord of the saddle, born November 29, 1616, Nantes, 44, baptized November 29, 1616, Nantes (Sainte Radegonde), died March 25, 1664 (at age 47).

… married…

25 Ursule Toublanc, born February 11, 1622, Nantes, died May 12, 1655, parish Saint-Vincent, Nantes (at the age of 33).

26 René de Sesmaisons, Knight, Lord of the Sauziniere, born 1644, died in 1686, buried in the Church of Saint Simien in Nantes (at age 42).

… married on 29 April 1680, Nantes St Leonard, with…

27 Leon Champsneufs, died 9 February 1695, Nantes (44), buried February 10, 1695, Nantes (44).

28 René pig, Squire, sieur of Morepas, Lord of La Hague-Maheas and Cordemais, born June 27, 1676, Nantes, 44, called June 27, 1676, Nantes (Saint Nicolas), died June 25, 1742 (at age 65), Adviser Secretary Roy, House and Crown of France.

… married in 1707…

29 Perrine C.v..

30 Jacques Desclos, Squire, Lord of the Gina, La Fonchais and La Richardière, born 28 February 1662, Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), baptized 28 February 1662, parish Saint-Sauveur, Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), killed on 7 September 1743, Château de La Gina, Saint-Senoux (Ille-et-Vilaine) (at the age of 81 years), advise the King in the Chancellery of Brittany’s Secretary, Constable of Rennes.

… married March 15, 1706, parish of Saint – Jean Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), with…

31 Rose Le Baillif de Croyal, baptized October 31, 1688, St. Croix, Vannes (Morbihan), died April 19, 1719, Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) (at the age of maybe 30 years).

Generation 6

32 Pierre de Ghaisne, born circa 1600, died before 1671, lawyer, Seneschal of the duc de Brissac.

… married in 1628…

33 Mary Girard.

34 René du Rocher, lawyer at the présidial of Angers.

… married…

35 Hélène April, born circa 1605, died in 1655 (at the age of maybe 50).

36 Louis de Maillé de La Tour – Landry, marquis of Gilbourg (1649), marquis de Bourmont and Jalesnes, Lord of La Beuneche, who died in 1674.

… married April 27, 1634 with…

37 Eleanor, Lady Jalesnes and La Beuneche, born in 1614, deceased.

38 Michel de Broc, baron of Chemire, Lord of Moulines, died after 1634.

… married on 22 February 1628, Coutrolle, with…

39 Marie-Madeleine of Chesne.

40 Brandelis de Valori, born 5 October 1614.

… married on May 13, 1653, the Pihorais Castle, with…

41 Mary of the Hautonniere.

42 Paul Marcillé, born on 20 January 1630, glass, 35, died.

… married may 7, 1657 with…

43 Hélène de wood.

44 John fish.

… married on 12 February 1652, Saint-Erblon, with…

45 Jacquine Pecot. Parents: 90 and 91.

48 Valentin de Coutances, Lord of the saddle, who died in November 1646, Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), buried on 10 November 1646, parish St Vincent, Nantes (Loire-Atlantique).

… married in 1620…

Claude 49, Poittras.

50 Claude Toublanc, sieur Bouvardière, Adviser to the King in Parliament of Brittany.

… married in 1618…

51 Camille chaplain.

52 Claude de Sesmaisons, Lord of La Sauziniere, baron of Sesmaisons, born in 1607, died, conseiller Maître at the chambre des comptes.

… married February 19, 1634, Nantes (St Laurent), Loire Atlantique, with…

53 Beard Le Bigot, born in 1616, died.

54 Jean, sieur of the Champsneufs and the Macllais, born on 12 may 1604, Nantes, deceased, Adviser to the King in his councils of State and master of requests of the hotel of the Queen Regent.

… married February 6, 1635, Nantes, with…

55 Jeanne Viau, Lady of the Meillere.

56 René Cochon, sieur de Morepas and La Fouquerie, born about 1631, died June 8, 1698, Nantes, 44, buried 9 June 1698, Nantes (Saint Nicholas) (at the age of maybe 67), merchant.

… married may 2, 1673, Nantes (St-Nicolas de Nantes, Chapel St-Julien of the pit),…

57 Marie Massuau, born March 25, 1652, Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), St Nicolas, died January 11, 1690, Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), St Nicolas (at the age of 37 years).

60 Hervé Desclos.

… married 5 November 1654, Rennes (35) (Tousaints), with…

61 Françoise Mahé.

62 Roland Baillif, President at the Court.

… married…

63 Marie-Françoise the Bastard.

Generation 7

64 Guillaume de Ghaisne, Lord of the Gesnetay, born ca. 1570, died in 1627 (at the age of maybe 57), lawyer.

… married around 1595 with…

65 Françoise Aubert.

66 Gabriel Girard.

70 Pierre April, born in 1569, died.

… married in 1603…

71 Olivier Jeanne.

72 Jean de Maillé de La Tour – Landry, Lord of Bourmont, baron of La Tour-Landry, Guillebourg and Saint-Chartier, count of Châteauroux, died November 30, 1635.

… married on 9 January 1602 with…

73 Louise de Chateaubriand.

74 Charles, Lord of Jalesnes, Marquis de Jalesnes (1, 1634), baron of Beuneche, Knight, born in 1588, who died in 1642, was buried, Church of Vernantes (at the age of 54 years), ordinary gentleman of the bedchamber of the King, Adviser in his councils of State, private and finance, Captain of 100 men at arms by orders of the King,

… married September 16, 1613 with…

75 Eleanor of mesh, died April 9, 1644, buried, Vernantes Church.

76 Broc François, baron of Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, Lizardiere and Chemire, died after 1601.

… married March 11, 1596 with…

77 Françoise de Montmorency, alias belle Fosseuse, born in 1566, died on 6 December 1641, buried, Church of Broc (at age 75), Maid of honor of Queen Margot (from 1579 to 1581), she was the mistress of Henri IV before his marriage.

78 François du Chesne.

79 Marguerite Richehomme.

80 Valori Guy, Lord of Chantetepie, Chair, la Motte and la Pommeraye, died May 20, 1657, gentleman of the bedchamber of Kings Henri IV and Louis XIII.

… married may 29, 1604 with…

81 Anne Gill.

82 Jean de Hautonniere, Lord of the Pihoyrays, the Beuscherie, the Poupardiere and La Villaine, ordinary gentleman of the bedchamber of the King.

… married in 1619…

83 Françoise de Tremigon.

84 Joachim Marcillé, born February 15, 1601, glass, 35, died April 13, 1663, glass, 35 (at the age of 62).

… married in 1616…

Jeanne 85, Besnardais.

88 Stone fish.

89 Marie Nicole, born in 1597, died in August 1677 (at the age of 80).

90 Stone Pecot.

91 Jacquine Adron, died December 30, 1657, Saint-Erblon (Mayenne).

96 René de Coutances, Lord of Badli, died in 1602, Turin, Italy.

… married in 1570…

97 Benign cross.

98 Jacques Poittras.

99 Marguerite Vestre.

100 Yves Toublanc, sieur de Montigny, Adviser to the King, general counsel the Court of the Parliament of Brittany.

… married 5 November 1590, St-Laurent de Nantes, with…

101 Prudence of Complude, Lady of the Bouvardière, born March 16, 1571, St-Nicolas de Nantes.

104 Christophe de Sesmaisons, Lord of the Sauziniere.

… married 1 October 1595 with…

105 Françoise de Lesrat.

106 Jean Le Bigot, sieur of La Porte, born January 15, 1581, Nantes, died July 14, 1631, Nantes (at the age of 50), Adviser to the Chamber of accounts in Nantes.

… married August 3, 1606, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Saint Jacques, with…

107 Beard Viau, called December 5, 1584, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Saint Jacques, deceased, buried August 16, 1633, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Saint Denis (at the age of perhaps 48).

108 Jacques Bourriau, sieur of the Champsneufs, born around 1564, Saint Nicolas, Nantes (at the age of maybe 53), negotiating died February 15, 1617, ship-owner, consul of the merchants of Nantes in 1606, Deputy Mayor of Nantes from 1608 to 1611.

… married on May 8, 1601, St. Croix, Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), with…

109 Renée Fachu, Lady of the Genestay, born 2 December 1580, Ste-Croix de Nantes, 44, died on 4 August 1645, St-Nicolas de Nantes, 44 (at the age of 64 years).

114 Christophe Massuau, died May 31, 1661, Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), St Nicolas, merchant in the pit, listener in the room accounts.

115 Marie de Bourgues, born January 7, 1618, Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), St Nicolas, who died October 12, 1691, Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), St Nicolas (at the age of 73).

122 Guillaume Mahé.

123 Perronnelle Mérault.

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Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon, Prince de Condé (Louis Henri Joseph; 18 August 1692 – 27 January 1740) was head of the Bourbon-Condé cadet branch of the France’s reigning House of Bourbon from 1710 to his death, and served as prime minister to his kinsman Louis XV from 1723 to 1726.

Despite succeeding as head of the House of Condé in 1709, he never used that name, preferring the title “Duke of Bourbon”, and was known at court as Monsieur le Duc. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a prince du sang.

A prince of the blood was a person who was legitimately descended in the male line from the monarch of a country. In France, the rank of prince du sang was the highest held at court after the immediate family of the king during the ancien régime and the Bourbon Restoration. A prince du sang or a princesse du sang had to be a legitimate member of the reigning dynasty (after 1589, the House of Bourbon). In some European monarchies, but especially in the kingdom of France, this appellation was a specific rank in its own right, of a more restricted use than other titles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_du_Sang

Marie-Magdelaine de Becdelièvre
(Marie-Magdelaine de Becdelièvre de La Bunelaye)
(Marie-Magdelaine Julienne de Becdelièvre)
Alias:  Juliette
Titres: comtesse de Ghaisne de Bourmont

Née le 14 juin 1776 – château de La Seilleraye, Carquefou, Loire-Atlantique, France
Baptisée le 15 juin 1776 – Saint-Vincent, Nantes, évêché de Nantes, Bretagne
Décédée le 30 septembre 1840 – Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France , à l’âge de 64 ans
Parents
Hilarion , marquis de Becdelièvre 1743-1792
Marie-Victoire de Coutances , marquise de Becdelièvre 1749-1802
Union(s) et enfant(s)
Mariée le 2 avril 1800 , Paris, Seine, avec Louis IV de Ghaisne de Bourmont , maréchal de France 1773-1846 (Parents : Louis III de Ghaisne de Bourmont , comte de Ghaisne 1742-1791 & Joséphine-Marie de Coutances , comtesse de Ghaisne ?1755-1838 ) dont
Louis V , comte de Ghaisne de Bourmont 1801-1882 marié le 20 novembre 1847 avec Marie-Anne de Crespat , comtesse de Ghaisne de Bourmont 1827-1893
Marie de Ghaisne de Bourmont 1802-1868 mariée en 1836 avec Félix Pantin , baron de Landemont 1801-
Amédée de Ghaisne de Bourmont , vicomte 1803-1830
Charles de Ghaisne de Bourmont , comte de Ghaisne 1807-1876 marié le 1er mai 1843 avec Marie Le Normand de Viette , dame de Maltot 1826-1908
Adolphe de Ghaisne de Bourmont , vicomte 1808-1883
Ernestine de Ghaisne de Bourmont 1809-1839 mariée le 4 octobre 1838 avec Fidèle , marquis de Langle
César de Ghaisne de Bourmont , vicomte 1814-1854
Frères et sœurs
Hilarion de Becdelièvre †1775
Anne Christophe , marquis de Becdelièvre 1775-1795
Emilie de Becdelièvre , dame de La Seilleraye 1781-1810
Félicité de Becdelièvre 1781-1810
Louis-Christophe , marquis de Becdelièvre 1783-1855
Relations
Parrain et marraine :
François Jullien , marquis de Rosily 1765-
Marie de Coutances †1776/

https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/illustrious-kindred-of-virginia-hambley/

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1895-09-02/ed-1/seq-5/ocr.txt

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duc_de_Brissac

https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/illustrious-kindred-of-virginia-hambley/

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1895-09-02/ed-1/seq-5/ocr.txt

https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/house-of-bourbon-in-pans-labyrinth/

After leaving the world of darkness, the princess had many “reincarnations,” that is, Spain assumed many different faces during its history. The film focuses only on the 20th century transition from Monarchy to the Franco Regime and then from this one to the new Monarchy we are witnessing today. The Spain of that time, Ofelia, had been born from the marriage of her mother, Carmen – the Catholic Church – with the monarchical regime that preceded the Civil War – her father, is presented as a tailor, a man concerned only with appearances. It is an understandable portrayal of the superficial monarchy of that preceded the Civil War, very concerned about status, titles and appearances.

Soon after the death of her husband – the end of the old Monarchy – the Catholic Church married Francoism, represented by Captain Vidal. In this marriage, a son – a new regime – was conceived. During her difficult pregnancy, the Church is sick and completely dominated by Francoism, which obliges her to come to his headquarters to give birth to the infant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XIII_of_Spain

Engagement and marriage[edit source | editbeta]

Photograph taken moments after the assassination attempt on Alfonso and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg on their wedding day.
Alfonso met Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg while on a state visit to the United Kingdom in 1905, where he was hosted at Buckingham Palace by her uncle, King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. Obstacles to the relationship included Alfonso’s mother, who desired that he married a member of her royal house, the Habsburgs; the presence of haemophilia in the genes of the British royal family; and Victoria’s Protestantism. However, Maria Christina was eventually convinced by January 1906 to write an official letter to Victoria’s mother, Princess Beatrice. Victoria met Maria Christina and Alfonso in Biarritz, France, later that month, and converted to Catholicism in San Sebastian in March of that year.
In May, diplomats of both kingdoms officially executed the agreement of marriage. Alfonso and Victoria were married at the Royal Monastery of San Jerónimo in Madrid on 31 May 1906, with British royalty including Victoria’s cousins the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King George V and Queen Mary in attendance. The wedding was marred by an assassination attempt on Alfonso and Victoria by the Catalan anarchist Mateu Morral, whose bomb killed bystanders.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bourbon

Philip V[edit source | editbeta]
The Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon was founded by Philip V. He was born in 1683 in Versailles, the second son of the Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV. He was Duke of Anjou and probably never expected to be raised to a rank higher than that. However King Charles II of Spain, dying without issue, willed the throne to his grand-nephew the Duke of Anjou, younger grandson of his eldest sister Marie-Thérèse, daughter of King Philip IV of Spain who had married Louis XIV of France.
The prospect of Bourbons on both the French and Spanish thrones was resisted as creating an imbalance of power in Europe by its dominant regimes and, upon Charles II’s death on 1 November 1700, a Grand Alliance of European nations united against Philip. This was known as the War of Spanish Succession. In the Treaty of Utrecht, signed on 11 April 1713, Philip was recognized as king of Spain but his renunciation of succession rights to France was affirmed and, of the Spanish Empire’s other European territories, Sicily was ceded to Savoy, and the Spanish Netherlands, Milan and Naples were alloted to the Austrian Habsburgs.
Philip had two sons by his first wife. After her death he married Elisabeth Farnese, niece of Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma, in 1714. She presented Philip with three sons, for whom she had ambitions of securing Italian crowns. Thus she induced Philip to occupy Sardinia and Sicily in 1717.