Maria Luisa of Savoy | |||||
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Queen of Spain | |||||
Tenure | 2 November 1701 – 14 February 1714 | ||||
Born | Royal Palace of Turin, Duchy of Savoy | 17 August 1688||||
Died | 14 February 1714 Royal Alcazar of Madrid, Kingdom of Spain | (aged 25)||||
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Spouse | Philip V of Spain | ||||
Issue | Louis I of Spain Ferdinand VI of Spain | ||||
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House | House of Bourbon House of Savoy | ||||
Father | Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy | ||||
Mother | Anne Marie d'Orléans | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Maria Luisa of Savoy (17 September 1688 – 14 February 1714) was the first wife of Philip V of Spain. She loved her husband a lot and gave him four children. She had a lot of influence in the government but died exhausted in 1714. Her husband remarried to Elisabeth Farnese in December 1714. She was very popular in Spain.
Named after her aunt the former Queen of Spain she was the second daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Savoy. At her fathers court it was well known that her father was having an affair with the Countess of Verua. This therefore put strain on her parents marriage. She was always close to her sister Marie Adélaïde.
She married Philip V in 1701 and had four children: