The

life of
Infant
Gabriel
Bourbon

BY CONDESSA DE MELO
The
life of
Infant
Gabriel
Bourbon

By Condessa de Melo
 Introduction

This book tells the most remarkable

facts of the life of the brilliant Spanish
Infant Gabriel de Bourbon, son of
Carlos III, married to Mariana Vitória
de Portugal, leaving three children as
heirs.

Infant Gabriel of Bourbon died

prematurely and his legacy keep
through memories, paintings and his
casita, open for visitation in Spain. 
Gabriel de Bourbon, borned as Gabriel
Antônio Francisco Xavier João
Nepomuceno José Serafim Pascoal
Salvador.

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He was borned in Portici, a small town and
comune of the Metropolitan City of Naples
in Italy, in may 12, 1752.

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 He was a Spanish Infant, a title of nobility
given to the legitimate heirs of the King or
Queen of Portuguese and Spanish
monarchies, who are not heirs to the crown
or are not well positioned in the line of royal
succession.

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 Curiously, Infants, when sovereign,
cannot grant titles of nobility; if the
monarchy is hereditary its heir will not
be noble, but a Prince or a Royal
Princess, being treated like High Royal
Highness (HRH), Sua Alteza Real (SAR)
or Alteza Real (SAR).

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A model of an infant's crown.

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Coat of arms of Infante Gabriel of Spain.

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 Gabriel of Bourbon was the son of Carlos
III, King of Spain from 1759 until his death,
and also King of Naples with Charles VII
and of Sicily as Charles V from his
conquests in 1734 until his abdication in
1759.

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 He was a child with high abilities, very
intelligent and one of the most dedicated
children of Carlos III, a man considered to
be of a vast culture.

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 He was a translator for Salustio, one of the
great writers and poets of Latin literature for
describing Júlio Cesar's speech in great detail.

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 He was considered a true enlightenment,
people who, since ancient times, have
encouraged and sponsored artists, educated
and literate, and more broadly, a variety of
artistic, scientific and cultural activities.

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 He had as his music teacher, Rev. Antonio
Soler, a Spanish composer whose works
framed between the Baroque and the classical
period.

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He produced more than 500 musical works,
some of which are believed to have been
written for his music student, Infant Gabriel
of Bourbon.

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All Soler's sonatas were cataloged in the early
twentieth century by Fr. Samuel Rubio and so
all was awarded a number R.

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Soler composed lots of harpsichord cantatas,
an instrument that is part of the group of key
instruments and that of plucked strings, that
is, they generate the sound by tapping or
pinching a string instead of striking it as on
the piano or clavichord.

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 Soler and his student performed several duo
concerts in the Basilica of El Escorial, in Spain,
where the Escorial Monastery is located.

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 In 1771, Gabriel entrusted Juan de Villánueva
with the so-called Casita del infante,
constructed as a private home for the Infante
Gabriel of Spain, hence its name. The small
residence was built during the late 18th
century during the reign of his father Charles
III of Spain.

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He joined Infanta Mariana Victoria of Portugal,
she was the daughter of Maria I of Portugal
and Peter III of Portugal, at first in a
presentation ceremony to the public on April
12, 1785 and then at a first meeting in Aranjuez
on May 23.

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 Gabriel was third in line to the Spanish
Throne during that period and Gabriel was
second in line to his throne from 1759 to 1775.

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 He was later made the Grand Prior of the
Orden Hospitalaria de San Juan in Castilla y
León.

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 The couple had three children but only one
survived infancy; their eldest child, Infante
Peter Charles, was later made an Infante of
Portugal by his grandmother who had him
raised at her court at Royal Palace of Queluz.

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At the birth of his last child, Infante Charles,
he and his wife were in residence at Gabriel's
Casita del Infante at El Escorial. While there,
Gabriel caught smallpox and died, aged only
36.

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His wife succumbed to the illness also and
died, aged just 19, on 2 November, in the
Casita del Infante, El Escorial, Spain.

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The three children were all buried at the El
Escorial complex.

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Infant Pedro Carlos Antonio Rafael José Javier
Francisco Juan Nepomuceno Tomás de
Villanueva Marcos Marcelino Vicente Ferrer
Raimundo of Spain (Royal Palace of Aranjuez,
18 June 1786 - Rio de Janeiro, 4 July 1812), was
married Infante Teresa, Princess of Beira; had
one child, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and
Spain, born in Rio de Janeiro on 4 November
1811.

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 Infanta María Carlota Josefa Joaquina Ana
Rafaela Antonieta Francisca de Asís Agustina
Magdalena Francisca de Paula Clotilde
Lutgarda Te of Spain (Casita del Infante, 4
November - Casita del Infante, 11 November
1787).

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Infant Carlos José Antonio of Spain (Casita del
Infante, 28 October - Casita del Infante 9
November 1788).

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 Titles and styles

12 May 1752 - 6 October 1759: His Royal Highness

Prince Gabriel of Naples and Sicily, Infante of
Spain
6 October 1759 - 23 November 1788: His Royal
Highness Don Gabriel, Infante of Spain, Prince of
Naples, Prince of Sicily etc.

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 Honours

12 May 1752 Knight of the Order of the Golden

Fleece

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Books:

Juan Martínez Cuesta, El Infante Don Gabriel de

Borbón y Sajonia, Real Maestranza de Ronda,
Madrid, 1998.
Antonio Pau, Los retratos del Infante Don Gabriel,
Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y
Genealogía, Madrid, 2006.

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Condessa de Melo, is a 33, living in a small city
with your parents and dogs. She learned
everything about kings, queens, brasses, travel
and castles. She is academical and actually is
working in a new dictionary edition, royal
biographies, painters studies, and she opened
her own book company and a foundation.