Blanca de Borbón

Blanca de Borbón
Archduchess Leopold Salvator of Austria
Born(1868-09-07)7 September 1868
Graz, Styria, Austria-Hungary
Died25 October 1949(1949-10-25) (aged 81)
Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy
Spouse
(m. 1889; died 1931)
IssueArchduchess Dolores
Archduchess Immaculata
Archduchess Margaretha
Archduke Rainer
Archduke Leopold
Archduchess Maria Antonia
Archduke Anton
Archduchess Assunta
Archduke Franz Josef
Archduke Karl Pius
HouseBourbon
FatherCarlos de Borbón y Austria-Este
MotherPrincess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma

Blanca de Borbón (7 September 1868 – 25 October 1949) was the eldest child of Carlos de Borbón y Austria-Este, Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain and Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma. Blanca was a member of the House of Bourbon and - according to the Carlists - an Infanta of Spain by birth. In 1889, she married Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany, with whom she had ten children. The family left Austria after the end of the monarchy and finally settled in Barcelona. When the male line of Blanca's family died out at the death of her uncle, Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, some of the Carlists recognized her as the legitimate heiress to the Spanish throne.