She was born of a cadet branch of the Bourbon Counts of Busset, male-line descendants of Louis de Bourbon (1437–1482), prince du sang, Bishop of Liège,[1] allegedly by a liaison with Catherine de Gueldres.[2] Her father was Georges de Bourbon-Busset, Count de Lignières (1860–1932), and her mother Marie Jeanne née de Kerret-Quillien (1866–1958).[3]
In 1936, Alfonso Carlos, the last undisputed head of the Carlist movement, appointed her husband Xavier as Carlist "regent". Madeleine actively supported her husband's political activities and social views.[3] Madeleine was the author of "Catherine de Médicis", published in France in 1940.[1]
In 1977 she supported her son Sixtus in his political dispute with Carlos Hugo.[4] and accused Princess Cecile and Carlos Hugo of taking her husband out of the hospital against the instructions of the doctors to force him to sign a manifesto against Traditionalism.[5] After the death of her husband she repudiated and disinherited her children Carlos Hugo, María Teresa, Cecilia and Nieves, and ordered that upon her death they could not attend the wake for his corpse in the castle of Lignières.[6]
18. Louis Albert de Calonne, marquis de Courtebonne
9. Idalie de Calonne de Courtebonne
19. Charlotte Henriette de Cocherel
2. Georges de Bourbon-Busset, comte de Lignières
20. Joseph-Augustin de Mailly, marquis d'Haucourt
10. Adrien de Mailly, marquis de Nesle
21. Blanche Charlotte de Narbonne-Pelet
5. Adrienne de Mailly de Nesle
22. Alexandre de Lonlay, marquis de Villepail
11. Eugénie Henriette de Lonlay
23. Anne Louise de Trie de Pillevoine
1. Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset
24. Alexandre Jean de Kerret, seigneur de Quillien
12. Charles-Fidèle de Kerret, vicomte de Quillien
25. Marie Françoise Le Borgne de Kermovan
6. René de Kerret, vicomte de Quillien
26. Antoine Lefebvre de La Faluère, seigneur de Jallanges
13. Marie Marguerite Lefebvre de La Faluère
27. Agathe Bonnin de La Bonninière de Beaumont
3. Marie Jeanne de Kerret de Quillien
28. Étienne Gautier
14. Claude Joseph Gautier
29. Eugénie Bonnel-Labarthe
7. Marie Léonie Gautier
30. Joseph Philibert Vespre
15. Claudine Benoîte Vespre
31. Elisabeth Benoîte Gourd
References and notes
^ abcdEnache, Nicolas. La Descendance de Marie-Therese de Habsburg. ICC, Paris, 1996. pp. 416-417, 422. (French). ISBN2-908003-04-X
^Anselme, Père. ‘’Histoire de la Maison Royale de France’’, tome 4. Editions du Palais-Royal, 1967, Paris. pp. 307, 375. (French).
^ abcdede Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. ‘’Le Petit Gotha’’. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery, Paris 2002, (French) p. 586-589 ISBN2-9507974-3-1
^Balansó, Juan (1994). La familia rival: la historia silenciada de los Borbones que reinaron en Parma y disputaron el trono a Juan Carlos de España. Espejo de Espana Serie Biografías y memorias (1 ed.). Barcelona: Ed. Planeta. ISBN978-84-08-01247-4.
^Casals, Xavier (2005). Franco y los Borbones: la corona de España y sus pretendientes. España escrita. Barcelona: Planeta. ISBN978-84-08-06313-1.