MatrimonioSe cas en 1714 con el rey viudo de Espaa, Felipe V, gracias a las buenas gestiones del obispo y cardenal italiano de Mlaga, Julio Alberoni, al que ascendi a primer ministro a su llegada a la corte. Mujer de gran belleza, pese a las marcas que tena en su cara, fruto de unas viruelas infantiles, posea un cuerpo esbelto y atractivo, al tiempo que era acreedora de un fuerte carcter y una personalidad autoritaria que le otorg una gran influencia en la corte de la poca. En su cada vez ms continuado aislamiento personal, Felipe V reduca su crculo personal, lo que convirti a la reina Isabel en una pieza fundamental en la poltica del momento. Mientras el monarca caa en depresiones que lo suman en una melancola y desconsuelo cada vez ms intensos, con un abandono cada vez ms prolongado de su higiene personal en esos periodos, Isabel utilizaba todas sus influencias en pos de sus ambiciones personales para colocar a sus amados hijos en los tronos de Europa. 
Vida pblicaFue apodada despectivamente "la parmesana". Julio Alberoni la describi as a su llegada a Madrid: "Se trata de una buena muchacha de veintids aos, fecha, insignificante, que se atiborra de mantequilla y de queso parmesano y que jams ha odo hablar de nada que no sea coser o bordar". De todas formas, en su reinado como esposa de Felipe V form una importante coleccin de arte; cada cnyuge marcaba sus cuadros con un smbolo dinstico diferenciado (la flor de lis y un aspa) y la reina se aficion especialmente a los cuadros de Murillo, que compr en gran nmero. Tambin fue esta real pareja la responsable de la compra de la coleccin escultrica de Cristina de Suecia, que incluye el Grupo de San Ildefonso y las ocho "Musas" (todos ellos expuestos ahora en el Museo del Prado).La reina nunca mostr afecto, sino desdn, por sus hijastros. Para ella, los descendientes del primer matrimonio del rey con Mara Luisa Gabriela de Saboya constituan un escollo ms para lograr su principal objetivo: dotar a sus hijos Carlos (futuro Carlos III) y Felipe de un reino donde gobernar. Mientras Felipe V vivi, la relacin entre Isabel y sus hijastros (sobre todo con el infante Fernando) se caracteriz por una continua ignorancia mutua, en base a una aparente cordialidad. Isabel tampoco se revel como una madre amorosa con los seis hijos que tuvo, ya que consumi todo su tiempo y energas a las intrigas polticas para, precisamente, forjarles ese brillante porvenir que tanto ansiaba para ellos.Su poltica estuvo orientada a recuperar para la monarqua espaola los territorios italianos perdidos por el tratado de Utrecht. As, consigui para su hijo Carlos (futuro Carlos III) el reino de Npoles y Sicilia adems de dotar a su otro hijo, Felipe, del ducado de Parma. Cuando qued viuda, su hijastro, Fernando VI de Espaa, la desterr al Real Sitio de la Granja de San Ildefonso en Segovia, aunque ella se construy otra residencia cerca, el Palacio Real de Riofro. En esos aos de destierro, Isabel de Farnesio vivi dedicada a su vida personal, pero siempre atenta a la evolucin del reinado de su hijastro, sobre todo atenta a la salud y vida privada de Fernando VI, especialmente tras la muerte de su esposa, Brbara de Braganza. Al morir aquel sin descendencia en 1759 (despus de caer en un perodo de depresiones cercanas a la demencia), lo que propici la subida al trono de su hijo Carlos, volvi a la corte, pero las continuas peleas y discusiones con su nuera, Mara Amalia de Sajonia, la hicieron volver a su exilio hasta el fin de sus das en la localidad madrilea de Aranjuez (Madrid). 
DescendenciaDe su matrimonio con el rey Felipe V tuvo siete hijos:-Carlos III (1716 1788), rey de Espaa y de las Dos Sicilias.- Francisco (1717).- Mariana Victoria (1718 1781), reina de Portugal, esposa de Jos I.- Felipe (1720 1765), duque de Parma.-Mara Teresa (1726 1746), esposa de Luis, Delfn de Francia (hijo del rey Luis XV).- Luis Antonio (17271785), arzobispo de Toledo y cardenal, desde 1735 hasta 1754. Abandon la vida eclesistica.-Mara Antonia (1729 1785). Esposa de Vctor Amadeo III de Cerdea.FallecimientoEn 1766 muere Isabel, siendo enterrada junto a los restos de su difunto marido Felipe V en el Palacio Real de la Granja de San Ildefonso, concretamente en un mausoleo emplazado en la Real Colegiata de la Santsima Trinidad, en la llamada Sala de las Reliquias, templo inserto en el propio palacio, ubicado en la localidad de La Granja de San Ildefonso (provincia de Segovia), a escasos kilmetros de Segovia. 
------------------------------------------------------------------Isabel de Farnesio was born in the Italian city of Parma, as the second daughter of the Prince Inheritor of Parma, Eduardo II Farnesio, and of Sofa Dorotea of Bavaria-Neoburgo.The successive deaths of his major brother, Alejandro Ignacio (August 5, 1693) and of his father (September 6, 1693), leave her as the third one in the successor line of the duchy of Parma, preceded only by his two uncles, Francisco (who would turn into his stepfather into 1696) and Antonio Farnesio, that they would reign in the duchy of Parma one after other one, dying without any descent. This was turning Isabel in only and inheritor of the conditions legitimizes both of the Farnesio and of the Mdicis (route his paternal great-grandmother, Margarita de Mdicis), as soon as this family went out in 1743.There married in 1714 the king widower of Spain, Philip V, thanks to the good negotiations of the bishop and Italian cardinal of Malaga, Julio Alberoni, whom it promoted to prime minister at his arrival to the court. Woman of great beauty, in spite of the brands that it had in his face, fruit of a few infantile smallpox, was possessing a slender and attractive body, at the time that it was creditor of a strong character and an authoritarian personality that granted a great influence to him in the court of the epoch. In his increasingly continued personal isolation, Philip V was reducing his personal circle, which turned the queen Isabel into a fundamental piece into the politics of the moment. While the monarch was falling down in depressions that were plunging it in a melancholy and I distress increasingly intense, with an abandon increasingly longThere was nicknamed contemptuously " the Parmesan one ". Julio Alberoni described it this way at his arrival to Madrid: " it is a question of a twenty-two-year-old good, ugly, insignificant girl, who fills herself of butter and of Parmesan cheese and who has never heard speaking about anything that is not to sew or to embroider ". Of all forms, in his reign like wife of Philip V it formed an important collection of art; every spouse was marking his pictures with a dynastic differentiated symbol (the fleur-de-lis and an arm) and the queen got fond specially of the pictures of Murillo, which he bought in great number. Also there was this royal equal the person in charge of the purchase of Cristina's sculptural collection of Sweden, who includes the Group of San Ildefonso and eight "Muses" (all of them exposed now in the Prado Museum).The queen never proved to be sympathetic, but disdain, for his step-sons. For her, the descendants from the first marriage of the king with Maria Luisa Gabriela of Savoy were constituting one more reef to achieve his principal aim: to endow his children Carlos (future Carlos III) and Philip of a kingdom where to govern. While Philip V lived, the relation between Isabel and his step-sons (especially with the infante Fernando) was characterized by a continuous mutual ignorance, on the basis of an apparent warmth. Isabel was not also revealed as a loving mother by six children that it had, since it consumed all his time and energies to the political intrigues, precisely, they to be forged by this brilliant future for that so much it was longing for them.His politics was orientated to recover for the Spanish monarchy the Italian territories lost by the agreement of Utrecht. This way, it obtained for his son Carlos (future Carlos III) the kingdom of Naples and Sicily beside endowing his another son, Philip, of the duchy of Parma. When she remained a widow, his step-son, Fernando VI of Spain, exiled it to the Royal summer residence of San Ildefonso's Farm in Segovia, though she constructed another residence herself it surrounds, Riofro's Royal palace. In these years of exile, Isabel de Farnesio lived dedicated to his personal life, but always attentive to the evolution of the reign of his step-son, especially it commits an outrage against the health and life deprived of Fernando VI, specially after the death of his wife, Barbara de Braganza. When that one dies without descent in 1759 ( After falling in a period of depressions near to the dementia), which propitiated the raise to the throne of his son Carlos, it returned to the court, but the continuous ones you fight and discussions with his daughter-in-law, Maria Amalia of Saxony, they made it return to his exile up to the end of his days in the locality of Madrid Aranjuez's (Madrid)********************************************************************************En honor a nuestra querida Reina madre, Isabel de Farnesio, de su mas devota admiradora y cortesa:La Duquesa de Huscar.
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