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Bourbon

Bourbon

27 9.1
A royal family that ruled France, Spain, and parts of Italy
  • proper noun
  • /ˈbɜrbən/
translation icon : Casa de Borbón
  • King Louis XVI belonged to the Bourbon family, which ruled France until the revolution of 1789.
  • Bourbon dynasty
  • Bourbon Restoration
  • Bourbon period

Examples

  • A month later, Napoleon abdicated and Victor switched his loyalty to the Bourbon monarchy with surprising zeal.

  • The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is ruled by Spanish Bourbon King Ferdinand the Second.

  • By the time of this painting he had ten children with his first wife, Isabel de Bourbon, but only one son and heir.

  • The new urban spaces created by Bourbon administrators in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Havana generated new sites of sociability.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The Bourbon dynasty was known for its significant influence on European politics during the 17th and 18th centuries.

  • Following the restoration in 1814, the Bourbon monarchy returned to power in France for a brief period.

Synonyms

Bourbon dynasty
vsBourbon
7.8

A European royal family that ruled France and later Spain and southern Italy

is the shorter, more general name for the same royal house

Compounds

Bourbon dynasty
7.8

A European royal family that ruled France and later Spain and southern Italy

Surface Forms

Bourbon main

Etymology

Bourbon is the name of a ruling family that comes from the French town of Bourbon, and their name became the name for the whole dynasty. So the Bourbon dynasty means the family that ruled France, Spain, and other places.