Everything about Gabriel De Borb N totally explained
Gabriel de Borbón y Wettin (
Portici,
May 12 1752 -
El Escorial,
November 23 1788) was an infante of Spain.
Born as
Gabriel Antonio Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno José Serafin Pascual Salvador, he was the fourth son of
Charles III of Spain and
Maria Amalia of Saxony.
Of all the sons of Charles III, Gabriel was the most intelligent and hardworking. He was very cultured, renown to be an excellent translator of
Sallust and a true
Maecenas. He had
Antonio Soler as his music teacher, who composed several sonatas on
harpsichord especially for his gifted pupil, as well as concerts for two organs to be interpreted together in the El Escorial church.
He was Grand Prior of the
Orden Hospitalaria de San Juan in Castilla y León. In 1771 he instructed
Juan de Villanueva to build the so called
Casita del Infante.
He died at the age of 36, just a few months before his father. His death caused the monarch the most profound sadness.
He had married
Infanta Mariana Vitória of Portugal on
April 12 1785 in Lisbon, and again on
May 23 of the same year in Aranjuez.
The couple had 3 children:
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