Doña María Manuela Enriqueta Kirkpatrick de Closeburn y Grivegnée, Countess of Montijo (24 February 1794 – 22 November 1879), was a Spanish noble and courtier, the mother of Eugénie, Empress of the French.

She was born in Málaga, Spain, the daughter of an expatriate Scotsman, William Kirkpatrick, a wine merchant and consul of the United States of America, and his Liège-born wife, Marie Françoise de Grevignée, whose sister Catherine married the French diplomat Mathieu de Lesseps.

[2] They had two daughters, and a son, Francisco "Paco", who died young, including:[3] In the 1830s, Manuela and the girls moved to Paris for their education.

Manuela also continued her friendship with Prosper Mérimée, whom she had met in Spain and who took great interest in the education of the girls.

[5] Manuela lived long enough to see the rise and fall of the Second French Empire, and died in Carabanchel several months after the death of her grandson Napoléon, Prince Imperial.