Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily

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Luisa of Naples and Sicily
Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Spouse	Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Issue
Archduchess Caroline Ferdinanda Theresa Archduke Francis Leopold Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany Archduchess Maria Louisa Josepha Maria Theresa, Queen of Sardinia
House	House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies House of Habsburg-Lorraine
Father	Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
Mother	Maria Carolina of Austria
Born	27 July 1773(1773-07-27) Naples, Kingdom of Naples
Died	19 September 1802 (aged 29) Vienna, Holy Roman Empire

Maria Luisa of the Two Sicilies (Naples, 27 July 1773 - Vienna, 19 September 1802) was a Princess of the Two Sicilies and wife of the Grand Duke of Tuscany .

Born in Naples, her father was Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, son of Charles III of Spain and her mother was Marie Caroline of Austria, daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria.

On August 15, 1790, she married her double first cousin, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who ruled in Tuscany until 1801, when in the Treaty of Aranjuez, he was forced by Napoleon to make way for the Kingdom of Etruria. The couple went into exile and Ferdinand was compensated by being given the secularized lands of the Archbishop of Salzburg as Grand-Duke of Salzburg.
Maria Luisa died in childbirth the next year in Vienna and is buried in the Imperial Crypt with her stillborn son in her arms.

Their children were:

1. Archduchess Carolina Ferdinanda Teresa (Carolina Ferdinanda Theresia) (Florence, 2 August 1793 - Vienna, 5 January 1802)
2. Archduke Francesco Leopoldo (Franz Leopold) (Florence, 15 December 1794 - Vienna, 18 March 1800)
3. Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1797 - 1870), Grand Duke of Tuscany between 1824-1859
4. Archduchess Maria Luisa Giuseppa Cristina Rosa (Florence, 30 August 1799 - Florence, 15 June 1857)
5. Archduchess Maria Teresa (1801 - 1855). Married Charles Albert of Sardinia.
6. Archduke unnamed (1802 - 1802), stillborn

[edit] Ancestry

v • d • e Ancestors of Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily

16. Louis, Dauphin of France               8. Philip V of Spain                       17. Duchess Maria Anna of Bavaria               4. Charles III of Spain                             18. Odoardo II Farnese               9. Elisabeth of Parma                       19. Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg               2. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies                                   20. Augustus II of Poland               10. Augustus III of Poland                       21. Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth               5. Maria Amalia of Saxony                             22. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor               11. Maria Josepha of Austria                       23. Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick               1. Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily                                         24. Charles V, Duke of Lorraine               12. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine                       25. Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria               6. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor                             26. Philippe I, Duke of Orléans               13. Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans                       27. Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate               3. Maria Carolina of Austria                                   28. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor               14. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor                       29. Eleonor Magdalene of the Palatinate               7. Maria Theresa of Austria                             30. Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg               15. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel                       31. Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen

[edit] External links

• Royal House of Two-Sicilies
• Grand-Ducal House of Tuscany