Maria Isabelle of Naples and Sicily

Princess Maria Isabelle
Princess of Naples and Sicily
Maria Isabelle of Naples and Sicily.
Born (1793-12-02)2 December 1793
Naples, Kingdom of Naples
Died (1801-04-23)23 April 1801
(aged 7 years, 4 months)
Burial Basilica of Santa Chiara, Naples
Full name
Maria Isabelle di Borbone
House Bourbons of Naples
Father Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
Mother Maria Carolina of Austria
Religion Roman Catholicism

Maria Isabelle of Naples and Sicily (2 December 1793 – 23 April 1801) was a member of the Bourbons of Naples and Sicily (itself descended from the Bourbons of France). She was styled Princess of Naples and Sicily.

Biography

Maria Isabelle was born in Naples, and she was named after her paternal aunt Maria Isabel Ana, who died at the age of six in 1749. Her father was Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, the third son and ninth child of King Charles III of Spain and Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony. Her mother was Maria Carolina, Archduchess of Austria, the tenth daughter and thirteenth child of the famous Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. Through her mother she was a niece of Marie Antoinette; through her father she was a niece of Maria Luisa of Spain and Charles IV of Spain. She was then styled Princess of Naples and Sicily.[1]

Her brothers included the future King Francis and Leopold, Prince of Salerno. Another, Carlo, Duke of Calabria died in 1778 aged 3 of smallpox. Her older sisters included Princess Maria Theresa, namesake of her grandmother and Princess Luisa, future Grand Duchess of Tuscany. Her younger sister Princess Maria Cristina, was the wife of the future Charles Felix of Sardinia as Queen of Sardinia. Maria Cristina's twin Princess Maria Cristina Amelia died in 1783 of smallpox. Another sister was the Queen of the French as the wife of Louis Philippe I and the youngest was the future Princess of Asturias.

Maria Isabelle died on 23 April 1801, at the age of seven. She was buried at the Church of Santa Chiara in Naples.

Ancestry

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Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

  • 2 December 1793 – 23 April 1801 Her Royal Highness Princess Maria Isabelle of Naples and Sicily, Infanta of Spain.

References

  1. ↑ van de Pas, Leo. "Maria Isabella, Princess of Naples and Sicily". Genealogics.org.

Bibliography

  • Richard Reifenscheid, Die Habsburger in Lebensbildern, Piper 2006
  • John A. Rice, Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792–1807, Cambridge 2003
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