Princess Maria Isabella of Naples and Sicily

Princess Maria Isabella of Naples and Sicily (2 December 1793 – 23 April 1801) was a member of the House of Bourbon. She was the youngest child and daughter of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and his wife, Maria Carolina of Austria.

Princess Maria Isabella
Portrait of Princess Maria Isabella
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
Names Maria Isabella di Borbone
House	Bourbons of Naples
Father	Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
Mother	Maria Carolina of Austria

Biography

Maria Isabella was born in Naples, and 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,^[1] the third son and ninth child of King Charles III of Spain and Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony. Her mother was Archduchess Maria Carolina 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, and also through her father she was a niece of Maria Luisa of Spain and Charles IV of Spain.

Her brothers included the future King Francis and Leopold, Prince of Salerno. Another brother, 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 older sister Princess Maria Cristina was the wife of the future Charles Felix of Sardinia as Queen of Sardinia. Another sister, 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

Ancestors of Princess Maria Isabella of Naples and Sicily^[2]

8. Philip V of Spain 4. Charles III of Spain 9. Elisabeth Farnese 2. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies 10. Augustus III of Poland 5. Maria Amalia of Saxony 11. Maria Josepha of Austria 1. Princess Maria Isabella of Naples and Sicily 12. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine 6. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 13. Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans 3. Maria Carolina of Austria 14. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 7. Maria Theresa of Austria 15. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick

References

1. He became the King of Naples and Sicily in 1759, and became the King of the Two Sicilies in 1816.
2. Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. pp. 1, 9.

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