Princess Maria Isabel Ana of Naples and Sicily

Princess Maria Isabel Ana of Naples and Sicily (30 April 1743 – 5 March 1749) was the third daughter of Charles VII of Naples and III of Sicily and his wife, Maria Amalia of Saxony, who later became King Charles III and Queen Maria Amalia of Spain. Princess Maria was the older sister of kings Charles IV of Spain and Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. She died before her father's accession to the Spanish throne, and thus never held the title of Infanta of Spain.

Princess Marie Isabel Ana
Princess of Naples and Sicily
Portrait by Giuseppe Bonito, c.1748
Born	30 April 1743 Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
Died	5 March 1749(1749-03-05) (aged 5) Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
Burial	1749 Santa Chiara, Naples
House	Bourbon
Father	Charles VII of Naples (later Charles III of Spain)
Mother	Maria Amalia of Saxony

Biography

Family

 

Maria (left) along with her cousin Princess Isabella of Parma in The Family of Philip V by Louis Michel van Loo in 1743.

Maria was the third child and daughter of King Charles VII of Naples and Sicily who had been reigning since 1735. Her father was the son of Philip V of Spain, and Elisabeth Farnese. Her mother was Maria Amalia of Saxony who was the daughter of Augustus III of Poland and of Maria Josepha of Austria.^[1]

Life and death

Maria was born in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples on 30 April 1743. As she was born before her father's accession to the Spanish throne, she never held the title of Infanta of Spain.^[2]

 

Portrait by Clemente Ruta, c. 1746

Her birth was met with little enthusiasm from the court of Naples and from her mother, Queen Maria Amalia, as she had give birth to two daughters twice before who had both died very early into their childhood. The birth of a son meant that the King could secure the succession to the thrones of Italy and to himself.^[2]

She received the name of her eldest sister who had died, on 2 November 1742. Maria died at the age of 5 in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples and was buried in Santa Chiara, Naples.^[2]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Princess Maria Isabel Ana of Naples and Sicily^[3]

8. Louis, Dauphin of France 4. Philip V of Spain 9. Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria 2. Charles III of Spain 10. Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma 5. Elisabeth Farnese 11. Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg 1. Princess Maria Isabel Ana of Naples and Sicily 12. Augustus II of Poland 6. Augustus III of Poland 13. Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth 3. Maria Amalia of Saxony 14. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 7. Maria Josepha of Austria 15. Wilhelmine Amalie of Brunswick

References

1. Ammon, Christoph Heinrich von (1768). Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans, reduite en 114 tables ... (in French). Aux Depens de L'Auteur, Se Vend Chez Etienne de Bourdeaux.
2. "María Isabella Anna de Borbón y Sajonia | Real Academia de la Historia". dbe.rah.es. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
3. 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. p. 9.