Princess Maria Carolina of the Two Sicilies (born 1820)

Countess of Montemolin
Princess Maria Carolina
Countess of Montemolin
Born(1820-11-29)29 November 1820
Naples, Two Sicilies
Died14 January 1861(1861-01-14) (aged 40)
Trieste, Austrian Empire
Burial
Cathedral of St. Just, Trieste
SpouseInfante Carlos, Count of Montemolin
(m. 1850; died 1861)
Names
Italian: Maria Carolina Ferdinanda
HouseBourbon-Two Sicilies
FatherFrancis I of the Two Sicilies
MotherMaria Isabella of Spain

Princess Maria Carolina Ferdinanda of Bourbon-Two Sicilies[citation needed] (29 November 1820 – 14 January 1861) was a princess of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and an infanta of Spain through her marriage to Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin, Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain under the name Carlos VI. Maria Carolina was a daughter of Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his second wife Maria Isabella of Spain.[citation needed]

Marriage and later life

Maria Carolina married Infante Carlos of Spain, Count of Montemolin, eldest son of Infante Carlos, Count of Molina and his wife Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal, on 10 July 1850 at Caserta Palace in Caserta, Two Sicilies.[citation needed]

Maria Carolina and her husband died of typhus within a few hours of one another on 14 January 1861 in Trieste. Maria Carolina had contracted the disease from nursing her husband. The couple died without issue.[citation needed] Maria Carolina and Carlos were buried at the Cathedral of St. Just in Trieste.

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Francis I. of the Two Sicilies" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ a b Navarrete Martínez, Esperanza Navarrete Martínez. "María de la O Isabel de Borbón". Diccionario biográfico España (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia.
  3. ^ a b c d 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.
  4. ^ a b Genealogie ascendate, p. 1
  5. ^ a b Genealogie ascendate, p. 96

External links

  • Floriano Pietrocola, Maria Carolina (1850), Museo del Prado, Madrid
  • Reyes Catálogo de la exposición temporal del Museo del Carlismo "Reyes sin trono. Los pretendientes carlistas de 1833 a 1936" (3 abril – 9 diciemb...), p. 41
Princess Maria Carolina of the Two Sicilies (born 1820)
Cadet branch of the House of Bourbon
Born: 29 November 1820  Died: 14 January 1861
Preceded by — TITULAR —
Queen consort of Spain
10 March 1855 - 13 January 1861
Succeeded by
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Generations are numbered by descent from Ferdinand I
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Infantas of Spain by marriage
Generations start with the daughters-in-law of Charles I of Spain
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3rd generation
  • Elisabeth of France
4th generation
  • None
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10th generation
  • Princess Maria Carolina of the Two Sicilies
  • Isabella II of Spain*
  • Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain*
  • Princess Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
  • Princess Maria Teresa of Savoy
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Since 1987, the spouses of infantes are no longer infantas.
  • *also an Infanta in her own right