Maria Christina of Naples and Sicily (1779–1849)
Maria Christina Amelie of Naples-Sicily (born January 17, 1779 in Caserta , † March 12, 1849 in Savona ) was Queen of Sardinia-Piedmont.
Life
She was born in Caserta on January 17, 1779, the sixth of 18 children as the daughter of King Ferdinand IV of Naples and his wife Maria Karolina of Austria , a daughter of Empress Maria Theresa . She had a younger twin sister who died of smallpox in 1783 at the age of four.
On April 6, 1807, she was married to Karl Felix , later King of Sardinia-Piedmont, in Turin. The couple had no children. After the death of her husband, she lived as a queen widow in Savona, Liguria, where she died in 1849. She was a great patroness of the Hautecombe Abbey in Savoy, the family burial place of the House of Savoy. After the death of her husband, she continued the restoration work on the abbey, which had been badly affected by the revolution. She was buried there next to her husband.
predecessor | Office | Successor |
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Maria Theresa of Austria-Este | Queen of Sardinia-Piedmont 1821–1831 |
Maria Theresa of Austria-Tuscany |
ancestors
Philip V King of Spain (1683–1746) | |||||||||||||
Charles III King of Spain (1716–1788) | |||||||||||||
Elisabetta Farnese (1692–1766) | |||||||||||||
Ferdinand I of Naples and Sicily (1751–1825) | |||||||||||||
Friedrich August II. Elector of Saxony , as August III King of Poland (1696–1763) | |||||||||||||
Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724–1760) | |||||||||||||
Maria Josepha Archduchess of Austria (1699–1757) | |||||||||||||
Maria Christina of Naples and Sicily | |||||||||||||
Leopold of Lorraine (1679–1729) | |||||||||||||
Emperor Franz I Stephan (1708–1765) | |||||||||||||
Elisabeth Charlotte de Bourbon-Orléans (1676–1744) | |||||||||||||
Maria Karolina of Austria Archduchess (1752–1814) | |||||||||||||
Emperor Charles VI. (1685-1740) | |||||||||||||
Empress Maria Theresa (1717–1780) | |||||||||||||
Elisabeth Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1691–1750) | |||||||||||||
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Maria Christina of Naples and Sicily |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maria Christina Amelie of Naples-Sicily |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Queen of Sardinia-Piedmont |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1779 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Caserta |
DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1849 |
Place of death | Savona |