Maria Christina of Naples and Sicily (1779–1849)

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Princess Maria Christina of Naples-Sicily, later Queen of Sardinia-Piedmont
Princess Maria Christina of Naples-Sicily
Burial place of Karl Felix and Maria Christina in Hautecombe

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
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)