Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma
Maria Luisa Carlota, Princess of Bourbon-Parma (born October 2, 1802 in Barcelona , † March 18, 1857 in Rome ) was Princess of Saxony by marriage .
Life
Maria Luisa Carlota was the only daughter of the Infanta Maria Luisa Josefina Antonieta Vicenta of Spain , who held the title of Queen of Etruria from 1801 to 1803 , and her husband Ludwig (1773-1803). Her brother was Charles II. Ludwig of Parma , who later became Duke of Lucca .
She was shortly before reaching during a sea voyage from Italy to Spain, which her parents had undertaken because of their invitation to the double wedding of their uncle Ferdinand with Maria Antonia of Naples-Sicily and their aunt Maria Isabel with Francesco of Bourbon , Crown Prince of Naples-Sicily born on the coast near Barcelona. Her mother's delivery was difficult, and doctors feared that the mother and daughter would not survive.
Like her mother, Maria Luisa Carlota was named after her mother's sister who died at the age of four. Her father died in 1803, after which her mother took over the reign of Etruria. When French troops marched into Etruria at the end of 1807, she and her brother were brought to Spain by her mother at the beginning of the following year. In May 1808 Napoleon called all members of the Spanish ruling family to France and proclaimed his brother Joseph to be the new King of Spain. Maria Luisa Carlota lived with her brother and mother in exile in France, first in Fontainebleau , then in Compiègne and finally in Nice . After her mother's failed attempt to escape to England, she was held prisoner with her from August 1811 to January 1814 in the Roman monastery of Santi Domenico e Sisto . After Napoleon's fall in 1814, her mother was given the Duchy of Lucca .
When Maria Luisa Carlota was 14 years old, at the request of her maternal grandparents, the Spanish ex- king Charles IV and his wife Maria Luise of Bourbon-Parma , as well as her uncle, King Ferdinand VII, she should be with her youngest, 22-year-old Uncle Francisco de Paula are married, but her mother vigorously opposed this plan, which did not materialize.
Almost two weeks after her 23rd birthday, Maria Luisa Carlota married the 66-year-old Prince Maximilian of Saxony (1759-1838), (the widower of her aunt), on October 15, 1825 in Lucca by procuration and on November 7, 1825 in Dresden in person Karoline, her father's sister), who she married as the second wife. The marriage remained childless and Maria Luisa Carlota became a widow in 1838. She lived mostly in Vienna and was considered very eccentric. In her second marriage, she married Count Francesco Rossi (1796-1854) on July 22, 1849 . After his death, she went on February 19, 1855, her third and last marriage to Count Giovanni Vimercati (1788–1861), with whom she spent her early life in Rome. She died in 1857 at the age of 54. Her estate is in the Saxon Main State Archives in Dresden (archive no. 12551).
Honors
Louisenstrasse in Dresden ( Antonstadt / Äußere Neustadt ) is named after Maria Luisa Carlota .
Web links
- Maria Luisa Carlota di Borbone, Principessa di Parma on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 11, 2016.
Remarks
- ↑ 12551 - Prince's estate Luise, Princess of Saxony. (No longer available online.) Main State Archive Dresden , formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 23, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bourbon-Parma, Maria Luisa of |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bourbon-Parma, Maria Luisa Carlota Princess of (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Daughter of Maria Luisa of Spain (1782-1824) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1857 |
| Place of death | Rome |