Leopold, Prince of Salerno
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Prince of Salerno | |||||
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Born | Naples, Kingdom of Naples | 2 July 1790||||
Died | 10 March 1851 Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | (aged 60)||||
Burial | Basilica of Santa Chiara, Naples | ||||
Spouse | Archduchess Clementina of Austria | ||||
Issue | Maria Carolina, Duchess of Aumale | ||||
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House | Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ||||
Father | Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies | ||||
Mother | Maria Carolina of Austria | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno (2 July 1790, Naples, Kingdom of Naples – 10 March 1851, Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies)[1] was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.[1]
Biography[]
Born Leopoldo of Naples and Sicily, he was the sixth son of Ferdinand IV of Naples[2] and wife Maria Carolina of Austria, daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria.[1]
Marriage and issue[]
Leopold married his niece Archduchess Clementina of Austria, third surviving daughter of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (later Francis I of Austria) and his sister Maria Teresa of Naples and Sicily on 28 July 1816 at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.[1] Leopold and Clementina had four children but only their daughter Princess Maria Carolina survived infancy. Prince Louis and two infants died within their first year.
- Stillborn daughter (16 September 1819).
- Princess Maria Carolina (26 April 1822 – 6 December 1869); married, on 25 November 1844, Prince Henri, Duke of Aumale; had issue.
- Prince Lodovico Carlos (19 July - 7 August 1824).
- Stillborn daughter (5 February 1829).
Leopold also had an extramarital affair with the Viennese dancer Fanny Elssler, which led to the birth of an illegitimate son, Franz, born in 1827 and died by suicide in 1873.
Honours[]
- Knight of the Order of Saint Januarius (1790)
- Knight Grand Cross of Justice of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (1797)
- Knight of the Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece (1802)
- Knight of the Orders of the King of France (1810)
- Knight of the Order of Saint Ferdinand and of Merit
- Knight of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III
- Knight of the Order of Saint George and Reunion
- Knight of the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation (1822)
Ancestry[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Darryl Lundy (12 March 2005). "Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele di Borbone, Principe di Borbone delle Due Sicilie". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 3 October 2008.
- ^ Later King of the Two Sicilies
- ^ 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. pp. 1, 9.
External links[]
Media related to Leopold, Prince of Salerno at Wikimedia Commons
- 1790 births
- 1851 deaths
- 18th-century Neapolitan people
- Princes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
- House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
- Neapolitan princes
- Sicilian princes
- Princes of Salerno
- Italian Roman Catholics
- Knights of the Golden Fleece of Spain
- Burials at the Basilica of Santa Chiara
- People of the Napoleonic Wars
- 19th-century Neapolitan people