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Princess Caroline Ferdinande of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

 
 
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Berry, Caroline Ferdinande Louise, duchesse de (kärôlēn' fĕrdēnäNd lwēz, düshĕs' də bĕrē'), 1798-1870, wife of the French prince, Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry; daughter of Francis I of the Two Sicilies. She went into exile from France after the overthrow of King Charles X, her father-in-law. Returning secretly in 1832, she organized a small, unsuccessful uprising in an attempt to win the throne for Berry's posthumous son, Henri, later known as the comte de Chambord. For these activities she was imprisoned. However, when it became obvious that the duchesse was pregnant, she was forced to reveal her secret second marriage to an Italian count. This marriage alienated her royalist supporters, and the French government released her from prison.
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Princess Caroline Ferdinande of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Duchess of Berry
Duchess della Grazia
The Duchess of Berry, painted in 1828 by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun.
Spouse Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
Ettore Carlo Lucchesi-Palli, 8th Duke della Grazia
Issue
Princess Louise Isabelle
Prince Louis
Princess Louise Marie Thérèse
Prince Henri, Count of Chambord
Clementina Lucchesi-Palli
Francesca di Paola Lucchesi-Palli
Maria Isabella Lucchesi-Palli
Adinolfo Lucchesi-Palli, 9th Duke della Grazia
Full name
Italian: Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa
French: Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise
House House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
House of Bourbon
Father Francis I of the Two Sicilies
Mother Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria
Born 5 November 1798(1798-11-05)
Caserta Palace, Caserta, Italy
Died 17 April 1870 (aged 71)
Brünsee, Styria, Austria-Hungary
Burial Mureck Cemetery, Mureck
The Duchesse de Berry, painted in 1825 by Thomas Lawrence.

Princess Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa of Naples and Sicily[1] (born 5 November 1798 in Caserta, Kingdom of Naples; died 17 April 1870 in Brünsee, Styria, Austria-Hungary) was the daughter of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his first wife, Maria Clementina of Austria.

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Life

Caroline married King Louis XVIII of France's nephew, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry on 24 April 1816 in Naples, following negotiations with the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies by the French ambassador Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas, thus becoming the Duchesse de Berry. She became an important figure during the Bourbon Restoration after the assassination of her husband in 1820. Caroline's son, Henri, comte de Chambord, was named the "miracle child" because he was born after his father's death and continued the direct Bourbon line of King Louis XIV of France. (The Duke of Berry saw only one child born by Caroline, Louise). In 1824, King Louis XVIII died and was succeeded by Caroline's father-in-law, King Charles X.

In 1830, she was forced to flee France when Charles X was overthrown during the July Revolution. She lived in Bath and Regent Terrace, Edinburgh for a time[2]. In 1831 she returned to her family in Naples via the Netherlands, Prussia and Austria[2]. Later, however, with the help of Emmanuel Louis Marie de Guignard, vicomte de Saint Priest, she unsuccessfully attempted to restore the Legitimist Bourbon dynasty during the reign of the Orléanist monarch, King Louis Philippe of the French (1830–1848).

Her failed rebellion in the Vendée in 1832 was followed by her arrest and imprisonment in November, 1832. She was released in June, 1833 after giving birth to a daughter and revealing her secret marriage to an Italian nobleman, Ettore Carlo Lucchesi-Palli, 8th Duke della Grazia. In 1844, she and her husband purchased the beautiful palazzo Ca' Vendramin Calergi on the Grand Canal in Venice from the last member of the Vendramin family line. In the turmoil of the Risorgimento, she was forced to sell the palazzo to her grandson, Prince Henry, Count of Bardi, and many of its fine works of art were auctioned in Paris.[3]

She returned to Sicily, ignored by other members of the House of Bourbon, and died near Graz (Austria-Hungary) in 1870.

French novelist Alexandre Dumas, père wrote two stories about her and her plotting.

Issue

Children with Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry:[1]

Children with Ettore Carlo Lucchesi-Palli, 8th Duke della Grazia:[1]

  • Clementina Lucchesi-Palli (19 November 1835 – 22 March 1925)
  • Francesca di Paola Lucchesi-Palli (12 October 1836 – 10 May 1923)
  • Maria Isabella Lucchesi-Palli (18 March 1838 – 1 April 1873)
  • Adinolfo Lucchesi-Palli, 9th Duke della Grazia (10 March 1840 – 4 February 1911)

Ancestors

References

  1. ^ a b c Darryl Lundy (9 March 2007). "Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Louise di Borbone, Principessa delle Due Sicilie". thePeerage.com. http://thepeerage.com/p11377.htm#i113766. Retrieved 2008-10-03. 
  2. ^ a b Mackenzie-Stuart, A.J. A French King at Holyrood" John Donald Publishers Ltd., Edinburgh, (1995), ISBN 0 85976 413 3
  3. ^ Ca' Vendramin Calergi: La storia

Further reading

  • Cronin, Vincent. Four Women in Pursuit of an Ideal. London: Collins, 1965; also published as The Romantic Way. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.
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*NOTE: children born after 1816 (the union of Kingdoms) they were officially "HRH Prince/ess X of Naples and Sicily, Infante/a of Spain"; over time the style of Naples and Sicily wore off and Bourbon-Two-Sicilies or just the Two Sicilies prevailed;

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