Luisa of the Two Sicilies
Luisa of the Two Sicilies (Naples, July 27 1773 - Vienna, September 19 1802) was a Princess of the Two Sicilies and wife of the Grand Duke of Tuscany .
Born in Naples, her father was Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, son of Charles III of Spain and her mother was Marie Caroline of Austria, daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria.
On August 15 1790, she married her double first cousin,
Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who ruled in Tuscany until
1801, when in the Treaty of Aranjuez, he was forced by Napoleon to make way for the
Kingdom of Etruria. The couple went into exile and Ferdinand was compensated by being
given the secularized lands of the Archbishop of Salzburg as Grand-Duke of
Salzburg.
Luisa died in childbirth the next year in Vienna.
The couple had six children :
- Caroline Ferdinanda Theresa (1793-1802)
- Francis Leopold (1794-1800)
- Leopold II (1797-1870), Grand Duke of Tuscany between 1824-1859
- Maria Louisa Josepha (1799-1857)
- Maria Theresa (1801-1855), married in 1817 King Charles Albert of Sardinia.
- ? (1802)
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