Maria Clotilde of Naples and Sicily

Maria Clotide
Princess of Naples and Sicily
Born	(1786-02-18)18 February 1786 Naples
Died	10 September 1792(1792-09-10) (aged ) Naples
Burial	September 1792 Santa Chiara, Naples
Full name Maria Clotilde Teresa Amelia Antonietta Giovanna Battista Anna Gaetana Polcheria
House	House of Bourbon-Two Siclies
Father	Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
Mother	Maria Carolina of Austria
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Maria Clotilde (Italian: Maria Clotilda Teresa Amelia Antonietta Giovanna Battista Anna Gaetana Pulcheriacode: it is deprecated ) was a member of the French Royal Family (branched out to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies). She was styled Princess of Naples and Sicily.

Early Life

Maria Clotilde was born in Naples. Her father was Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, the third son and ninth child of Charles III of Spain and Maria Amalia of Saxony. Her mother was the Archduchess of Austria, the tenth daughter and thirteenth child of the famous Maria Theresa of Austria and her husband, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She was baptised during the first year of her life. Her full name was Maria Clotilda Teresa Amelia Antonietta Giovanna Battista Anna Gaetana Pulcheria. She was born and died while her father was still styled Duke of Calabria. She was then styled Princess of Naples and Sicily. Her older sibling included Maria Theresa, namesake of her grandmother, born in 1772; Maria Luisa, born in 1773 and Carlo, Duke of Calabria, born in 1775, who also died in childhood; Francis, born in 1777 and Maria Amalia, born in 1782.

Death

Both Maria Clotilde and her sister Maria Henrietta of Naples and Sicily were very sensible children with a very frail health. In the case of Maria Clotilde, this was the result of a cold in 1786, when the princess was just a few days old. In 1789, Maria Clotide caught smallpox from her brothers, Prince Gennaro of Naples and Sicily and Carlo Gennaro. She then passed it on to her sister Maria Henrietta, but both recovered yet they remained very very frail and the smallpox returned to Maria Clotide in September 1792, who yet again passed it on to her sister, the two dying within ten days of each other.

Ancestry

Family of Maria Clotilde of Naples and Sicily

16. Louis, Dauphin of France               8. Philip V of Spain                       17. Duchess Maria Anna of Bavaria               4. Charles III of Spain                             18. Odoardo II Farnese               9. Elisabeth of Parma                       19. Dorothea Sophie of the Palatinate-Neuburg               2. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies                                   20. Augustus II of Poland Elector of Saxony               10. Augustus III of Poland Elector of Saxony                       21. Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth               5. Maria Amalia of Saxony                             22. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor               11. Maria Josepha of Austria                       23. Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg               1. Maria Clotilde of Naples and Sicily                                         24. Charles V, Duke of Lorraine               12. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine                       25. Eleonora Maria of Austria               6. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor Francis III Stephen, Duke of Lorraine                             26. Philippe I, Duke of Orléans               13. Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans                       27. Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate               3. Maria Carolina of Austria                                   28. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor               14. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor                       29. Eleonor Magdalene of the Palatinate-Neuburg               7. Maria Theresa of Austria Queen of Hungary & Bohemia                             30. Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg               15. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel                       31. Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

• 18 February 1786 – 10 September 1792 Her Royal Highness Princess Maria Clotilde of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (Principessa Maria Clotilde di Borbone delle Due Sicilie)