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Maria Clotilde of Naples and Sicily

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Princess Maria Clotilde
Coat of arms of Maria Clotilde of Naples
Born(1786-02-18)18 February 1786
Naples
Died(1792-09-10)10 September 1792
(aged 6 years, 6 months)
Naples
BurialSeptember 1792
Santa Chiara
Names
Maria Clotilde Teresa Amelia Antonietta Giovanna Battista Anna Gaetana Polcheria
HouseBourbon-Two Sicilies
FatherFerdinand I of the Two Sicilies
MotherMaria Carolina of Austria

Princess Maria Clotilde of Naples and Sicily(Italian:Maria Clotilda Teresa Amelia Antonietta Giovanna Battista Anna Gaetana Pulcheria;18 February 1786 – 10 September 1792) was a member of the House of Bourbon in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. She was styledPrincess of Naples and Sicily.

Early life

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Maria Clotilde was born inNaples.Her father wasFerdinand, Duke of Calabria,the third son and ninth child ofCharles III of SpainandMaria Amalia of Saxony.Her mother wasthe Archduchess of Austria,the tenth daughter and thirteenth child of the famousMaria Theresa of Austriaand her husband,Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor.She was baptised during the first year of her life. Her full name wasMaria Clotilda Teresa Amelia Antonietta Giovanna Battista Anna Gaetana Pulcheria.She was born and died while her father was still styledDuke of Calabria.She was then styledPrincess of Naples and Sicily.Her older siblings includedMaria Theresa,namesake of hergrandmother,born in 1772;Maria Luisa,born in 1773 andCarlo, Duke of Calabria,born in 1775, who also died in childhood;Francis,born in 1777 andMaria Amalia,born in 1782.

Death

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Both Maria Clotilde and her sisterMaria Henrietta of Naples and Sicilywere 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 caughtsmallpoxfrom her brothers,Prince Gennaro of Naples and SicilyandCarlo Gennaro.She then passed it on to her sister Maria Henrietta, but both recovered yet they remained very very frail and thesmallpoxreturned 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

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References

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  1. ^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.
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