Princess Maria Isabel Ana of Naples and Sicily

Princess Marie Isabel Ana
Portrait by Giuseppe Bonito, c.1748
Born30 April 1743
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
Died5 March 1749(1749-03-05) (aged 5)
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
Burial1749
HouseBourbon
FatherCharles VII of Naples
(later Charles III of Spain)
MotherMaria Amalia of Saxony

Princess Maria Isabel Ana of Naples and Sicily (30 April 1743 – 5 March 1749) was the third daughter of Charles VII of Naples and III of Sicily and his wife, Maria Amalia of Saxony, who later became King Charles III and Queen Maria Amalia of Spain. Princess Maria was the older sister of kings Charles IV of Spain and Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. She died before her father's accession to the Spanish throne, and thus never held the title of Infanta of Spain.

Biography

Family

Maria (left) along with her cousin Princess Isabella of Parma in The Family of Philip V by Louis Michel van Loo in 1743.

Maria was the third child and daughter of King Charles VII of Naples and Sicily who had been reigning since 1735. Her father was the son of Philip V of Spain, and Elisabeth Farnese. Her mother was Maria Amalia of Saxony who was the daughter of Augustus III of Poland and of Maria Josepha of Austria.[1]

Life and death

Maria was born in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples on 30 April 1743. As she was born before her father's accession to the Spanish throne, she never held the title of Infanta of Spain.[2]

Portrait by Clemente Ruta, c. 1746

Her birth was met with little enthusiasm from the court of Naples and from her mother, Queen Maria Amalia, as she had give birth to two daughters twice before who had both died very early into their childhood. The birth of a son meant that the King could secure the succession to the thrones of Italy and to himself.[2]

She received the name of her eldest sister who had died, on 2 November 1742. Maria died at the age of 5 in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples and was buried in Santa Chiara, Naples.[2]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Ammon, Christoph Heinrich von (1768). Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans, reduite en 114 tables ... (in French). Aux Depens de L'Auteur, Se Vend Chez Etienne de Bourdeaux.
  2. ^ a b c "María Isabella Anna de Borbón y Sajonia | Real Academia de la Historia". dbe.rah.es. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  3. ^ 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. p. 9.