Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (Maria Antonietta Giuseppina Leopoldina; 16 March 1851 – 12 September 1938) was a Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies by birth and by her marriage to Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, claimant to the defunct throne of the Two Sicilies.
Family
Maria Antonietta was the eldest daughter of Prince Francis, Count of Trapani (son of Francis I of the Two Sicilies) and his wife (and niece) Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Princess of Tuscany. She was an elder sister of Maria Carolina, Countess Andrzej Zamoyski.
Marriage and issue
Maria Antonietta married her first cousin Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, son of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and his wife Maria Theresa of Austria, on 8 June 1868 in Rome. Antonietta and Alfonso had twelve children:
- Prince Ferdinand Pius of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria (25 July 1869 – 17 January 1960)
- Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (10 November 1870 – 11 November 1949)
- Prince Francesco di Paola of the Two Sicilies (14 July 1873 – 26 June 1876)
- Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (30 October 1874 – 28 November 1947)
- Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (10 April 1877 – 4 October 1947)
- Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (12 August 1878 – 20 June 1973)
- Princess Maria Giuseppina of the Two Sicilies (25 February 1880 – 22 July 1971)
- Prince Gennaro of the Two Sicilies (24 January 1882 – 11 April 1944)
- Prince Filippo of the Two Sicilies (10 December 1885 – 9 March 1949)
- Prince Francesco d'Assisi of the Two Sicilies (13 January 1888 – 26 March 1914)
- Prince Gabriele of the Two Sicilies (1 January 1897 – 22 October 1975)
Honours
- Spain: 697th Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa - .
- Austria-Hungary: Dame of the Order of the Starry Cross - .[1]
Ancestry
References
- 1.Monarchy, Austro-Hungarian (1911). Handbuch des allerhöchsten Hofes und des Hofstaates seiner K. und K. Apostolischen Majestät ... (in German). K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. p. 407.