Carlo, Duke of Calabria
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Duke of Calabria | |||||
Born | Caserta Palace, Kingdom of Naples | 4 January 1775||||
Died | 17 December 1778 Caserta Palace, Kingdom of Naples | (aged 3)||||
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House | Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ||||
Father | Ferdinand IV of Naples | ||||
Mother | Maria Carolina of Austria | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Carlo of Naples and Sicily (Italian: Carlo Tito Francesco Giuseppe; 4 January 1775 – 17 December 1778) was Duke of Calabria as heir to Naples and Sicily.
Biography
Born at the Caserta Palace near Naples, he was known as the Duke of Calabria at birth as the heir apparent to his father's throne. His mother was a daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and thus sister of Marie Antoinette.
A member of the House of Bourbon, he was a prince of Naples and Sicily by birth. He was the hereditary prince of Naples. His birth allowed his mother to have a place in the Council of State, pursuant to his parents' marriage contract.
Carlo died of smallpox[1] aged 3. Six of his younger siblings would die of smallpox also: Princess Maria Anna (in 1780), Prince Giuseppe (in 1783), Prince Gennaro (in 1789), , Prince Carlo Gennaro (also in 1789), Princess Maria Clotilde (in 1792) and Princess Maria Enricheta (also in 1792).
He was buried at the Church of Santa Chiara in Naples.
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References
- ^ Dyson. C.C, The Life of Marie Amelie Last Queen of the French, 1782-1866, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, p. 33.
- ^ 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.
- 1775 births
- 1778 deaths
- People from Caserta
- House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
- Neapolitan princes
- Heirs apparent who never acceded
- Sicilian princes
- Deaths from smallpox
- Dukes of Calabria
- Burials at the Basilica of Santa Chiara
- Italian Roman Catholics
- Hereditary Princes of Naples
- 18th-century Roman Catholics
- Knights of the Golden Fleece of Spain