Infante Francisco Javier
Infante of Spain
Portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs (Prado Museum)
Born(1757-02-15)15 February 1757
Royal Palace of Caserta, Naples
Died10 April 1771(1771-04-10) (aged 14)
Royal Palace of Aranjuez, Spain
Burial
El Escorial, Spain
Names
Francisco Javier Antonio Pascual Bernardo Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Julián de Borbón
HouseBourbon
FatherCharles III of Spain
MotherMaria Amalia of Saxony

Infante Francisco Javier of Spain (15 February 1757 – 10 April 1771) was the youngest son of King Charles III of Spain and younger brother of King Charles IV of Spain and King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies.

Biography

Born in the Royal Palace of Caserta, he was baptized Francisco Javier Antonio Pascual Bernardo Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Julián of Naples and Sicily. His father was Charles VII, King of Naples and of Sicily since 1735. His mother was Maria Amalia of Saxony, daughter of Augustus III of Poland.

In 1759, on the death of his uncle King Ferdinand VI of Spain without children, his parents, his brothers Charles and Gabriel, and his sisters, Maria Luisa and Maria Josefa left for Spain where her father was crowned King Charles III of Spain.
Francisco Javier lost his mother one year later when he was three. He grew up at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, but died of smallpox on 10 April 1771 at the age of 14.
He was buried at the El Escorial Monastery.[1]


Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Real Academia de la Historia
  2. ^ 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.
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