Leopold
Prince of Salerno
Portrait by Louis Rene Letronne, 1816
Born(1790-07-02)2 July 1790
Naples, Kingdom of Naples
Died10 March 1851(1851-03-10) (aged 60)
Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Burial
Basilica of Santa Chiara, Naples
Spouse
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(m. 1816)​
IssueMaria Carolina, Duchess of Aumale
Names
Italian: Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele
HouseBourbon-Two Sicilies
FatherFerdinand I of the Two Sicilies
MotherMaria Carolina of Austria

Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno (2 July 1790 – 10 March 1851) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Archduchess Clementina of Austria in 1816, and became the Prince of Salerno.

Biography

Portrait miniature of Leopold as a child (by Peter Edward Stroehling, 1793–1794)

Born Leopoldo of Naples and Sicily, he was the sixth son of Ferdinand IV of Naples[1] and his wife Maria Carolina of Austria, daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria.

Marriage and issue

Leopold married his niece & double-first cousin once removed Archduchess Clementina of Austria, third surviving daughter of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (later Francis I of Austria) and his sister Maria Teresa of Naples and Sicily on 28 July 1816 at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. Leopold and Clementina had four children but only their daughter Princess Maria Carolina survived infancy. Prince Louis and two infants died within their first year.

Leopold also had an extramarital affair with the Viennese dancer Fanny Elssler, which led to the birth of an illegitimate son, Franz, born in 1827 and died by suicide in 1873.

Death

Leopold died at the age of sixty, on 10 March 1851 in Naples. His wife, Clementina, died thirty years later, at the age of eighty-three.

Honours

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Later King of the Two Sicilies
  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. pp. 1, 9.

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