Maria Clementina of Austria | |||||
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Hereditary Princess of Naples | |||||
Maria Clementina, 1796, Joseph Hickel
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Born |
Villa del Poggio Imperiale, Tuscany |
24 April 1777||||
Died | 15 November 1801 Naples |
(aged 24)||||
Burial | Basilica of Santa Chiara, Naples | ||||
Spouse | Francis, Hereditary Prince of Naples | ||||
Issue | Carolina, Duchess of Berry | ||||
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House | Habsburg-Lorraine | ||||
Father | Leopold I, Grand Duke of Tuscany | ||||
Mother | Maria Luisa of Spain | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholic |
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Marie Klementine Josephe Johanna Fidelis |
Maria Clementina of Austria (24 April 1777 – 15 November 1801) was an Austrian archduchess and the tenth child and third daughter of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria Luisa of Spain. In 1797 she married her first cousin Hereditary Prince Francis of Naples, heir of Naples and Sicily. She was modest, well educated and kind, becoming popular in her adoptive country. Afflicted with frail health, she died of tuberculosis, age twenty four. Her only surviving child was the famous duchesse de Berry.
Archduchess Maria Clementina was born at the Villa del Poggio Imperiale, Poggio Imperiale then located in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, which had been ruled by her father Leopold I, Grand Duke of Tuscany (later Holy Roman Emperor) since 1765. She was named after Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony, her mother's uncle and brother of Maria Amalia of Saxony, Maria Clementina's maternal grandmother.
Her father was a son of Empress Maria Theresa and her mother a daughter of Charles III of Spain and Maria Amalia of Saxony. Maria Clementina was her parents' tenth child among sixteen children. She was raised in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany where her father ruled and the family lived until 1790 when, at the death of Maria Clementina's paternal uncle, Joseph II, her father became Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and the family moved to the court of Vienna