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Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria

Maria Clementina of Austria
Hereditary Princess of Naples
Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, 1796, Duchess of Calabria.jpg
Maria Clementina, 1796, Joseph Hickel
Born (1777-04-24)24 April 1777
Villa del Poggio Imperiale, Tuscany
Died 15 November 1801(1801-11-15) (aged 24)
Naples
Burial Basilica of Santa Chiara, Naples
Spouse Francis, Hereditary Prince of Naples
Issue Carolina, Duchess of Berry
Full name
Marie Klementine Josephe Johanna Fidelis
House Habsburg-Lorraine
Father Leopold I, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Mother Maria Luisa of Spain
Religion Roman Catholic
Full name
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


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