Maria Teresa of Naples and Sicily

Maria Theresa of Naples
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1790)
Holy Roman Empress, Queen of the Romans
Tenure	1 March 1792 – 6 August 1806
Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria; Queen of Jerusalem etc. Archduchess of Austria; Grand Duchess of Tuscany and of Cracow; Duchess of Lorraine, of Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and the Bukovina; Grand Princess of Transsylvania, Margravine of Moravia Duchess of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, of Auschwitz and Zator, of Teschen, Friuli, Ragusa and Zara; Princely Countess of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca; Princess of Trent and Brixen; Margravine of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria; Countess of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenberg etc.; Lady of Trieste, of Cattaro and on the Windic March; etc., etc.
Tenure	11 August 1804 – 2 March 1807
Born	(1772-06-06)6 June 1772 Royal Palace, Naples
Died	13 April 1807(1807-04-13) (aged 34) Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria
Burial	Imperial Crypt, Vienna, Austria
Spouse	Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Issue Detail	Marie Louise, Empress of the French Ferdinand I of Austria Maria Leopoldina, Empress of Brazil and Queen of Portugal Clementina, Princess of Salerno Archduke Joseph Franz Leopold Marie Caroline, Crown Princess of Saxony Archduke Franz Karl Archduchess Maria Anna Archduke Johann Nepomuk
Full name Maria Teresa Carolina Giuseppina di Borbone
House	Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Father	Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
Mother	Maria Carolina of Austria
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (6 June 1772 – 13 April 1807) was the last Holy Roman Empress and the first Empress of Austria by marriage to Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor. She was the eldest daughter of Ferdinand IV & III of Naples and Sicily (later Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies) (1751–1825) and his wife, Marie Caroline of Austria (1752–1814).

Born Maria Teresa, and named after her maternal grandmother Maria Theresa of Austria, she was the eldest of 17 children born to her parents, the King and Queen of Naples and Sicily. Her father was a son of Charles III of Spain and Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony. Through her mother she was a niece of Marie Antoinette; through her father she was a niece of Maria Luisa of Spain and Charles IV of Spain. She was her mother's favourite child from birth until she left the Neapolitan court to marry.

Her brothers included the future King Francis and Leopold, Prince of Salerno. Another, Carlo, Duke of Calabria died in 1778 aged 3 of smallpox.

Her sisters included Grand Duchess of Tuscany. Her younger sister Princess Maria Cristina, was the wife of the future Charles Felix of Sardinia as Queen of Sardinia. Maria Cristina's twin Princess Maria Cristina Amelia died in 1783 of smallpox. Another sister was the Queen of the French as the wife of Louis Philippe I and the youngest was the future Princess of Asturias.