Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy
| Marie Joséphine of Savoy | |||||
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| Countess of Provence | |||||
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Marie Joséphine of Savoy
(by Alexander Kucharsky, c. 1790) |
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| Born |
2 September 1753 Royal Palace of Turin, Turin |
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| Died | 13 November 1810 (aged 57) Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire, England |
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| Burial | Cagliari Cathedral, Cagliari | ||||
| Spouse | Louis XVIII of France | ||||
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| House | Savoy | ||||
| Father | Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia | ||||
| Mother | Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
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| Italian: Maria Giuseppina Luigia |
Marie Joséphine Louise of Savoy (Italian: Maria Giuseppina Luigia; 2 September 1753 – 13 November 1810) was the wife of the future King Louis XVIII of France. She was a princess of Savoy by birth, became Countess of Provence upon her marriage in 1771, and then titular Queen of France when her husband's nephew, the titular King Louis XVII of France, died in 1795.
Marie Joséphine was born at the Royal Palace of Turin on 2 September 1753 as the third child and second daughter of Prince Victor Amadeus of Savoy and his wife, the Infanta Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain. At the time of her birth, her paternal grandfather Charles Emmanuel III was the King of Sardinia, thus her parents were styled Duke and Duchess of Savoy.
Her brothers included the last three kings of Sardinia from the senior line of the House of Savoy: the future Charles Emmanuel IV, Victor Emmanuel I, and Charles Felix. One of her younger sisters, Maria Teresa, also married into the royal family of France, in her case to the future King Charles X of France. Her youngest sister Maria Carolina married the future King Anthony of Saxony, although she died in 1782, decades before he assumed the throne.
Marie Joséphine was engaged to the French Prince Louis Stanislas, who was known as the Count of Provence. Her husband later became King Louis XVIII of France.
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