Princess Maria Theresa of Savoy
| Marie Thérèse of Savoy | |||||
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| Countess of Artois | |||||
Marie Thérèse by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty (1740–1786), with a bust of her husband and holding a portrait of her mother
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| Born |
31 January 1756 Royal Palace, Turin, Savoy |
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| Died | 2 June 1805 (aged 49) Graz, Austria |
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| Burial | Graz, Austria | ||||
| Spouse | Charles Philippe, Count of Artois | ||||
| Issue Detail |
Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême Sophie, Mademoiselle Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry |
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| House |
House of Savoy (by birth) House of Bourbon (by marriage) |
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| Father | Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy | ||||
| Mother | Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
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| Maria Teresa di Savoia |
Maria Theresa of Savoy (Maria Teresa; 31 January 1756 – 2 June 1805) was a princess of Savoy by birth and the wife of Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, grandson of Louis XV and younger brother of Louis XVI. Some nineteen years after her death, her husband assumed the throne of France as King Charles X.
Princess Maria Theresa of Savoy was born at the Royal Palace in Turin during the reign of her grandfather Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia. The daughter of the heir apparent and his wife, Victor Amadeus and Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, she was the couple's third daughter and fifth child of twelve children. She was raised with her sister Princess Maria Giuseppina who was three years her senior and whom she would join later as a member of the royal family of France.
Following a series of dynastic alliances, Maria Theresa was betrothed to the Count of Artois, the youngest grandson of the reigning Louis XV of France. Artois had previously been intended to marry Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon, the daughter of the Prince of Condé. However the union never took place as her rank was much lower than Artois who, as a male line descendant of a French monarch, was a grandson of France. Maria Theresa married the count in a proxy ceremony at the Palazzina di caccia di Stupinigi before her official marriage, which took place at the Palace of Versailles on 16 November 1773.
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