Archduchess Clementina, Princess of Salerno
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Archduchess Maria Clementina Francesca Giuseppina (1798-1881) was a Princess of Salerno.
She was born as the third suviving daughter of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor and Teresa of the Two Sicilies.
She was a younger sister of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Ferdinand I of Austria and Maria Leopoldina of Austria. She was also an older sister of Marie Caroline of Austria, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria and Maria Anna of Austria.
Through her sister Marie Louise she was a sister-in-law of Napoleon I of France, through Maria Leopoldina a sister-in-law of Peter I of Brazil, through Marie Caroline a sister-in-law of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony.
She married on 28 July 1816 at Schönbrunn castle, Vienna, her maternal uncle prince Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele of the Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno (1790-1851), youngest son of king Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Carolina of Austria.
Three of their four children (including an only son, Lodovico) died in their first year.
They had a surviving daughter, princess Marie-Caroline-Auguste (1822-69), who on 25 November 1844 in Naples married her paternal first cousin, Prince Henry of Orleans (1822-97), Duke of Aumale, Duke of Guise and Prince de Condé. Henry was the fourth (and second-youngest) surviving son of king Louis Philippe I of France and Marie-Amelie of the Two Sicilies.
Through their daughter, Clementina and Leopoldo had four grandchildren, two of them reached adulthood:
- Louis Philippe Marie Léopold, Prince de Condé (1845–1866)
- François Louis d'Orléans, Duc de Guise (1854–1872)
However, neither of them married nor produced children of their own, so Clementina's line went extinct in 1872, which she lived long enough to see.
Leopoldo's eldest sister, Clementina's mother, was Holy Roman Empress and Empress of Austria. His other sisters were queens of Sardinia, of the French, and of Spain. His elder brother was king of the Two Sicilies.
The Dowager Princess of Salerno died on 3 September 1881 at chateau de Chantilly, France, the place of her widowed son-in-law Duke Henry, at age of 83, all her descendants having predeceased her.
