Elisabeth of Savoy-Carignano
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Elisabeth of Savoy-Carignano, known in Italian as Maria Elisabetta di Savoia-Carignano, or in full as Maria Francesca Elisabetta Carlotta Giuseppina di Savoia-Carignano (13 April 1800, - 25 December 1856) was Princess of Carignano and the maternal grandmother of Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of a united Italy.
She was born in Paris to Carlo Emanuele (1770-1800), 6th Prince of Carignano and Maria Cristina Albertina of Saxony (1779-1851), and younger sister of Carlo Alberto, future King of Sardinia.
On 28 May 1820 she was married in Prague to Archduke Rainer of Austria, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia.
With Rainer she had five children:
- Maria Carolina (1821 - 1844)
- Adelaide (3 June 1822 - 20 January 1855), who became Maria Adelaide the wife of Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Piedmont, Savoy, and Sardinia from 1849 to 1861 and subsequently King of Italy.
- Leopoldo (6 June 1823 - 24 May 1898)
- Ernesto (8 August 1824 - 4 April 1899)
- Ranieri (11 January, 1827 - 27 January, 1913)
Elisabeth of Savoy-Carignano died in Bolzano on Christmas Day, 1856.
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- The original version of this article was based principally on its equivalent in the Italian Wikipedia, in the version retrieved on 2007-03-12.
