Princess Antonietta of the Two Sicilies
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Maria Antonia Josepha (Antonietta) (Naples, March 16, 1851 – Freiburg im Breisgau, September 12, 1938), was a Princess of the Two Sicilies.
Maria Antonia was the eldest daughter of Francesco Count of Trapani (son of Francis I of the Two Sicilies) and Princess Isabella of Tuscany (daughter of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany).
Maria Antonia married on June 8, 1868 in Rome with Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Sicily, son of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies.
They had twelve children:
- Prince Ferdinando Pius, Duke of Calabria (1869-1960), married Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria, a daughter of King Ludwig III of Bavaria. This marriage had six issue.
- Prince Carlos Tancredi (1870-1949), married in 1901 to Princess Maria de las Mercedes of Spain. Had Issue. Re-married in 1907 to Princess Louise of Orléans of France. Grandparents of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
- Prince Francesco di Paola (1873-1876)
- Princess Maria Immacolata (1874-1947), married in 1906, to Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, a younger son of Infanta Maria Ana of Portugal and King George of Saxony.
- Princess Maria Cristina (1877-1947), married in 1900, to Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria-Tuscany, a younger son of Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his heir as head of the Grand Ducal house of Tuscany.
- Princess Maria di Grazia (1878-1973), married in 1908, to Prince Dom Luiz of Orléans and Bragança.
- Princess Maria Giuseppina Antonietta (1880-1971)
- Prince Gennaro (1882-1944), married in 1922, to Beatrice Bordessa, Countess of Villa Colli. Her title was by grant of the Count of Caserta,1923
- Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro (1883-1973), married in 1923 to his cousin, Countess Marie Caroline Zamoyska, a daughter of Count Andrzej Zamoyski.
- Prince Filippo (1885-1949), married to Marie Louise of France.
- Prince Francesco d'Assisi (1888-1914)
- Prince Gabriele (1897-1975), married in 1927 to Princess Malgorzata Czartoryska and in 1932 to Cecilia Lubomirska, daughter of Prince Kasimir Lubomirski.