Princess Elisabeth of Savoy-Carignan

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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 Charles Emmanuel of Savoy, 6th Prince of Carignano (1770-1800) and Maria Cristina Albertina of Saxony (1779-1851), and was the 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.