Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily
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Maria Luisa of the Two Sicilies (Naples, July 27, 1773 - Vienna, September 19, 1802) was a Princess of the Two Sicilies and wife of the Grand Duke of Tuscany .
Born in Naples, her father was Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, son of Charles III of Spain and her mother was Marie Caroline of Austria, daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria.
On August 15, 1790, she married her double first cousin, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who ruled in Tuscany until 1801, when in the Treaty of Aranjuez, he was forced by Napoleon to make way for the Kingdom of Etruria. The couple went into exile and Ferdinand was compensated by being given the secularized lands of the Archbishop of Salzburg as Grand-Duke of Salzburg.
Maria Luisa died in childbirth the next year in Vienna and is buried in the Kaisergruft with her stillborn son in her arms.
The couple had six children :
- Caroline Ferdinanda Theresa (1793-1802)
- Francis Leopold (1794-1800)
- Leopold II (1797-1870), Grand Duke of Tuscany between 1824-1859
- Maria Louisa Josepha (1799-1857)
- Maria Theresa (1801-1855), married in 1817 King Charles Albert of Sardinia.
- Stillborn son (1802)
