Prince Leopold, Count of Syracuse

Prince Leopold
Count of Syracuse
Leopold, circa 12 years old
Spouse Princess Maria of Savoy-Carignan
Issue
Princess Isabella
Full name
Italian: Leopoldo Beniamino Giuseppe
House House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Father Francis I of the Two Sicilies
Mother Maria Isabella of Spain
Born 22 May 1813(1813-05-22)
Palermo
Died 4 December 1860(1860-12-04) (aged 47)
Pisa
Burial Basilica of Santa Chiara, Naples

Prince Leopoldo Beniamino Giuseppe of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Syracuse[1] (22 May 1813, Palermo[1] – 4 December 1860, Pisa[1]) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

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Family

Leopold was the fifth son of Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his second wife Maria Isabella of Spain.[1] Leopold's elder brother, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, considered a marriage between Leopold and Princess Marie of Orléans, but the negotiations with her father, Louis-Philippe of France, foundered over the French uprisings in 1834 and Louis-Philippe's refusal to grant Marie her part of the "donation-partage" of his lands (a condition Ferdinand had put in place for the marriage to occur).

Marriage and issue

Leopold ultimately married Princess Maria of Savoy-Carignan, second-eldest daughter of Prince Joseph Maria of Savoy-Carignan, Count of Villafranca and his wife Pauline Benedictine de Quélen de Vauguyon, on 16 June 1837[1] in Naples. Leopold and Maria had only one child, Isabella, who died less than a year after her birth in 1838.[1]

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

Honours

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Darryl Lundy (23 May 2003). "Leopoldo di Borbone, Principe di Borbone delle Due Sicilie". thePeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/p11455.htm#i114550. Retrieved 2008-10-02. 

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