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Biography

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Early life

Born at the

in Vienna on 1 March 1798, Clementina was the third surviving daughter of

, later Emperor Francis I of Austria after the

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, and his wife

. Maria Clementina was a younger sister of Marie Louise, Empress of the French, Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, and Maria Leopoldina, Empress of Brazil. She was also an older sister of Marie Caroline, Crown Princess of Saxony, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria.

Marriage

Maria Clementina married her mother’s younger brother, Prince Leopoldo of the Two Sicilies,

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, on 28 July 1816 at the

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in Vienna. He was the youngest son of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria. From their four children, only a daughter survived to adulthood, Princess Maria Carolina of the Two Sicilies, who on 25 November 1844, in

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, married her paternal first cousin

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. Henri was the fourth (and second-youngest) surviving son of King Louis-Philippe of France and his wife Princess Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. Through their daughter, Clementina and Leopoldo had seven grandchildren, two of whom reached adulthood. However, neither of these grandchildren married or produced children of their own.

Death

Maria Clementina died on 3 September 1881 at the

, France, the home of her widowed son-in-law Duke Henri. She was eighty-three years old; all her descendants having predeceased her. She was buried at the Royal Chapel, Dreux, France.

Issue and family

*Stillborn daughter* (16 September 1819) * Princess ''Maria Carolina'' Augusta of the Two Sicilies (26 April 1822 – 6 December 1869); married

, and had issue. *Prince ''Lodovico'' Carlo of the Two Sicilies (19 July 1824 – 7 August 1824); died in infancy. *Stillborn daughter* (5 February 1829)

Honours

* : Dame of the

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.Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Kaiserthumes Österreich
(1868), p. 110, Sternkreuz-Orden. * : Dame of the

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Ancestry

References

External links

Archive letters from Maria Clementina to her sister Marie Louise
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