Archduchess Maria Clementina Franziska Josepha of Austria (1 March 1798 – 3 September 1881) was Princess of Salerno by marriage to the Sicilian prince

Leopold, Prince of Salerno Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno (2 July 1790 – 10 March 1851) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Archduchess Clementina of Austr ...

. She was born an

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as the daughter of

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, and Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily.

Biography

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Early life

Born at the

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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 Theresa of Naples and Sicily. Maria Clementina was a younger sister of

Marie Louise, Empress of the French Marie Louise (Maria Ludovica Leopoldina Franziska Theresia Josepha Lucia; 12 December 1791 – 17 December 1847) was Duchess of Parma from 11 April 1814 until her death in 1847. She was Napoleon's second wife and as such Empress of the French a ...

, 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 Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria (17 December 1802 – 8 March 1878) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was the father of two emperors: Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico. Through his third son Karl Lud ...

, 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 Prince Henri, Duke of Aumale. Henri was the fourth (and second-youngest) surviving son of

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and his wife Princess Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. Henri and Maria Clementina were also first cousins as both of their mothers were sisters. 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

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, 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 Prince Henri, Duke of Aumale, 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 Order of the Starry Cross.Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Kaiserthumes Österreich
(1868), p. 110, Sternkreuz-Orden. * : Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa.

Ancestry

References

External links

Archive letters from Maria Clementina to her sister Marie Louise
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