Elisabeth of Savoy | |
Archduchess Rainer Joseph of Austria | |
Issue: | Adelaide, Queen of Sardinia Archduke Leopold Ludwig Archduke Ernst Archduke Sigismund Archduke Rainer Ferdinand Archduke Heinrich Anton |
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Full Name: | Maria Francesca Elisabetta Carlotta Giuseppina di Savoia |
House: | Savoy-Carignano |
Father: | Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano |
Mother: | Maria Christina of Saxony |
Birth Date: | 13 April 1800 |
Birth Place: | Paris, French Republic |
Death Place: | Bolzano, Austrian Empire |
Burial Place: | Maria Himmelfahrt (Bolzano) |
Elisabeth of Savoy (Maria Francesca Elisabetta Carlotta Giuseppina; 13 April 1800 – 25 December 1856) was the Vicereine of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia by marriage to Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria. She was the aunt and mother-in-law of Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a united Italy. By birth, she was a member of the House of Savoy-Carignano.
Maria Francesca Elisabetta Carlotta Giuseppina was born in Paris to Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano (1770–1800), and Princess Maria Cristina of Saxony (1770–1851). She had an elder brother, Charles Albert, future King of Sardinia.
On 28 May 1820 she was married in Prague to Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia.
Elisabeth died of tuberculosis in Bolzano on Christmas Day, 1856.
With Rainer she had eight children: