Prince Leopold, Count of Siracusa

Infobox Two Sicilies Royalty|prince
name =Prince Leopold
full name = Leopoldo Beniamino Giuseppe
title = Count of Siracusa


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spouse = Princess Maria of Savoy-Carignan
issue = Princess Isabella
royal house =House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
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father =Francis I of the Two Sicilies
mother =Maria Isabella of Spain
date of birth =birth date|1813|05|22|df=y
place of birth = Palermo
date of death = death date and age|1860|12|04|1813|05|22|df=y
place of death = Pisa
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Prince "Leopold" Benjamin Joseph of the Two Sicilies, Count of Siracusacite web | url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p11455.htm#i114550| title=Leopoldo di Borbone, Principe di Borbone delle Due Sicilie | date=23 May 2003 | accessdate=2008-10-02 | publisher= [http://thePeerage.com thePeerage.com] | author=Darryl Lundy] (born 22 May 1813 in Palermo; died 4 December 1860 in Pisa) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Leopold was the fifth son of Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his second wife Maria Isabella of Spain.

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 of Savoy-Carignan and his wife Pauline Benedictine de Quélen de Vauguyon, on 16 June 1837 in Naples. Leopold and Maria had only one child, Isabella, who died less than a year after her birth in 1838.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Prince Leopold, Count of Siracusa
2= 2. Francis I of the Two Sicilies
3= 3. Maria Isabella of Spain
4= 4. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
5= 5. Maria Carolina of Austria
6= 6. Charles IV of Spain
7= 7. Maria Luisa of Parma
8= 8. Charles III of Spain
9= 9. Maria Amalia of Saxony
10= 10. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
11= 11. Maria Theresa of Austria
12= 12. Charles III of Spain (= 8)
13= 13. Maria Amalia of Saxony (= 9)
14= 14. Philip, Duke of Parma
15= 15. Princess Louise-Élisabeth of France
16= 16. Philip V of Spain
17= 17. Elisabeth of Parma
18= 18. Augustus III of Poland
19= 19. Maria Josepha of Austria
20= 20. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine
21= 21. Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans
22= 22. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
23= 23. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
24= 24. Philip V of Spain (= 16)
25= 25. Elisabeth of Parma (= 17)
26= 26. Augustus III of Poland (= 18)
27= 27. Maria Josepha of Austria (= 19)
28= 28. Philip V of Spain (= 16)
29= 29. Elisabeth of Parma (= 17)
30= 30. Louis XV of France
31= 31. Maria Leszczyńska

References

External links

* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p11455.htm#i114550 Leopold] at thePeerage.com