Princess Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Infobox Two Sicilies Royalty|princess
name =Princess Antonietta
full name = Maria Antonietta Giuseppina Leopoldina
title =Countess of Caserta


caption =
reign =
coronation =
predecessor =
successor =
succession =
spouse =Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta
issue =Prince Ferdinand Pius
Prince Carlos
Prince Francesco di Paola
Princess Maria Immaculata
Princess Maria Cristina
Princess Maria di Grazia
Princess Maria Giuseppina
Prince Gennaro
Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro
Prince Filippo
Prince Francesco d'Assisi
Prince Gabriele
royal house =House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
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father =Prince Francis, Count of Trapani
mother =Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Princess of Tuscany
date of birth =birth date|1851|03|16|df=y
place of birth = Naples, Two Sicilies
date of death =death date and age|1938|09|12|1851|03|16|df=y
place of death = Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Princess Maria "Antonietta" Giuseppina Leopoldina of Bourbon-Two Siciliescite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p11109.htm#i111081| title=Maria Antoinetta Guiseppa di Borbone, Principessa delle Due Sicilie | date=04 April 2008 | accessdate=2008-10-04 | publisher= [http://thePeerage.com thePeerage.com] | author=Darryl Lundy] cite web | url=http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/2sicilies.html| title=TWO SICILIES | date= | accessdate=2008-10-05 | publisher=Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site | author=Paul Theroff] (born 16 March 1851 in Naples, Two Sicilies; died 12 September 1938 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) was a Princess of the Two Sicilies by birth and by her marriage to Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, claimant to the defunct throne of the Two Sicilies. Antonietta was the eldest daughter of Prince Francis, Count of Trapani (son of Francis I of the Two Sicilies) and his wife Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Princess of Tuscany.

Marriage and issue

Antonietta married Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, son of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and his wife Maria Theresa of Austria, on 8 June 1868 in Rome. Antonietta and Alfonso had twelve children:

* Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria (1869-1960), married Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria, a daughter of King Ludwig III of Bavaria. This marriage had six issue.
* Prince Carlos (1870-1949), married in 1901 to Princess Maria de las Mercedes of Spain. Had Issue. Re-married in 1907 to Princess Louise of Orléans. Grandparents of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
* Prince Francesco di Paola (1873-1876)
* Princess Maria Immacolata (1874-1947), married in 1906, to Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, a younger son of Infanta Maria Ana of Portugal and King George of Saxony.
* Princess Maria Cristina (1877-1947), married in 1900, to Archduke Peter Ferdinand, Prince of Tuscany, a younger son of Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his heir as head of the Grand Ducal house of Tuscany.
* Princess Maria di Grazia (1878-1973), married in 1908, to Prince Dom Luiz of Orléans and Bragança.
* Princess Maria Giuseppina Antonietta (1880-1971)
* Prince Gennaro (1882-1944), married in 1922, to Beatrice Bordessa, Countess of Villa Colli. Her title was by grant of the Count of Caserta,1923
* Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro (1883-1973), married in 1923 to his cousin, Countess Carolina Zamoyska, a daughter of Count Andrzej Zamoyski.
* Prince Filippo (1885-1949), married to Marie Louise of France.
* Prince Francesco d'Assisi (1888-1914)
* Prince Gabriele (1897-1975), married in 1927 to Princess Malgorzata Czartoryska and in 1932 to Cecilia Lubomirska, daughter of Prince Kasimir Lubomirski.

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