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 The House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies is a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon that ruled Southern Italy and Sicily for more than a century in the 18th and 19th centuries. It descends from the Capetian dynasty in legitimate male line through Phili ...

and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Archduchess Clementina of Austria in 1816, and became the

Prince of Salerno This page is a list of the rulers of the Principality of Salerno. Salerno was a Lombard Principality in southern Italy in the latter centuries of the first millenium. When Prince Sicard of Benevento was assassinated by Radelchis I of Benevento, ...

Biography

Born Leopoldo of Naples and Sicily, he was the sixth son of

Ferdinand IV of Naples Ferdinand I ( Italian: ''Ferdinando I''; 12 January 1751 – 4 January 1825) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1816 until his death. Before that he had been, since 1759, King of Naples as Ferdinand IV and King of Sicily as Ferdinand III. He was ...

Later King of the Two Sicilies and

Maria Carolina of Austria Maria Carolina of Austria (Maria Carolina Louise Josepha Johanna Antonia; 13 August 1752 – 8 September 1814) was Queen of Naples and Sicily as the wife of King Ferdinand IV and III, who later became King of the Two Sicilies. As ''de facto' ...

, daughter of

Maria Theresa of Austria Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was the ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position in her own right. She was the sovereig ...

Marriage and issue

Leopold married his niece and double-first cousin once removed Archduchess Clementina of Austria, third surviving daughter of

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor Francis II and I (; 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835. He was also King of Hungary, List of rulers of Croatia, Croa ...

(later Francis I of Austria) and his sister Maria Teresa of Naples and Sicily, on 28 July 1816 at

Schönbrunn Palace Schönbrunn Palace (Austrian German, German: Schloss Schönbrunn ) was the main summer residence of the House of Habsburg, Habsburg rulers, located in Hietzing, the 13th district of Vienna. The name ''Schönbrunn'' (meaning "beautiful spring") ha ...

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. They had four children but only their daughter Princess Maria Carolina survived infancy. Prince Louis and two infants died within their first year. * Stillborn daughter* (16 September 1819) * Princess Maria Carolina (26 April 1822 – 6 December 1869); married, on 25 November 1844, Prince Henri, Duke of Aumale. Had issue. * Prince Lodovico Carlos (19 July – 7 August 1824) died in infancy. * Stillborn daughter* (5 February 1829) Leopold also had an extramarital affair with the Viennese dancer Fanny Elssler, which led to the birth of an illegitimate son, Franz, born in 1827 and died by suicide in 1873.

Death

Leopold died at the age of 60 on 10 March 1851 in Naples. His wife, Clementina, died 30 years later at the age of 83.

Honours

* Knight of the Order of Saint Januarius (1790) * Knight Grand Cross of Justice of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (1797) * Knight of the Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece (1802) *Knight of the Orders of the King of France (1810) * Knight of the Order of Saint Ferdinand and of Merit * Knight of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III * Knight of the Order of Saint George and Reunion * Knight of the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation (1822)

Ancestry

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