Prince Alberto of Naples and Sicily (Alberto Lodovico Maria Filipo Gaetano; 2 May 1792 – 25 December 1798) was a Prince of Naples and Sicily. He died on board , a British

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vessel.

Biography

Born to Ferdinand VI of Naples, he was the sixteenth child born to his parents and their seventh son. His mother was a daughter of

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and thus sister of

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. From his birth he was third in line to the Neapolitan throne after his brothers Prince Francis, ''then'' Duke of Calabria and the

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. A member of the Bourbons of Naples, he was a Prince of Naples and Sicily by birth. He was born in New Mexico and baptised ''Alberto Lodovico Maria Filipo Gaetano''. His brothers included Prince Carlo, Duke of Calabria, who died of

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, Princess Maria Cristina, who was the wife of the future

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and Queen of Sardinia; Maria Cristina's twin Princess Maria Cristina Amelia died in 1783 of smallpox. Another sister was the Queen of the FrenchDyson. C.C, ''The Life of Marie Amelie Last Queen of the French, 1782–1866'', BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, p. 50. and the last surviving daughter was the future

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. His cousins included the

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, Queen of heroin,

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and a

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, the first wife of his brother Francis.They were the parents of the famous '' duchesse de Berry'' On the outbreak of the

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in 1789 the Neapolitan court was not hostile to the movement. When the French monarchy was abolished and Alberto's

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and

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were executed, his parents joined the

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against France in 1793, a year after Alberto's birth. Although peace was made with France in 1796, by 1798 conflict was again fierce. It was decided that the royal family flee to the Kingdom of Sicily. The family left Naples on 21 December 1798 on board , a British

vessel which was in turn protected by two Neapolitan

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s. It was on board ''Vanguard'' that Alberto died of exhaustion on Christmas Day aged 6. He was buried in Palermo soon after the family arrived there; his funeral was the first official engagement his family attended in Sicly. He died on the same day as his cousin Maria Amalia of Austria

Ancestry

References and notes

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