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 Archduke Rainer of Austria (30 September 1783 – 16 January 1853) was a Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia from 1818 to 1848. He was also an Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia. Biography Rainer was a son of Empero ...

. She was the aunt and mother-in-law of

Vittorio Emanuele II Victor Emmanuel II ( it, Vittorio Emanuele II; full name: ''Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di House of Savoy, Savoia''; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was Kingdom of Sardinia, King of Sardinia from 1849 until 17 Marc ...

, the first

king King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...

of a united Italy. By birth, she was a member of the House of Savoy-Carignano.

Early life

Maria Francesca Elisabetta Carlotta Giuseppina was born in Paris to

Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano Charles Emmanuel of Savoy, 6th Prince of Carignano (24 October 1770 – 16 August 1800) was a Prince of Savoy and later the Prince of Carignano between 1780 and 1800, and the paternal grandfather of Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of a u ...

(1770–1800), and Princess Maria Cristina of Saxony (1770–1851). She had an elder brother,

Charles Albert Charles Albert (; 2 October 1798 – 28 July 1849) was the King of Sardinia from 27 April 1831 until 23 March 1849. His name is bound up with the first Italian constitution, the Albertine Statute, and with the First Italian War of Independence ...

, future King of Sardinia.

Marriage

On 28 May 1820 she was married in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

to Archduke Rainer of Austria,

Viceroy A viceroy () is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory. The term derives from the Latin prefix ''vice-'', meaning "in the place of" and the French word ''roy'', meaning "k ...

of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia.

Death

Elisabeth died of tuberculosis in

Bolzano Bolzano ( or ; german: Bozen, (formerly ); bar, Bozn; lld, Balsan or ) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third la ...

on Christmas Day, 1856.

Issue

With Rainer she had eight children: * Maria Carolina (1821–1844) *

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(3 June 1822 – 20 January 1855), who became the wife of

, King of

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

from 1849 to 1861 and subsequently

King of Italy King of Italy ( it, links=no, Re d'Italia; la, links=no, Rex Italiae) was the title given to the ruler of the Kingdom of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The first to take the title was Odoacer, a barbarian military leader, ...

. * Leopoldo Luigi (6 June 1823 – 24 May 1898) * Ernesto Carlo (8 August 1824 – 4 April 1899) * Sigismondo Leopoldo (7 January 1826 – 15 December 1891) * Ranieri Ferdinando (11 January 1827 – 27 January 1913) * Enrico Antonio (9 May 1828 – 30 November 1891) * Massimiliano Carlo (16 January 1830 – 16 March 1839)

Ancestry

References

*The original version of this article was based principally on its equivalent in the

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, i
the version
retrieved on 2007-03-12.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Elisabeth Of Savoy-Carignan 1800 births 1856 deaths Austrian princesses House of Habsburg-Lorraine House of Savoy-Carignano Italian people of Polish descent Italian nobility Nobility from Paris Princesses of Savoy