Infanta Maria Josefa of Spain
Maria Josefa of Spain ( Spanish: María Josefa Carmela de Borbón y Sajonia; born July 6, 1744 Gaeta, Kingdom of Naples, † December 8, 1801 in Madrid) was by birth a Princess of Naples and Sicily. When her father, Charles III. 1759 the Spanish throne, she was Infanta of Spain. She came in October 1759 at the age of fifteen years with her family to Spain. She lived on her father's farm and later with her brother Charles IV of Spain and remained unmarried.
Life
Princess Maria Josepha of Naples and Sicily was the mother the name of her grandmother, Maria Josepha of Austria. Her father was part of a personal union since 1734 King of Naples and Sicily. Her parents married in 1738 and Maria Josefa was her first daughter, who was older than five years. At the time of her birth, she was the fourth child of her parents and had an older sister, Ana María Isabel ( 1743-1749 ).
Her younger sister Princess Maria Luisa Maria Josefa was preferred to marry Leopold II, the son of Empress Maria Theresa and later Grand Duke of Tuscany.
As a Princess of Naples and Sicily, she was by her father, a Infanta of Spain. This legitimate Maria Josefa to wear the title of Royal Highness. Her parents were a faithful couple, their mother Maria Amalia of Saxony died just a year after the family's arrival in Spain. Your own father died in 1788. Thereafter, Maria Josefa lived at the Spanish court with her sister, Mary Louise of Bourbon- Parma, a granddaughter of Louis XV. of France.
Maria Josefa was a candidate for the marriage to the widower Louis XV. , Whose wife Maria Leszczyńska died in 1768, when Maria Josefa was 24 years old. Louis did not agree, he allegedly saw offended by her young age. Maria Josefa remained single. After her father's death she continued to live with her brother Charles IV the royal palace. It supported the Carmelites, in their convent of St. Teresa she wanted to be buried.
She died at the Royal Palace of Madrid at the age of 57 years before her brother Charles IV lost the throne and was sent into exile in 1808. In 1877, her remains were transferred to El Escorial.
Title
- July 6 1744-6. October 1759 Her Royal Highness Princess Maria Josefa of Naples and Sicily, Infanta of Spain
- October 6 1759-8. December 1801 Her Royal Highness the Infanta Dona Maria Josefa, Infanta of Spain, Princess of Naples and Sicily
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