Princess Carolina of Parma

Princess Caroline of Bourbon -Parma, full name Carolina Josephina Maria Theresia ( born November 22, 1770 in Parma, † March 1, 1804 in Dresden) was descended from the House of Bourbon - Parma and was by marriage with a Saxon prince, the mother of two Saxon kings.

Life

Caroline was the eldest daughter of Duke Ferdinand of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla from his marriage with the Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria.

Princess Caroline married on 22 April 1792 in Parma ( per procurationem ) and on 9 May 1792 in Dresden ( in person ) Prince Maximilian of Saxony, the youngest brother of Elector Friedrich August III. Since all older brothers Maximilian, both Prince Charles and Joseph of Saxony, which already died at a young age, as well as Elector Friedrich August and Crown Prince Anton, no viable male offspring testified, was Maximilian in 1796 second in line to the throne of the electorate and later Kingdom of Saxony.

Princess Caroline died in 1804 at the age of only 33 years in Dresden and was buried in the crypt of the Wettin Catholic Hofkirche.

Progeny

The couple had in common the following seven children:

• Amalie (1794-1870)
• Maria Ferdinanda (1796-1865) ∞ (6 May 1821) Grand Duke Ferdinand III. Tuscany
• Friedrich August II (1797-1854), King of Saxony
• Clemens Maria Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Franz Xavier de Paula Francis de Valois Joachim Benno Jacob Philipp ( born May 1, 1798 in Dresden, † January 4, 1822 in Pisa)
• Maria Anna (1799-1832) ∞ (16 November 1817) Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany
• Johann (1801-1873), King of Saxony
• Maria Josepha (1803-1829) ∞ (20 October 1819) King Ferdinand VII of Spain

• Person (Dresden)
• House of Bourbon -Parma
• Born in 1770
• Died in 1804
• Woman