Princess Elisabeth of Savoy

Elisabeth of Savoy Maria Francesca Elisabetta Carlotta Giuseppina ( born April 13, 1800 Paris, † December 25, 1856 in Bolzano ) was a Princess of Savoy and the aunt and mother of Victor Emmanuel, the first king of united Italy.

Maria Francesca Elisabetta Carlotta Giuseppina was III. , Born in Paris, the daughter of Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignan (1770-1800) and Maria Christina Albertina Carolina, self- granddaughter of Friedrich August II. / August. She had an older brother, Charles Albert, the future King of Sardinia.

On May 28, 1820 was in Prague to Rainer Joseph of Austria, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, married. From this marriage the following children were born:

• Maria (1821-1844), Star Order of the Cross Lady
• Adelheid (1822-1855)

• Leopold (1823-1898), Lieutenant-
• Ernst (1824-1899), Lieutenant-

• Sigismund (1826-1891), Lieutenant-
• Rainer (1827-1913)

• Heinrich (1828-1891), Lieutenant-

• Maximilian (1830-1839)

Elizabeth died in Bolzano on Christmas Day 1856.