Leopold, Prince of Salerno

Leopold Johann Joseph Michael of Naples and Sicily ( born July 2, 1790 in Naples, † March 10, 1851 in Naples), Prince of Salerno, was a member of the House of Bourbon and the House of Bourbon - Sicily.

He was the 15th child and the sixth son of Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies and his wife Maria Carolina of Austria. On 28 July 1816 he married his niece at Schönbrunn Palace Archduchess Maria Clementine of Austria. From the union four children were born, of whom Maria Carolina with only one daughter reached adulthood. With the dancer Fanny Elssler Leopold begat a son named extramarital French

Leopold is buried in the Basilica of Santa Chiara in Naples.

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