Marie Joséphine of Savoy

Luise Maria Josepha Maria Giuseppina Luigia of Savoy or, French Marie Josephine Louise de Savoie ( born September 2, 1753 Turin, Italy, † November 13, 1810 in Hartwell House in Aylesbury at Oxford), was by marriage Countess of Provence.

Life

Maria Josepha was the second daughter of Victor Amadeus III. , The 1773 King of Sardinia and Duke of Savoy, and his wife Maria Antonia of Spain.

Through their marriage, on 14 May 1771 with the grandson of Louis XV. , Count Stanislas Xavier of Provence, the future King Louis XVIII. of France, the brother of the later King Louis XVI. and Charles X, she was Countess of Provence. After the accession of Louis XVI. brought them the title of " Madame ". Maria Josepha fled after the outbreak of the French Revolution with her husband on the night of 20 to 21 June 1791 France, the same night in which Louis XVI. with his family took the failed escape attempt, which ended in Varennes. The pair was first inclusion in Brussels, then in Koblenz, where Karl Philipp, Count of Artois, the second brother of Louis XVI. and later Charles X, who was married to Maria Josepha's younger sister Maria Theresa, had found refuge. The exile forced the Count of Provence, to perform under various aliases and constant fear of assassination an unsteady life, which led him about Verona, Blankenburg, Jelgava in Courland and Sweden to England, where he first and in Wanstead, later in Gosfield in London finally, in Castle Hartwell ( Hartwell House) resided in Aylesbury at Oxford.

There, Maria Josepha died on 13 November 1810 in her 57th year. Her marriage to the future Louis XVIII. remained childless.

Maria Josepha is not listed among the queens of France, as they died four years before the accession to the throne of her husband.