Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily

Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily ( Given Name: Maria Antonietta Teresa Amelia Giovanna Battista Francesca Gaetana Maria Anna Lucia) ( born December 14, 1784 in Caserta, † May 21, 1806 in Aranjuez) was born a Princess of Bourbon - Sicily and by their Marriage, as the first wife of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, Princess of Asturias and the Infanta of Spain.

Life

Princess Maria Antonia was born in 1784 as daughter of King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily and Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria in the Palace of Caserta. The name of the princess was named in honor of the younger sister of the mother of Queen Marie Antoinette, was elected.

On October 6, 1802 Maria Antonia was in Barcelona with the son of King Charles IV of Spain and his wife Mary Louise of Bourbon -Parma, Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias, later King Ferdinand VII of Spain married.

The marriage with her ​​cousin - the fathers of the bride and groom were brothers - corresponded to a frequent practice in circles of the nobility of relatives marriage. So it was in the dynastic interest that on the same day Maria Antonia's oldest brother Francis of the Two Sicilies was married to Ferdinand's sister Maria Isabella of Spain.

The princess died at the age of 21 on May 21, 1806 Royal Palace of Aranjuez from tuberculosis, leaving as a result of two unhappy Bled pregnancies children. It should be another 24 years until the king was born a viable child shortly before his own death with Isabella.

Infanta Maria Antonia was buried later in the royal grave lay in the El Escorial monastery in the Pantheon of Infantes. Your grave inscription reads: Those whom God has loved, he has quickly freed from life.