Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy

Maria Carolina of Savoy (also Maria Carolina of Sardinia, Italian Maria Carolina Antonietta Adelaide di Savoia, born January 17, 1764 in Turin, † December 28, 1782 in Dresden) was a princess of Sardinia from the House of Savoy and by marriage Princess of Saxony.

Life

Maria Carolina was the tenth child and youngest daughter of King Victor Amadeus III. of Sardinia and his wife Maria Antonia of Spain in Royal Palace of Turin to the world. Together with her ​​two younger brothers Charles Felix and Giuseppe Benedetto she grew up in the care of her governess, the Countess Radicati on.

In the presence of the entire royal family, she was married in the afternoon on September 29, 1781 at 4 clock in the chapel of the Castello di Moncalieri per procurationem with the Saxon Prince and later King Anton I.. The groom was represented at the ceremony by the eldest brother of the bride, Charles Emmanuel. In addition many members of the Sardinian court, and superscript clergy also Camillo Marcolini was present in his capacity as special envoy Saxon at the ceremony. The next day, Maria Carolina Turin left towards Saxony. Her family accompanied her until Vercelli, because it was the Princess exceedingly difficult to separate from their relatives. From Vercelli their journey across Milan, Roveredo went to Switzerland and Innsbruck, Austria to Augsburg, where the travelers arrived on 14 October. There surrendered two of its companion the princess officially Camillo Marcolini as a representative of the Saxon court.

On October 24, 1781 Maria Carolina met at 11 clock in the morning finally in Dresden, where she met her husband, the heir to the throne, the first time in person. That same evening the ceremonial marriage of the couple in the Catholic Court Church was held in the evening at 6 clock. This was followed by several days festivities, including court balls and opera performances, which lasted until October 28.

Just a year after the marriage of the princess died on December 28, 1782 at the age of only 18 years from the effects of smallpox, leaving no children. She was buried in the Great Tomb of the Catholic Hofkirche in Dresden.