Prince Carlo Francesco, Duke of Aosta

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Prince Carlo Francesco
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia
MotherElisabeth Therese of Lorraine

Carlo Francesco, Duke of Aosta (Carlo Francesco Maria Augusto; 1 December 1738 – 25 March 1745) was a prince of Savoy.

Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia
.

Biography

Prince Carlo was born at the

Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and Élisabeth Thérèse of Lorraine. His mother died giving birth to his brother Prince Benedetto, named after Pope Benedict XIV who became pope
the year before his birth.

Prince Carlo Francesco, with his mother, Queen Elisabeth Therese.

At the time of his birth, he was third in line to the Sardinian throne after his father and his oldest half brother

Prince of Carignan. His maternal cousin's included the future Queen of Naples and the famous Marie Antoinette
.

He died in Turin aged 7, and was buried at Royal Basilica of Superga, Turin.

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ "Savoia". Retrieved 2010-08-26.
  2. ^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 27.