Princess Eleonora of Savoy

Eleonora of Savoy
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia
Mother	Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg

Eleonora Maria Teresa of Savoy (28 February 1728 – 14 August 1781) was a Savoyard princess, the eldest daughter of

. She died unmarried.

Biography

Eleonora Maria Teresa di Savoia was the second child and eldest daughter of

. She was born at the Royal Palace of Turin, the city residence of the Savoyard royal family.

She received the forename of her maternal grandmother,

Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

.

Her maternal cousins included

Ferdinand VI of Spain

, who was king of Spain at the time of her birth.

She was born to a relatively happy marriage between her parents. Her paternal grandmother Anne Marie d'Orléans died in August 1728 when Eleonora was six months old.

Her mother died in 1735 when Eleonora was six. Thus she was the highest ranking female at the Savoyard court until the marriage of her brother, the future

in 1750.

Eleonora, and her sister

, an older sister of Maria Antonietta in 1744.

Her two nieces, Princesses

would later marry two sons of Louis, Dauphin of France in 1771 and 1773 respectively.

The spinster princess died at the

died at Moncalieri in 1785.

Ancestry

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