Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy

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Margaret Yolande of Savoy
Margaret Yolande c. 1662
Duchess consort of Parma and Piacenza
Tenure29 April 1660 – 29 April 1663
Born(1635-11-15)15 November 1635
Castello del Valentino, Turin, Duchy of Savoy
Died29 April 1663(1663-04-29) (aged 27)
Ducal Palace of Colorno, Parma, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
Burial
Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata
Spouse
Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma

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(m. 1660)​
Names
Margherita Violante di Savoia
Christine Marie of France

Margaret Yolande of Savoy (15 November 1635 – 29 April 1663) was Princess of Savoy from birth and later

Ranuccio Farnese, son of the late Odoardo Farnese and Margherita de' Medici
. She died in childbirth in 1663.

Biography

Margherita Violante was the fifth child born to

Christine Marie of France, daughter of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici. She was born at the Castello del Valentino
in the Duchy of Savoy which had been ruled by her family since 1416.

Her father died in October 1637, when she was just two years old. As such, her oldest surviving brother

Duke of Savoy
. Her mother was thus Regent of Savoy.

Margaret Yolande with her brother Carlo Emanuel II, 1637

Margherita Violante grew up at a time when her two uncles

Prince Maurice and his younger brother Prince Thomas of Savoy
disputed the power of their sister-in-law, and her French entourage.

The first of her siblings to marry was her eldest sister

Louis XIV of France, first cousin of Margherita Violante; Louis XIV's father Louis XIII
was the oldest brother of Christine Marie.

Margherita Violante was in competition with the Spanish court who had presented the Infanta

Elisabeth of France, another sister of Louis XIII and Christine. Maria Teresa's father Philip IV of Spain was also the brother of Anne of Austria
, mother of Louis XIV and was eager to bring about peace between France and Spain with the marriage of Louis and Maria Teresa.

Negotiations with France and Savoy went as far as Louis XIV and Margherita Violante, known to the French as Marguerite Yolande de Savoie, meeting at Lyon on the French royal family leaving Paris on October 26, 1658. The French entourage included the Dowager Queen, Louis XIV, Philippe d'Anjou, la Grande Mademoiselle and Marie Mancini.[1]

The French were impressed by her appearance despite saying her skin was too tanned. They also said she was a quiet girl. Upon hearing of this meeting at Lyon, Philip IV is said to have said the marriage would not happen..

Prior to the proposed Franco-Savoyard match, Antoine Pimentel marquis de Tábara, Spanish ambassador had had secret talks with Cardinal Mazarin which later led the French to say to the Savoyard's ...the Savoyard marriage is not for the King of France, Philip IV King of Spain proposes his daughter, the Infanta Maria Teresa who has all the qualities of being the wife of Louis XIV...[2]

The match, great for Savoy, was never to be; Louis XIV married Maria Teresa, the two were the parents of

Ranuccio Farnese
. The two would marry in Turin on 29 April 1660. The couple had two children who both died; the first was a stillborn daughter; the second was a son who live only one day.

Margherita Violante and her husband started to reconstruct the Ducal Palace of Colorno, the main residence of the Ducal family. It was at the Ducal Palace that she died giving birth to her second child. She was buried at the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata in the centre of Parma.

After her death, her husband married two princesses of Modena

Francesco Farnese
, later Duke of Parma, continued the work at Colorno dying in 1727.

Issue

  • NN Farnese [stillborn daughter] (Ducal Palace of Colorno, 14 December 1661)
  • NN Farnese [son] (Ducal Palace of Colorno, 27 April 1663 – Ducal Palace of Colorno, 28 April 1663)

Ancestors

References

  1. ^ At this point it was well known that Louis harboured a great passion for Marie much to the dislike of the Dowager Queen
  2. ^ « ...le mariage savoyard n’est pas digne du roi de France, Philippe IV roi d’Espagne propose sa fille, l’infante Marie-Thérèse qui a toutes les qualités pour devenir l’épouse de Louis XIV... ».
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