Princess Maria Felicita of Savoy
| Princess Maria Felicita | |
|---|---|
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia | |
| Mother | Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg |
Princess Maria Felicita of Savoy (19 March 1730 – 13 May 1801) was a princess of the
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and his second wife, Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg
.
Biography
Born at the
Duke of Chablais
.
Her maternal cousins included
Ferdinand VI of Spain
, who was king of Spain at the time of her birth.
She never married. She was described as very religious. She founded, with Giovanni Battista Canaveri, a home in her native Turin for widows and destitute noble women "Convitto Principessa Maria Felicita di Savoia". Canaveri was the director. It was made possible due to an act she had her brother implement, Convitto per donne nubili e vedove,[1] for women in the Kingdom of Sardinia.
On 6 December 1798, the French First Republic declared war on Sardinia.
Her nephew
Charles Emmanuel (then king) was forced to abdicate all his territories on the Italian mainland and to withdraw to the island of Sardinia. As Charles Emmanuel took little interest in the rule of what was left of his kingdom, he and Clotilde lived in Rome and then in Naples as guests of the wealthy Colonna family
. Maria Felicita went with her nephew to live as fugitives in Italy.
She died in
Duke of Chablais
.
Ancestry
| Ancestors of Princess Maria Felicita of Savoy Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg | | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13. Maria Anna of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort | |||||||||||||
| 3. Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg | |||||||||||||
| 14. Maximilian Charles Albert of Löwenstein-Wertheim | |||||||||||||
| 7. Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort | |||||||||||||
| 15. Maria Polyxena Khuen-Belasi-Lichtenberg | |||||||||||||
References and notes
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- ^ "Cenni storici". Convitto Principessa Maria Felicita di Savoia. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
- ^ 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. 25.