Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy (1729–1767)

Not to be confused with Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy.

Princess Maria Luisa
1765 painting
Born	(1729-03-25)25 March 1729 Royal Palace of Turin, Turin
Died	22 June 1767(1767-06-22) (aged 38) Rome, Italy
Burial	Royal Basilica of Superga, Turin
Names Maria Luisa Gabriela di Savoia
House	Savoy
Father	Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia
Mother	Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg

Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy (25 March 1729 – 22 June 1767) was a princess of Savoy.

Biography

Princess Maria Luisa by Louis-Michel van Loo.

Maria Luisa was the second daughter born to the reigning King of Sardinia and his second wife, the German Princess Polyxena of Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg who died in 1735, Marie Luisa being just five years of age. She was named after her aunt, Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy (1688–1714) who was Queen of Spain as wife of Philip V of Spain.

Her maternal cousins included Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano and his younger sister the future princesse de Lamballe, both of whom were born at the court of Savoy. Her paternal cousins included Ferdinand VI of Spain,^[1] who was king of Spain at the time of her birth.

Like her older sister, Eleonora, Maria Luisa was a proposed bride for Louis, Dauphin of France. The Dauphin was the eldest son of Louis XV of France who in turn was her first cousin.^[2]

The marriage between linking the rulers of France and Savoy never materialised, Louis marrying an Infanta of Spain who died in childbirth and then a Princess of Saxony. Like all her sisters, Maria Luisa would remain unmarried, dying at the age of 38 in Turin. She was buried at the Royal Basilica of Superga overlooking Turin. Her father died in 1773 and her oldest brother Victor Amadeus of Savoy succeeded as King.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy (1729–1767)[3]

8. Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy 4. Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia 9. Marie Jeanne of Savoy 2. Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia 10. Philippe de France, Duke of Orléans 5. Anne Marie d'Orléans 11. Henrietta of England 1. Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy 12. William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg 6. 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

1. Youngest son of Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain
2. Louis XV's mother Maria Adelaide was her aunt and the oldest sister of Eleonora's father Charles Emmanuel III
3. 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.

External links

Media related to Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy at Wikimedia Commons