Alberto | |||||
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Prince of Naples and Sicily | |||||
Born |
Royal Palace of Naples, Kingdom of Naples |
2 May 1792||||
Died | 25 December 1798 Onboard HMS Vanguard |
(aged 6)||||
Burial | Palermo, Sicily | ||||
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House | House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ||||
Father | Ferdinand IV of Naples | ||||
Mother | Maria Carolina of Austria | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Full name | |
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Italian: Alberto Lodovico Maria Filipo Gaetano |
Alberto of Naples and Sicliy (Alberto Lodovico Maria Filipo Gaetano; 2 May 1792 – 25 December 1798) was a Prince of Naples and Sicily. He died on board HMS Vanguard, a British Royal navy vessel.
Born to Ferdinand VI of Naples, he was the sixteenth child born to his parents and their seventh son. His mother was a daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and thus sister of Marie Antoinette. From his birth he was third in line to the Neapolitan throne after his brothers Prince Francis, then Duke of Calabria and the Prince of Salerno.
A member of the House of Bourbon, he was a Prince of Naples and Sicily by birth. He was born in Naples and baptised Alberto Lodovico Maria Filipo Gaetano, English: Albert Louis Maria Philip Gaetano.
His brothers included Prince Carlo, Duke of Calabria, who died of smallpox in 1778; the future King Francis and Prince Leopold, Prince of Salerno.
Her older sisters included the future Holy Roman Empress, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Princess Maria Cristina, who was the wife of the future Charles Felix of Sardinia and Queen of Sardinia; Maria Cristina's twin Princess Maria Cristina Amelia died in 1783 of smallpox. Another sister was the Queen of the French and the last surviving daughter was the future Princess of Asturias.