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A member of the House of Bourbon, he was a Prince of Naples and Sicily by birth. He was the ninth child of his parents and their fourth son. At the time of his birth, he was third in line to the throne after his brother Prince Francis, then Duke of Calabria and Prince Gennaro.
Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno (2 July 1790 – 10 March 1851) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Archduchess Clementina of Austria in 1816, and became the Prince of Salerno.
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- French Occupation and The Parthenopaean Republic
- Third Coalition
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- 1820 Revolution
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- Cultural Depictions
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Ferdinand was born in Naples and grew up amidst many of the monuments erected there by his father which can be seen today; the Palaces of Portici, Caserta and Capodimonte. Ferdinand was his parents' third son; his elder brother Charles was expected to inherit Naples and Sicily. When his father ascended the Spanish throne in 1759 he abdicated the th...
Ferdinand's minority/childhood ended in 1767, and his first act was the expulsion of the Jesuits. The following year he married Archduchess Maria Carolina, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa. By the marriage contract the queen was to have a voice in the council of state after the birth of her first son, and she was not slow to avail herself of this ...
Although peace was made with France in 1796, the demands of the French Directory, whose troops occupied Rome, alarmed the king once more, and at his wife's instigation he took advantage of Napoleon's absence in Egypt and of Nelson's victories to go to war. He marched with his army against the French and entered Rome (29 November), but on the defeat...
The king returned to Naples soon afterwards, and ordered a few hundred who had collaborated with the French executed. This stopped only when the French successes forced him to agree to a treaty which included amnesty for members of the French party. When the War of the Third Coalition broke out between France and Austria in 1805, Ferdinand signed a...
After the fall of Napoleon, Joachim Murat, who had succeeded Joseph Bonaparte as king of Naples in 1808, was dethroned in the Neapolitan War in 1815, and Ferdinand returned to Naples. By a secret treaty he had bound himself not to advance further in a constitutional direction than Austria should at any time approve; but, though on the whole he acte...
The suppression of liberal opinion caused an alarming spread of the influence and activity of the secret society of the Carbonari, which in time affected a large part of the army. In July 1820, a military revolt broke out under General Guglielmo Pepe, and Ferdinand was terrorised into signing a constitution on the model of the Spanish Constitution ...
Following the Austrian victory, the Parliament was dismissed and Ferdinand suppressed the Liberals and Carbonari. The victory was used by Austria to force its grasp over Naples' domestic and foreign policies. Count Charles-Louis de Ficquelmont was appointed as the Austrian ambassadorto Naples, practically administering the country as well as managi...
That Hamilton Woman (1941) directed by Alexander Korda, played by Luis AlberniFerdinando and Carolina (1999) directed by Lina Wertmüller, played by Sergio Assisi, Adriano Pantaleo, and Mario Scacciaat different agesLuisa Sanfelice (2004) directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, played by Emilio SolfrizziHeraldry of Ferdinand of Naples, Sicily and the Two SiciliesCoat of arms as King of Naples (1759–1799 / 1799–1806 /1814–1816)Coat of arms as King of Sicily (1759–1816)Coat of arms as King of the Two Sicilies (1816–1825)27. Apr. 2024 · Prince Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno - (2 July 1790, Naples, Kingdom of Naples – 10 March 1851, Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
The poor political and economic condition of the kingdom led to its easy collapse in the face of Giuseppe Garibaldi’s invasion in 1860, and both Naples and Sicily voted overwhelmingly for unification with northern Italy in the plebiscite of October of the same year.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
22. Aug. 2023 · House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: The Bourbons of The Two Sicilies is a cadet Italian branch of the House of Bourbon. It is thus descended from the Capetian dynasty in male line.
6. Jan. 2023 · Prince Leopold of the Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno ( Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele; 2 July 1790 – 10 March 1851) was a Bourbon of Naples. Born a Prince of Naples and Sicily, after 1816 he became a Prince of the Two Sicilies after the unification Kingdom of the Twa Sicilies by his grandfather King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies.
