Carlo, Duke of Calabria

Full name
	Italian: Carlo Tito Francesco Giuseppe

Carlo
Carlo
	Duke of Calabria
Born	4 January 1775; Caserta Palace, Kingdom of Naples
Died	17 December 1778 (aged 3); Caserta Palace, Kingdom of Naples
Burial	Basilica of Santa Chiara
Full name
	Italian: Carlo Tito Francesco Giuseppe
House	Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Father	Ferdinand IV of Naples
Mother	Maria Carolina of Austria
Religion	Roman Catholic

Carlo of Naples and Sicily (Italian: Carlo Tito Francesco Giuseppe; 4 January 1775 – 17 December 1778) was Duke of Calabria as heir to Naples and Sicily.

Biography

Born at the Caserta Palace near Naples, he was known as the Duke of Calabria at birth as the heir apparent to his father's throne. His mother was a daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and thus sister of Marie Antoinette.

A member of the House of Bourbon, he was a prince of Naples and Sicily by birth. He was the hereditary prince of Naples. His birth allowed his mother to have a place in the Council of State, pursuant to his parents' marriage contract.

Carlo died of smallpox[1] aged 3. Two of his younger siblings would die of smallpox also: Princess Maria Cristina Amelia, who caught it from Prince Giuseppe the two dying within a week of each other.

He was buried at the Church of Santa Chiara in Naples.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Carlo, Duke of Calabria[2]

8. Philip V of Spain

4. Charles III of Spain

9. Elisabeth of Parma

2. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies

10. Augustus III of Poland

5. Maria Amalia of Saxony

11. Maria Josepha of Austria

1. Carlo of Naples and Sicily

12. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine

6. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor

13. Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans

3. Maria Carolina of Austria

14. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

7. Maria Theresa of Austria

15. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick

References

Dyson. C.C, The Life of Marie Amelie Last Queen of the French, 1782-1866, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, p. 33.
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. pp. 1, 9.

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[Marie_Amelie-1] Dyson. C.C, The Life of Marie Amelie Last Queen of the French, 1782-1866, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, p. 33.

[2] 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. pp. 1, 9.

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