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Maria Luisa of Spain, Queen of Etruria Convent of Santi Domenico e Sisto where Maria Luisa was imprisoned. [ 52 ] After this, Napoleon gave Spain to his brother Joseph Bonaparte and forced the Royal family into exile in Fontainebleau .
Maria Luisa Carlota was born in Barcelona to then King Louis I of Etruria and Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.The Spanish royal family were in the city to celebrate the marriage of her maternal uncle Ferdinand VII of Spain to Princess Maria Antonia of Naples on 6 October 1802.
Having been invested in Paris as King of Etruria, Louis and his family arrived in August 1801 at his new capital, Florence. In 1802, both Louis and his pregnant wife travelled to Spain to attend the double-wedding of Maria Luisa's brother Ferdinand and her youngest sister Maria Isabel. Offshore at Barcelona, Maria Luisa gave birth to their ...
Maria Luisa of Parma by Mengs, around 1768. María Luisa's mother tried to engage her to Louis, Duke of Burgundy, heir to the French throne. However, the young duke died in 1761. In 1762, Maria Luisa instead became engaged to her cousin Charles, Prince of Asturias, later King Charles IV of Spain. When her elder sister Isabella died in 1763 ...
His mother, Maria Luisa of Spain, was appointed regent. However, since Etruria was troubled with smuggling and espionage, Napoleon annexed the territory, thus it was the last non-Bonaparte Italian kingdom on the Peninsula to be absorbed into the French Empire.
Charles moved to Italy with his parents and in 1803, not yet 4 years old, he succeeded his father as King of Etruria under the name Louis II. His mother Infanta Maria Luisa assumed the regency while Charles Louis' minority lasted. In 1807, Napoleon Bonaparte dissolved the kingdom of Etruria and Charles Louis and his mother took refuge in Spain.
On 15 August 1790, Maria Luisa was wed with her first cousin Ferdinand, Grand Duke of Tuscany. [1] [2] The wedding ceremony took place in Florence.Her husband ruled the Grand Duchy of Tuscany until 1790, but was forced into exile due to the Treaty of Aranjuez, in which he was to, by Napoleon, make way for the Kingdom of Etruria.
Maria Luisa was born in Portici, in Campania, the site of the summer palace (Reggia di Portici) of her parents, Charles, King of Naples and Sicily, and Maria Amalia of Saxony on 24 November 1745, on her mother's 21st birthday. She was the fifth daughter, and second surviving child, of her parents.