Prince Gennaro of Naples and Sicily

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Gennaro
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Born (1780-04-12)12 April 1780
Royal Palace, Kingdom of Naples
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Caserta Palace, Kingdom of Naples
Burial Basilica of Santa Chiara, Naples
Full name
Italian: Gennaro Carlo Francesco
House House of Bourbon
Father Ferdinand IV of Naples
Mother Maria Carolina of Austria
Religion Roman Catholic

Gennaro of Naples and Sicily (Gennaro Carlo Francesco; 12 April 1780 – 1 January 1789) was a Prince of Naples and Sicily. He died of Smallpox aged 8. He and his mother are the central figures of a portrait by Angelica Kauffman in 1783.

Biography

Born at the Royal Palace of Naples in the Kingdom of Naples, he was his parents' third son and eighth child. He was named Gennaro in honour of Saint Januarius, the patron saint of Naples and a martyr saint of both the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

A member of the House of Bourbon, he was a Prince of Naples and Sicily by birth.

His sisters included the future Holy Roman Empress, Grand Duchess of Tuscany. His younger sister's Princess Maria Cristina, 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[1] and the youngest was the future Princess of Asturias.

His cousin's included a Duke of Parma, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Holy Roman Emperor, Queen of Portugal, King of Spain, a Duchess of Calabria, the first wife of his older brother Ferdinand.[2]

He was the second in line to the throne, second only to his oldest surviving brother Prince Francis, then Duke of Calabria. At the age of three, he survived a smallpox epidemic which killed his older sister Maria Cristina Amelia[1] and younger brother Gusieppe,[1] the two dying within a week of each other in February 1783. Later that year, his mother gave birth to a stillborn daughter named Maria Cristina in honour of the said casualty Maria Cristina Amelia.

In August 1788, his mother gave birth to another son named Carlo. In December 1788, Giuseppe caught smallpox and died on 2 January 1789 at the Caserta Palace. Gusieppe passed the illness onto his infant brother who died a month after he, the pair are both buried at the Basilica of Santa Chiara, Naples.

He died during the time of the outbreak of the French Revolution in which his famous aunt Marie Antoinette would be murdered.

Ancestry

Family of Prince Gennaro of Naples and Sicily
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Louis, Dauphin of France
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Philip V of Spain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Duchess Maria Anna of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Charles III of Spain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Odoardo II Farnese
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Elisabeth Farnese
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Dorothea Sophie of the Palatinate-Neuburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Augustus II of Poland
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Augustus III of Poland
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Maria Amalia of Saxony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Maria Josepha of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Prince Gennaro of Naples and Sicily
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Charles V, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Eleonora Maria of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Maria Carolina of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Eleonor Magdalene of the Palatinate-Neuburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Maria Theresa of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen
 
 
 
 
 
 

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

  • 12 April 1780 – 1 January 1789 His Royal Highness Prince Gennaro of Naples and Sicily

References and notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Dyson. C.C, The Life of Marie Amelie Last Queen of the French, 1782-1866, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, p. 33.
  2. They were the parents of the famous duchesse de Berry

See also