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Oct 15, 2021 · UNSPECIFIED - APRIL 23: Portrait of Francis I of the Two Sicilies (Naples, 1777-1830), King of the Two Sicilies (1825-1830). Son of Ferdinand IV of Naples and Maria Carolina of Austria. Painting attributed to Giuseppe Cammarano (1766-1850), oil on canvas, 130x103 cm. Capua, Museo Provinciale Campano (Archaeological Museum) (Photo by DeAgostini ...
The Royal Order of Francis I was founded on 28 September 1829 as an award of civil merit in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies for distinction in public service, science, the arts, agriculture, industry and commerce. Although the order was a State Order and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ceased to exist in 1860, the Order continued to be awarded ...
Deutsch: König Francesco I. Gennaro beider Sizilien (* 20. August 1777 in Neapel; † 8. November 1830 ebenda) aus dem Haus Bourbon. English: Francis I of the Two Sicilies (14 August 1777–8 November 1830) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1825 to 1830. Francis I of the Two Sicilies.
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1734–1860) was the oldest and largest of the Italian states in the nineteenth century, and its collapse in 1860 unexpectedly ensured Italy's political unification. After two centuries of Spanish rule and then a brief Austrian occupation, the kingdom became an independent dynastic state ruled by a cadet branch ...
Francis in 1790. Portrait by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Francis was born the son of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and his wife Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria in Naples. He was also the nephew of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, the last King and Queen of France before the first French Republic. At the death of his older brother Carlo ...
Nov 8, 2015 · Francis I died in Naples on this day in 1830 after having been King of the Two Sicilies for five years. The Two Sicilies was the largest of all the Italian states before unification, originally formed as a union between the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples. It lasted until 1860 when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Sardinia, which ...
The orders of knighthood of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were inseparable from the Crown, the de jure rights to which are today vested in the Head of the Royal House of the Two Sicilies. In this way, the Order of Francis I continued to exist, and to be awarded, long after the deposition of Francesco's grandson, Francesco II, in 1861, and is ...
