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  1. 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, Duke of Calabria in 1778, Francis became the heir ...

  2. Mar 4, 2024 · Francis I was the king of the Two Sicilies from 1825. The son of Ferdinand I and Maria Carolina, Francis at first inclined toward liberalism. After the introduction of the constitution of 1812, which provided for a bicameral government along British lines, he was appointed vicario, or regent, of

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  3. Francis I, 1777–1830, king of the Two Sicilies (1825–30), son and successor of Ferdinand I. He continued the ruthless and reactionary policy of his father, and his court was notorious for waste and corruption. He was succeeded by his son Ferdinand II. Source for information on Francis I (king of the Two Sicilies): The Columbia Encyclopedia ...

  4. Francis I of Bourbon by Giuseppe Cammarano (attr.) After Ferdinand’s extraordinary long reign, his son Francis I, King of the Two Sicilies, reigned for a very short period, five years only, and perhaps he was the least important king among the sovereigns of the Bourbon family of the Two Sicilies. Born in Naples on 14 August 1777, he died in ...

  5. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( Italian: Regno delle Due Sicilie) [1] was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of a cadet branch of the Spanish Bourbons. [2] The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and size in Italy before Italian unification, comprising Sicily and most of the area of today's ...

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  7. Francis II ( Neapolitan and Italian: Francesco II, christened Francesco d'Assisi Maria Leopoldo; Sicilian: Francischieddu; 16 January 1836 – 27 December 1894) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1859 to 1861. He was the last King of the Two Sicilies, as successive invasions by Giuseppe Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia ultimately ...

  8. 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 ...

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