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{{Short description|Queen of Sardinia from 1821 to 1831}}
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{{For|other people called Maria Christina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies|Maria Christina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (disambiguation)}}
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| name         = Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily
| full name    = Maria Cristina Amelia Teresa
| succession   = [[Queen consort of Sardinia]]
| reign-type   = Tenure
| reign        = 12 March 1821 &ndash; 27 April 1831
| image        = Berger - Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily - Castle of Agliè.jpg
| caption      = Portrait of Maria Cristina in the Castle of Aglié, by [[Giacomo Berger]] (1816)
| spouse       = {{marriage|[[Charles Felix of Sardinia]]|1807|1831|end=d}}
| house        = [[House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies|Bourbon-Two Sicilies]]
| father       = [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies]]
| mother       = [[Maria Carolina of Austria]]
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1779|01|17|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Caserta Palace]], Caserta, [[Kingdom of Naples]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1849|03|11|1779|01|17|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Savona]], [[Kingdom of Sardinia]]
| burial_place = [[Hautecombe Abbey]], [[Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille]]
}}
'''Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily''' (Maria Cristina Amelia Teresa; 17 January 1779 &ndash; 11 March 1849) was a Princess of Naples and Sicily and later [[List of Savoyard consorts|Queen of Sardinia]] as wife of [[Charles Felix of Sardinia|King Charles Felix]]. She was a daughter of [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies]] and [[Maria Carolina of Austria]].
==Princess of Naples and Sicily (1779–1807)==
[[File:Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun - La princesa María Cristina de Borbón.jpg|thumb|upright|Portrait of Princess Maria Cristina as a child (by [[Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun]], {{Circa|1790}})]]
Maria Cristina was born on 17 January 1779 at the [[Caserta Palace]] in [[Caserta]]. She was the sixth child and fourth daughter of King [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies]] and his wife [[Maria Carolina of Austria]], a daughter of Empress [[Maria Theresa of Austria]]. She was her mother's favourite child.
Her twin sister Maria Cristina Amelia died of [[smallpox]] on 26 February 1783, at the age of four.
==Duchess of Genoa (1807–1821)==
Maria Cristina was married on 6 April 1807 in [[Palermo]] with [[Charles Felix of Sardinia|Prince Charles Felix of Savoy]], who became King of Sardinia when his elder brother [[Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia|Victor Emmanuel I]] abdicated in 1821. Until her husband became king, she was styled as the ''Duchess of Genoa''.
==Queen of Sardinia (1821–1831)==
The royal couple were interested in the arts and artists, and turned the Royal House in [[Agliè]] and the [[Villa Rufinella]] in [[Frascati]] into comfortable residences. During her husband's reign, they lived at the [[Palazzo Chiablese]], where her husband later died in 1831.
In 1825, the queen engaged the archaeologist Marquess Luigi Biondi (1776–1839), whose excavation work uncovered [[Tusculum]], an excavation in which Maria Cristina financed.{{CN|date=May 2024}} In 1839 and 1840, the architect and archaeologist [[Luigi Canina]] (1795–1856) was engaged by the royal family and excavated the Theatre area of Tusculum.{{CN|date=May 2024}} The ancient works of art excavated were sent to the Duke of Savoy's Castle of [[Agliè]] in [[Piedmont]].
Charles Felix died in 1831 after a reign of ten years. Maria Cristina lived the rest of her life in Turin, Naples, Agliè and Frascati, and died in Savona, [[Liguria]]. She was buried beside her husband in the [[Hautecombe Abbey]], [[Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille]].{{CN|date=May 2024}} The couple had no children.
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily'''
|2= 2. [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies]]
|3= 3. [[Maria Carolina of Austria]]
|4= 4. [[Charles III of Spain]]
|5= 5. [[Maria Amalia of Saxony]]
|6= 6. [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]
|7= 7. [[Maria Theresa|Maria Theresa, Queen of Austria]]
|8= 8. [[Philip V of Spain]]
|9= 9. [[Elisabeth Farnese]]
|10= 10. [[Augustus III of Poland]]
|11= 11. [[Maria Josepha of Austria]]
|12= 12. [[Leopold, Duke of Lorraine]]
|13= 13. [[Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans]]
|14= 14. [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]]
|15= 15. [[Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick]]
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==References==
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