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{{Short description|Spanish Infanta}}
{{more citations needed|date=October 2019}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Luisa Carlotta
| title = Infanta of Spain
| image = López Portaña, Vicente - Princess Luisa Carlota de Borbón-Dos Sicilias - Google Art Project.jpg
| caption = Portrait by [[Vicente López Portaña]], {{circa|1819}}
| full name = Luisa Carlotta Maria Isabella
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain]]|12 June 1819}}
| issue = {{Plainlist|
* [[Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain|Isabel Fernanda, Countess Gurowska]]
* [[Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz|Francis, King of Spain]]
* [[Infante Enrique, Duke of Seville]]
* [[Infanta Luisa Teresa of Spain|Luisa Teresa, Duchess of Sessa]]
* [[Infanta Josefina Fernanda of Spain|Infanta Josefina Fernanda]]
* [[Infanta María Cristina of Spain (1833–1902)|María Cristina, Infanta of Portugal]]
* [[Infanta Amalia of Spain|Amalia, Princess of Bavaria]]
}}
| house = [[House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies|Bourbon-Two Sicilies]]
| father = [[Francis I of the Two Sicilies]]
| mother = [[María Isabella of Spain]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1804|10|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Palace of Portici]], [[Naples]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1844|1|29|1804|10|24|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Madrid]], Spain
| burial_place = [[El Escorial]]
}}
'''Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily''' (Luisa Carlotta Maria Isabella; 24 October 1804 – 29 January 1844), was an Italian royal, who was an [[Infanta of Spain]] and a daughter of King [[Francis I of the Two Sicilies]].
==Early life==
Luisa Carlotta was born at the [[Palace of Portici]], the eldest child of King [[Francis I of the Two Sicilies|Francis I]] from his second wife, Infanta [[María Isabella of Spain]]. Her maternal grandparents were King [[Charles IV of Spain]] and Queen [[Maria Luisa of Parma|Maria Luisa of Spain]]. Luisa Carlotta had eleven younger siblings, including King [[Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies]].
==Infanta of Spain==
[[File:Giuseppe Cammarano - La principessa Luisa Carlotta Maria Isabella (Palace of Caserta).jpg|left|thumb|318x318px|Portrait miniature of Princess Luisa Carlotta in 1820, by [[Giuseppe Cammarano]]]]
On 12 June 1819 in [[Madrid]], 14-year-old Luisa Carlotta married her maternal uncle [[Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain]]. He was ten years older than Luisa Carlotta.
Luisa Carlotta played an important role during the sickness of Ferdinand VII to ensure that her niece, Isabella, became heiress to the Spanish throne instead of her uncle Carlos. She supported the new succession law issued by the king.
When the king Ferdinand VII was suffering from a very severe gout attack that many feared would end his life (1832), a huge variety of characters, including the ambassador of Naples and her own confessor, harassed the [[Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies|Queen of Spain]] to persuade her to renounce the dynastic rights of her daughters in favor of Carlos, to avoid the horrors of a civil war. The queen crumbled under the pressures and got her husband to repeal the [[Pragmatic Sanction of 1830]]. This meant that the king's daughters would lose their right to the throne, in favor of the king's brother.
When the Counsel of Castile, an organization that favored a transition towards constitutionalism, learned about this, they sent word to Luisa Carlotta who was famous for her determination and strong personality, in hopes that she could persuade the queen to change her mind again. Luisa Carlotta rode nonstop after receiving the news and arrived to La Granja, unannounced, four days after the Pragmatic Sanction had been repealed. She went to find her sister who she criticized for her lack of resolve, calling her "regina di galleria". Afterwards she confronted prime minister Tadeo Calomarde. It is said that she was involved in an incident during the sickness of the Spanish monarch regarding this issue: when the Spanish king lay sick expecting death (1832), Luisa Carlotta tried by force to acquire a document forbidding female succession from prime minister Tadeo Calomarde and throw it on the fire. When Calomarde tried to save the document, she struck him in the face, upon which he uttered the well known words: "Madame, white hands don't offend!"{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}. Some authors, like Comellas, consider the slap an urban legend. Regardless, Luisa Carlotta was a formidable opponent to Calomarde in court.
When the king recovered, on 31 December 1832 he named his daughter heiress again, and gave the queen full regency powers. During the last months of Ferdinand's life, while Maria Cristina was regent, Carlotta stayed in the Spanish court and supported her sister in her governmental role. Carlotta was more active in government than her sister, to the point that first secretary [[Francisco Cea Bermúdez]] met with her more often than with the queen.
When her niece became queen in 1833 with her sister as regent, the friendship between the sisters turned into rivalry, and she left Spain for Paris. Luisa Carlotta died at Madrid at the age of 39.
==Issue==
[[File:Coat of Arms of Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily, Infanta of Spain.svg|right|225px|thumb|Coat of Arms of Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily, Infanta of Spain]]
She had eleven children:
* Francisco de Asís Luis (1820–1821); died in infancy,
* [[Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain|Isabel Fernanda]] (1821–1897); married Count Ignacy [[:File:Gurowski_1-10.jpg|Gurowski]].
* [[Francis, Duke of Cádiz|Francisco de Asís]], [[Duke of Cádiz]] (1822–1902); married [[Isabella II of Spain]]
* [[Infante Enrique, Duke of Seville|Enrique]], [[Duke of Seville]] (1823–1870)
* [[Infanta Luisa Teresa of Spain|Luisa Teresa]] (1824–1900), married Don [[José María Osorio de Moscoso y Carvajal]], [[Duke of Sessa]]
* Eduardo Felipe (1826–1830), died young
* [[Infanta Josefina Fernanda of Spain|Josefina Fernanda]] (1827–1910)
* María Teresa (1828–1829), died young
* Fernando María (1832–1854)
* [[Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain (1833–1902)|María Cristina]] (1833–1902), married Prince [[Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain|Sebastian Gabriël de Bourbon]], Infante of Spain and Portugal, great-grandson of King [[Charles III of Spain]]
* [[Infanta Amalia of Spain|Amalia]] (1834–1905), married [[Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1828–1875)|Prince Adalbert of Bavaria]], youngest son of King [[Ludwig I of Bavaria]].
==Ancestry==
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| 1 = 1. '''Princess Luisa Carlotta of the Two Sicilies'''
| 2 = 2. [[Francis I of the Two Sicilies]]
| 3 = 3. [[Maria Isabella of Spain]]
| 4 = 4. [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies]]<ref name="EB1911-Francis I">{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Francis I. of the Two Sicilies |volume=10}}</ref>
| 5 = 5. [[Maria Carolina of Austria]]<ref name="EB1911-Francis I"/>
| 6 = 6. [[Charles IV of Spain]]<ref name="DBE-Maria Isabel">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/20857/maria-de-la-o-isabel-de-borbon |title=María de la O Isabel de Borbón |encyclopedia=Diccionario biográfico España |first=Esperanza Navarrete Martínez|last=Navarrete Martínez |publisher=[[Real Academia de la Historia]] |language=es}}</ref>
| 7 = 7. [[Maria Luisa of Parma]]<ref name="DBE-Maria Isabel"/>
| 8 = 8. [[Charles III of Spain]]<ref name="Genealogie9">{{cite book|title=Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans| trans-title=Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AINPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA9|year=1768|publisher=Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel|location=Bourdeaux|language=fr|pages=9}}</ref> (= 12)
| 9 = 9. [[Maria Amalia of Saxony]]<ref name="Genealogie9"/> (= 13)
| 10 = 10. [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]<ref name="Genealogie1">''Genealogie ascendate'', p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AINPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 1]</ref>
| 11 = 11. [[Maria Theresa|Maria Theresa of Austria]]<ref name="Genealogie1"/>
| 12 = 12. [[Charles III of Spain]]<ref name="Genealogie9"/> (= 8)
| 13 = 13. [[Maria Amalia of Saxony]]<ref name="Genealogie9"/> (= 9)
| 14 = 14. [[Philip, Duke of Parma]]<ref name="Genealogie96">''Genealogie ascendate'', p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AINPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA96 96]</ref>
| 15 = 15. [[Louise Élisabeth of France]]<ref name="Genealogie96"/>
}}
== References ==
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