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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Maria Luisa Carlota
| title = Hereditary Princess of Saxony
| image = Carl Christian Vogel - "Portrait of Princess Louise".jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Portrait by [[Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein]] (c. 1834)
| birth_date = {{birth date|1802|10|2|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Barcelona]], Spain
| death_date = {{death date and age|1857|3|18|1802|10|2|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Rome]], [[Papal States]]
| burial_place = [[San Carlo ai Catinari]]
| house = [[House of Bourbon-Parma|Bourbon-Parma]]
| father = [[Louis I, King of Etruria]]
| mother = [[Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca]]
|spouse = [[Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony]]<br>Count Francesco Rossi<br>Count Giovanni Vimercati
}}
'''Maria Luisa Carlota of Parma''' (2 October 1802 &ndash; 18 March 1857) was a Princess of Parma and member of the [[House of Bourbon]]. She was married to [[Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony]] until his death, and had two later husbands.
==Biography==
Maria Luisa Carlota was born in [[Barcelona]] to then King [[Louis I of Etruria]] and [[Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca|Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain]]. The Spanish royal family were in the city to celebrate the marriage of her maternal uncle [[Ferdinand VII of Spain]] to [[Princess Maria Antonia of Naples]] on 6 October 1802.
Her mother, Maria Luisa, under difficulties gave birth to Maria Luisa Carlota (named after her deceased aunt, who had died four days before her mother's birth). At first, doctors thought that both mother and daughter would not survive.
Her maternal grandparents and her uncle Ferdinand VII wanted to marry Maria Luisa Carlota, then fourteen years old, to the [[Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain|Infante Francisco de Paula]], Maria Luisa's youngest brother; the marriage never materialised.
Maria Luisa Carlota married [[Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony]], the widower of her aunt [[Princess Carolina of Parma|Carolina of Parma]], in [[Lucca]] on 15 October 1825 (by proxy) and again in [[Dresden]] on 7 November 1825.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Commandant Weil |date=1921 |title=Revue des études historiques / publiée par la Société des études historiques |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k117052/f390.item |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=Gallica |page=386 |language=EN}}</ref> The couple had no children, and Maximilian renounced his rights to the throne in 1838. He died in 1838.
Maria Luisa Carlota spent most of her life in [[Vienna]], where she was known for her eccentricity. On 22 July 1849 she married again to a nobleman, Count Francesco Rossi, who died in 1854. On 19 February 1855 she married again, Count Giovanni Vimercati, by whom she had no issue and who outlived her, dying in 1861. She died in 1857, aged 54.
==Ancestors==
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|1= 1. '''Maria Luisa Carlotta of Parma'''
|2= 2. [[Louis I of Etruria]]
|3= 3. [[Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca]]
|4= 4. [[Ferdinand, Duke of Parma]]
|5= 5. [[Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma|Maria Amalia of Austria]]
|6= 6. [[Charles IV of Spain]]
|7= 7. [[Maria Luisa of Parma]]
|8= 8. [[Philip, Duke of Parma]]
|9= 9. [[Louise Élisabeth of France]]
|10= 10. [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]
|11= 11. [[Maria Theresa|Maria Theresa of Austria]]
|12= 12. [[Charles III of Spain]]
|13= 13. [[Maria Amalia of Saxony]]
|14= 14. [[Philip, Duke of Parma]] (= 8)
|15= 15. [[Louise Élisabeth of France]] (= 9)
|16= 16. [[Philip V of Spain]]
|17= 17. [[Elisabeth Farnese]]
|18= 18. [[Louis XV of France]]
|19= 19. [[Marie Leszczyńska]]
|20= 20. [[Leopold, Duke of Lorraine]]
|21= 21. [[Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans]]
|22= 22. [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]]
|23= 23. [[Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel|Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick]]
|24= 24. [[Philip V of Spain]] (= 16)
|25= 25. [[Elisabeth Farnese]] (= 17)
|26= 26. [[Augustus III of Poland]]
|27= 27. [[Maria Josepha of Austria]]
|28= 28. [[Philip V of Spain]] (= 16, 24)
|29= 29. [[Elisabeth Farnese]] (= 17, 25)
|30= 30. [[Louis XV of France]] (= 18)
|31= 31. [[Marie Leszczyńska]] (= 19)
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