Princess Elisabeth of Savoy


Elisabeth of Savoy was the Vicereine of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia by marriage to Archduke Rainer of Austria. She was the aunt and mother-in-law of Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of a united Italy.

Life

Maria Francesca Elisabetta Carlotta Giuseppina was born in Paris to Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, and Maria Cristina of Saxony. She had an elder brother, Charles Albert, future King of Sardinia.
On 28 May 1820 she was married in Prague to Archduke Rainer of Austria, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia.
Elisabeth died of tuberculosis in Bolzano on Christmas Day, 1856.

Issue

With Rainer she had eight children: