Princess Maria Carolina Giuseppina Ferdinanda of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, full Italian

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 name: Maria Carolina Giuseppina Ferdinanda di Borbone, Principessa delle Due Sicilie (21 February 1856, Naples

Naples

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, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

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 – 7 April 1941, Warsaw

Warsaw

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, Greater German Reich

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) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

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 and a Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies by birth and a member of the House of Zamoyski and Countess Zamoyska through her marriage to Polish

Poland

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 nobleman Count Andrzej Zamoyski.

Family

Maria Carolina was the fourth child and third-eldest daughter of Prince Francis of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Trapani

Prince Francis, Count of Trapani

Francis of the Two Sicilies, Count of Trapani was a member of the House of the Two Sicilies.-Family:...

 and his wife Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Princess of Tuscany

Archduchess Maria Isabella, Princess of Tuscany

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Marriage and issue

Maria Carolina married Count Andrzej Zamoyski, son of Count Stanisław Kostka Andrzej Zamoyski and his wife Rosa Maria Eva Potocka, on 19 November 1885 in Paris

Paris

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, France

France

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. Maria Carolina and Andrzej had seven children:

• Countess Marie Josepha Zamoyska (23 May 1887–17 February 1961)
• Count Franz Joseph Zamoyski (1888–1948)
• Count Stanislaus Zamoyski (1889–1913)
• Countess Marie Isabelle Zamoyska (1891–1957)
• Countess Marie Therese Zamoyska (1894–1953)
• Countess Marie Karoline Zamoyska
  Countess Maria Carolina Zamoyska
  Countess Maria Carolina Zamoyska was the wife of Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro, claimant to the headship of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies...
  
   (22 September 1896–9 May 1968); married her cousin Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro
  Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro
  Prince Ranieri Maria Gaetano, Duke of Castro was a claimant to the headship of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.-Biography:...
  
  
• Count Jan de Kanty Zamoyski (17 August 1900–28 September 1961)

Titles and styles

• 21 February 1856 – 19 November 1885: Her Royal Highness Princess Maria Carolina of the Two Sicilies
• 19 November 1885 – 7 April 1941: Her Royal Highness Countess Maria Carolina Zamoyska, Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Ancestry