, 1804): Maria Luisa Carlota is held by her mother
Maria Luisa. Her father
Louis I at left, her brother
Louis II at right. Maria Luisa Carlota was born in
Barcelona to then King
Louis I of Etruria and
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, Maria Luisa's youngest brother; the marriage never materialised. Maria Luisa Carlota married
Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, the widower of her aunt
Carolina of Parma, in
Lucca on 15 October 1825 (by proxy) and again in
Dresden on 7 November 1825. The couple had no children, and Maximilian renounced his rights to the throne in 1830. 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==