Maria-Teresa was the daughter of Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Princess Maria-Luisa Amalia of Two Sicilies.
On 30 September 1817, she married King Carlos Alberto I of
Sardinia. They were the arents of King Vittorio Emmanuel II, Fernando, Duke of Genoa, and Maria-Cristina.
In 1824 Carlos Alberto and Maria-Teresa were appointed heirs to the throne by King Vittorio Emmanuel I of Sardinia and became king and queen in 1831, when his successor, King Carlos Felice I, without issue.
Even among the frequently tangled genealogies of European nobility, the ancestry of Maria-Teresa was unusual. In fact, her parents had the same four grand-parents, so they were cousins when they married. This practice of alliances between cousins that was still common at that time, given that the families (and notably the parents and grand-parents of Maria-Teresa) had a lot of children, and this avoided to split too much the benefit of heirs though alliances and their descendance, and the multiplication of nobility titles to satisfy the various claims by decendants.
As a consequence, her grandparents consisted of two brother/sister pairs. Her paternal grandfather, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, was the brother of her maternal grandmother, Marie Caroline of Austria. Matching that combination, her paternal grandmother, Maria-Loisa of Spain, was the sister of her maternal grandfather, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. As a consequence she only had four great-grandparents rather than the usual eight.
On 30 September 1817, she married King Carlos Alberto I of
Sardinia. They were the arents of King Vittorio Emmanuel II, Fernando, Duke of Genoa, and Maria-Cristina.
In 1824 Carlos Alberto and Maria-Teresa were appointed heirs to the throne by King Vittorio Emmanuel I of Sardinia and became king and queen in 1831, when his successor, King Carlos Felice I, without issue.
Even among the frequently tangled genealogies of European nobility, the ancestry of Maria-Teresa was unusual. In fact, her parents had the same four grand-parents, so they were cousins when they married. This practice of alliances between cousins that was still common at that time, given that the families (and notably the parents and grand-parents of Maria-Teresa) had a lot of children, and this avoided to split too much the benefit of heirs though alliances and their descendance, and the multiplication of nobility titles to satisfy the various claims by decendants.
As a consequence, her grandparents consisted of two brother/sister pairs. Her paternal grandfather, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, was the brother of her maternal grandmother, Marie Caroline of Austria. Matching that combination, her paternal grandmother, Maria-Loisa of Spain, was the sister of her maternal grandfather, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. As a consequence she only had four great-grandparents rather than the usual eight.
Maria-Teresa was the daughter of Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Princess Maria-Luisa Amalia of Two Sicilies.
On 30 September 1817, she married King Carlos Alberto I of
Sardinia. They were the arents of King Vittorio Emmanuel II, Fernando, Duke of Genoa, and Maria-Cristina.
In 1824 Carlos Alberto and Maria-Teresa were appointed heirs to the throne by King Vittorio Emmanuel I of Sardinia and became king and queen in 1831, when his successor, King Carlos Felice I, without issue.
Even among the frequently tangled genealogies of European nobility, the ancestry of Maria-Teresa was unusual. In fact, her parents had the same four grand-parents, so they were cousins when they married. This practice of alliances between cousins that was still common at that time, given that the families (and notably the parents and grand-parents of Maria-Teresa) had a lot of children, and this avoided to split too much the benefit of heirs though alliances and their descendance, and the multiplication of nobility titles to satisfy the various claims by decendants.
As a consequence, her grandparents consisted of two brother/sister pairs. Her paternal grandfather, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, was the brother of her maternal grandmother, Marie Caroline of Austria. Matching that combination, her paternal grandmother, Maria-Loisa of Spain, was the sister of her maternal grandfather, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. As a consequence she only had four great-grandparents rather than the usual eight.
On 30 September 1817, she married King Carlos Alberto I of
Sardinia. They were the arents of King Vittorio Emmanuel II, Fernando, Duke of Genoa, and Maria-Cristina.
In 1824 Carlos Alberto and Maria-Teresa were appointed heirs to the throne by King Vittorio Emmanuel I of Sardinia and became king and queen in 1831, when his successor, King Carlos Felice I, without issue.
Even among the frequently tangled genealogies of European nobility, the ancestry of Maria-Teresa was unusual. In fact, her parents had the same four grand-parents, so they were cousins when they married. This practice of alliances between cousins that was still common at that time, given that the families (and notably the parents and grand-parents of Maria-Teresa) had a lot of children, and this avoided to split too much the benefit of heirs though alliances and their descendance, and the multiplication of nobility titles to satisfy the various claims by decendants.
As a consequence, her grandparents consisted of two brother/sister pairs. Her paternal grandfather, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, was the brother of her maternal grandmother, Marie Caroline of Austria. Matching that combination, her paternal grandmother, Maria-Loisa of Spain, was the sister of her maternal grandfather, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. As a consequence she only had four great-grandparents rather than the usual eight.
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