Francis II , Francesco II ( Italian: Francesco II ; January 16, 1836 , Naples - December 27, 1894 , Arco , Italy ), the last king of the Two Sicilies in 1859 - 61 , representative of the Bourbon dynasty.
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November 27, 1845 was awarded the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called [5] .
The son of Ferdinand II . He ascended the throne in the midst of the struggle for the reunification of Italy. He tried to strengthen his position in the country with the help of Austria . After the detachment of Garibaldi’s detachment in Sicily, he made several liberal concessions ( June – July 1860 ). However, on September 6, 1860, revolutionary events forced Francis II to flee Naples to the Gaeta fortress. As a result of a plebiscite on October 21, 1860, the territory of the kingdom of both Sicilies was annexed to the Sardinian kingdom (since 1861 - the single Italian state). After the fall of the besieged Gaeta ( February 1861 ), he was in papal Rome from 1861 to 1870 , and spent the next half of his life wandering around Austria , France and Bavaria (his wife was a Bavarian princess).
I had no children. His heir and the next head of the house of the Sicilian Bourbons was his brother Alfonso Bourbon of Sicily, Count of Di Caserta .
Notes
- ↑ AA.VV. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - 1960.
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 The Peerage - 717826 copies.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119455358 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Karabanov P.F. Lists of remarkable Russian faces / [Ext.: P.V. Dolgorukov]. - M .: Univ. typ., 1860. - 112 p. - (From the 1st book. “Readings in the Island of History and Antiquities grew up at the Moscow University. 1860”)