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Prince Leopoldo Beniamino Giuseppe of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Syracuse[1] (born 22 May 1813 in Palermo[1]; died 4 December 1860 in Pisa[1]) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Leopold was the fifth son of Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his second wife Maria Isabella of Spain.[1]
Leopold's elder brother, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, considered a marriage between Leopold and Princess Marie of Orléans, but the negotiations with her father, Louis-Philippe of France, foundered over the French uprisings in 1834 and Louis-Philippe's refusal to grant Marie her part of the "donation-partage" of his lands (a condition Ferdinand had put in place for the marriage to occur).
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Leopold ultimately married Princess Maria of Savoy-Carignan, second-eldest daughter of Prince Joseph of Savoy-Carignan and his wife Pauline Benedictine de Quélen de Vauguyon, on 16 June 1837[1] in Naples. Leopold and Maria had only one child, Isabella, who died less than a year after her birth in 1838.[1]
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