Infante Francisco Javier of Spain
Infante Francisco Javier of Spain (15 February 1757 – 10 April 1771) was the youngest son of King Charles III of Spain and younger brother of King Charles IV of Spain and King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies .
Biography
Born in the Royal Palace of Caserta , he was baptized Francisco Javier Antonio Pascual Bernardo Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Julián of Naples and Sicily. His father was Charles VII , King of Naples and of Sicily since 1735. His mother was Maria Amalia of Saxony , daughter of Augustus III of Poland .
In 1759, on the death of his uncle King Ferdinand VI of Spain without children, his parents, his brothers Charles and Gabriel , and his sisters, Maria Luisa and Maria Josefa left for Spain where her father was crowned King Charles III of Spain .
Francisco Javier lost his mother one year later when he was three. He grew up at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez , but died of smallpox on 10 April 1771 at the age of 14.
He was buried at the El Escorial Monastery .[ 1]
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Carlos I , under whom the crowns of Castile and Aragon were united, forming the Kingdom of Spain. Previously, the title Infante had been largely used in the different realms.
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2 consort to an Infanta naturalized as a Spanish Infante
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