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A member of the House of Bourbon, he was a Prince of Naples and Sicily by birth. He was the ninth child of his parents and their fourth son. At the time of his birth, he was third in line to the throne after his brother Prince Francis, then Duke of Calabria and Prince Gennaro.
In 1734 the Spanish prince Don Carlos de Borbón (later King Charles III) conquered Naples and Sicily, which were then governed by the Spanish Bourbons as a separate kingdom. During the 18th century the Bourbon kings, in the spirit of “enlightened despotism,” sponsored reforms to rectify social and political injustices and to modernize the ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Joseph thus presided over Naples in the best traditions of Enlightened absolutism, doubling the revenue of the crown from seven to fourteen million ducats in his brief two-year reign while all the time seeking to lighten the burdens of his people rather than increase them.
- 6 June 1808 – 11 December 1813
- Carlo Buonaparte
- Ferdinand VII
- Letizia Ramolino
When the United States declared independence from Great Britain in 1776, the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily were independent and sovereign states. After 1734 they shared the same ruler and were governed by the Bourbon royal family.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Princes of Sicily. The title Prince of Sicily and the use of the style "Royal Highness" has generally been restricted to the following persons: the legitimate sons of a Sovereign of Sicily, the legitimate male line descendants of a Sovereign of Sicily.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Expedition of the Thousand, campaign undertaken in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi that overthrew the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Naples) and permitted the union of southern Italy and Sicily with the north.
Nearly half of the world's Italians - in Italy and its diaspora - trace their roots to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The last dynasty to rule Sicily (and almost half of the Italian peninsula) as a sovereign kingdom is a branch of the royal houses of France and Spain.
