Louise Caroline de Mérode

Louise de Mérode From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Louise de Mérode Princess della Cisterna e Belriguardo Spouse(s) Carlo Emanuele dal Pozzo, 5th Prince della Cisterna

Issue Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo Beatrice Giuseppa dal Pozzo Full name Louise Caroline Ghislaine de Mérode Father Count Werner de Mérode Mother Countess Victoire van Spangen van Uyternesse Born 22 May 1819 Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium

Died 1 March 1876 (aged 56) Turin, Kingdom of Italy

Louise de Mérode (Louise Caroline Ghislaine; 22 May 1819 – 1 March 1868) was a member of the house of Mérode and Princess della Cisterna by marriage. She was the mother of Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Queen of Spain. [edit] Biography Born in Brussels she was the eldest of seven children born to Count Werner de Mérode and Countess Victoire van Spangen van Uyternesse. Her younger sister Antoinette de Merode was the future wife of Charles III, Prince of Monaco. On 28 September 1846 at Loverval (Belgium) she married Carlo Emanuele dal Pozzo, Prince della Cisterna, an Italian nobleman and one of the few aristocratic families in the Kingdom of Sardinia to bear the title of "prince" as a nobleman. It was a double wedding with her younger sister, Antoinette. Cisterna had been exiled from Sardinia in 1821 having conspired against Vittorio Emanuele I but the couple returned to Turin in 1848. Her daughter married Prince Amadeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, son of Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia and Adelaide of Austria and brother of the future Umberto I of Italy. At the death of her husband in 1864 her daughter inherited the prestigious Pozzo titles and passed them onto her son. Louise herself died at the Palazzo dal Pozzo della Cisterna in Turin.