Carlo II di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart
Prince of Montemiletto[a]
Prince of Achaea
(titular)
Reign21 February 1796 – 19 July 1823
PredecessorRestaino di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart
SuccessorFrancesco di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart
Born7 March 1756
Naples
Died19 July 1823 (aged 67)
Naples
SpouseMaria Antonia Carafa Cantelmo Stuart
IssueMaria Camilla di Tocco
Teresa di Tocco
Maria Carmela di Tocco
Leonardo di Tocco
Gennaro di Tocco
Maria Maddalena di Tocco
Giovanni Battista di Tocco
Francesco di Tocco
DynastyTocco
FatherRestaino di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart
MotherMaria Camilla Cybo Malaspina

Don Carlo II di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart[b] (7 March 1756 – 19 July 1823), or Carlo di Tocco for short, was an 18th/19th-century Italian noble, serving as the Prince of Montemiletto and the titular Prince of Achaea, among other titles, from the death of his father Restaino di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart in 1796 to his own death in 1823. In addition to holding various fiefs throughout Italy, Carlo also rose to prominent positions within the Kingdom of Naples and its successor state, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In 1808, he came one of the earliest knights of the Royal Order of the Two-Sicilies and from 1821 to 1823, he served as a Councillor of State in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Biography

Carlo II di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart was born in Naples on 7 March 1756, as the eldest son of Restaino di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart, Prince of Montemiletto and titular Prince of Achaea,[2] and the Italian noblewoman Maria Camilla Cybo Malaspina, Princess of Massa and Carrara.[3] Upon Restaino's death on 21 February 1796, Carlo inherited his father's titles, including not only Montemiletto but also various other fiefs throughout Italy, and claims.[4]

In 1798, Carlo lost the fief of Refrancore due to Piedmont in northern Italy being annexed by the French First Republic in the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars.[2] Refrancore was one of the first fiefs the Tocco family had come to possess in Italy following their exile from their lands in Greece, having been granted to Carlo's ancestor Leonardo IV Tocco in the 16th century.[5][6] Carlo rose to high positions in the Kingdom of Naples and its later successor state, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. On 22 October 1808, Carlo became a knight of the Royal Order of the Two-Sicilies, which had been founded just a few months prior. Carlo served as a Councellor of State in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from 23 July 1821 to 14 May 1823.[1]

Carlo married the Italian noblewoman Maria Antonia Carafa Cantelmo Stuart on 2 June 1779 in Naples. She predeceased her husband, committing suicide in Florence on 29 January 1823.[7]

Carlo died on 19 July 1823 in Naples.[2]

Family

With his wife Maria Antonia Carafa Cantelmo Stuart, Carlo II di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart had eight children:[8]

Notes

  1. ^ Carlo's full titles among the Italian nobility were Prince of Montemiletto, Duke of Apice, Duke of Popoli, Count of Monteaperti, Baron of Fontanarosa, Montefalcione, Grumo, Roccavallescura, Serra and Pratola.[1]
  2. ^ By the time Carlo II di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart became the head of the Tocco family there had been three previous heads of the Tocco family with the name Carlo: Carlo I Tocco, Carlo II Tocco and Carlo III Tocco. Through this it follows that he could accurately be considered Carlo IV Tocco. Rather than being enumerated as Carlo IV, the later Tocchi enumerated themselves as princes of Montemiletto, Carlo II being the second Carlo of the Tocco family to be prince of Montemiletto, after his matrilineal descendant Carlo de Tocco.

References

  1. ^ a b Shamà 2013, pp. 63–64.
  2. ^ a b c Shamà 2013, p. 63.
  3. ^ Shamà 2013, pp. 62.
  4. ^ Shamà 2013, pp. 62–63.
  5. ^ Shamà 2013, p. 42.
  6. ^ Osswald 2018, p. 839.
  7. ^ Shamà 2013, p. 64.
  8. ^ Shamà 2013, pp. 69–71.
  9. ^ a b c Shamà 2013, p. 69.
  10. ^ a b Shamà 2013, p. 70.
  11. ^ a b c Shamà 2013, p. 71.

Bibliography

Carlo II di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart Tocco dynastyBorn: 7 March 1756 Died: 19 July 1823 Titles in pretence Preceded byRestaino di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart — TITULAR — Prince of Achaea 1796–1823 Succeeded byFrancesco di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart
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