Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Noble person
1797 – 1870
Who was Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany?
Leopold II of Tuscany was Grand Duke of Tuscany.
He married twice; first to Maria Anna of Saxony, and after her death in 1832, to Maria Antonia of the Two-Sicilies. By the latter, he begat his eventual successor, Ferdinand. Leopold was recognized contemporarily as a liberal monarch, authorizing the Tuscan Constitution of 1848, and allowing a degree of free press.
The Grand Duke was deposed briefly by a provisional government in 1849, only to be restored the same year with the assistance of Austrian troops, who occupied the state until 1855. Leopold attempted a policy of neutrality with regard to the Second Italian War of Independence, but was expelled by a bloodless coup on 27 April 1859, just before the beginning of the war. The Grand Ducal family left for Bologna, in Papal territory. Tuscany was occupied by soldiers of Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia for the duration of the conflict.
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- Born
- Oct 3, 1797
Florence - Parents
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Lived in
- Florence
- Died
- Jan 29, 1870
Rome
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on July 23, 2013
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