Philip of Parma de Bourbon ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

The infante Don Carlos, the future Charles III of Spain, was the founder of the Bourbon fortunes in Italy. The eldest son of Philip V's second marriage, he became duke of Parma in 1731 by right of his mother, heiress of the last Farnese dukes; and in 1734, during the War of the Polish Succession, he conquered the Kingdom of Naples-Sicily (Kingdom of the Two Sicilies) for himself. Though the settlement of 1735-38 obliged him to renounce Parma in order to win international recognition as king of Naples-Sicily, Parma was eventually secured for his brother Philip (Don Felipe) under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748--with the proviso, however, that he and his heirs should renounce it in the event that they succeeded to Naples-Sicily or to Spain. Finally, when Don Carlos became king of Spain as Charles III in 1759, he resigned Naples-Sicily to his third son Ferdinand on the express condition that that kingdom and Spain should never be united under one sovereign.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded: Duke of Parma, 1748.

Philip married Elizabeth de France, daughter of Louis XV of France de Bourbon and Maria of Poland Leczinska, on 25 Oct 1739. (Elizabeth de France was born on 14 Aug 1727 in Versailles, Ile de France, France and died on 6 Dec 1759 in Versailles, Ile de France, France.)