Elizabeth was the sister of the future king of Sardinia, daughter of Carlo Emanuele di Savoia Carignano and Albertina Maria Cristina of Saxony.
In 1820 he married in Prague 's Habsburg Archduke Ranieri : a political marriage ( the couple met on the eve of the wedding ), given that Austria intended to bind themselves to the restless Savoy. Prince Metternich wrote of her: "The marriage of the Archduke Ranieri with the Princess Carignan took place today. The bride is wonderfully beautiful. E ' High half a head shorter than me, which did not prevent her from having a nice appearance. The face is marked by considerable nobility . The beauty and sweetness of Elizabeth meant that a political marriage would turn into love match: had eight children.
time Archduke Ranieri was viceroy of Lombardy Veneto and so Elizabeth became viceregina. But it was not a position of great prestige. First, the Kaiser did not allow any space for action of the Viceroy, whose role was merely representative. Then we have to add that at the Hapsburg court in Milan was not well seen, indeed snubbed. The Milanese aristocracy could not forgive her for having married a Hapsburg oppressors.
In 1848 Milan went through turmoil anti-Austrian General Radetzky Smothering, Ranieri and Elizabeth fled to Bolzano ( Campofranco Palace in Piazza Walther!). Emperor Franz Joseph did not wanted them in Vienna and the couple lived in Bolzano, virtually in exile. Here Rainier died seven years later, and Elizabeth was left alone. A
Bolzano " gave birth to a pious work which aimed to educate and assist the needy children " to educate and engage women as future service. It 's Institute Elisabethinum . She is credited also the 'institution of Rainerum (in honor of her husband Archduke Ranieri - Rainer, brother of Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria). Dead
his brother King Carlo Alberto (1849), her mother died Maria Adelaide of Sardinia (1855), forgotten by the world, Elizabeth became increasingly private life.
On December 23, 1856 he went to the Institute via the Canal to help her beneficiaries to make the Christmas tree, died two days after Christmas. The burial took place in the "Ambulacro
of the Cathedral of Bolzano, behind the main altar, where we already found the tombstone of her husband, Archduke Ranieri.
The institute was named because of the Canal (1882) to Elizabeth (Elisabethinum) and the name stuck even when he was transferred (1902) as a Runkelstein Castle, where it is today.
( from Bolzano disappearance of E. Frangipane, ed. Praxis)
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