Third wife of Carlo Emanuele III King of Sardinia.
If the war of succession of Poland disappointed the expectations of the King of Sardinia, who was forced to give Austria back the territories already occupied and Milan, obtaining only the territories of Tortona, Novara and certain landed estates around Monferrato, it brought him closer to the court of Vienna as a consequence of the marriage, in 1737, of the sovereign and Elisabetta Teresa di Lorena, sister of Francesco Stefano di Lorena (who had married Maria Teresa of Austria in 1736).
Following the Polish war of succession, in exchange for Lorraine which was assigned first to Stanislao Leszczynski and then to France, Francesco was given the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, where the dynasty of the Medici family had died and from where the Hapsburg-Lorraine dynasty.
Carlo Emanuele III, who had already married Anna Maria di Baviera Sultsback (1704-1723) in 1722 and then Polissena Cristina d’Assia Rhinfels (1706-1735), had already, in 1736, asked Vittoria di Soissons, niece of the recently deceased Prince Eugenio di Savoy, of her interest in marriage.
In 1737 the court had sent Count Canale to Vienna as an ambassador, to re-establish diplomatic relations.
With Elisabetta, Carlo Emanuele III, who loved his wife very much, had three children, Carlo Francesco, Maria Vittoria and Benedetto Maria Maurizio, Duke of Chiablese.
Twelve days after the birth of her last son, Benedetto Maria Maurizio, the king’s darling Elisabetta died of puerperal fever on the 3rd of July 1741, in the castle of Venaria Reale.
