Anna Maria of Saxony
Anna Maria Maximiliane Stephania Karoline Johanna Luisa Xaveria Nepomucena Aloysia Benedicta of Saxony (born January 4, 1836 in Dresden , † February 10, 1859 in Naples ) was a Saxon princess from the Albertine line of the Wettins and hereditary grand duchess of Tuscany by marriage .
Life
Anna Maria was a daughter of King John of Saxony (1801–1873) from his marriage to Amalie Auguste (1801–1877), daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria .
Anna Maria's father was a close friend of the Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany ; their families were linked by several marriages. A marriage between the heir to the throne and a Saxon princess was negotiated early on. Princess Anna Maria married the future Grand Duke Ferdinand IV of Tuscany (1835–1908) in Dresden on November 24, 1856 , whom she had met two years earlier on Ferdinand's bridal trip.
She was the bearer of the Star Cross . Hereditary Grand Duchess Anna Maria died at the age of 23 as a result of the stillbirth of her second child and was buried in the Basilica of Santa Chiara in Naples. Grand Duke Leopold II, Ferdinand's father, abdicated in favor of his son on July 21, 1859, making her widower the last Grand Duke of Tuscany five months after Anna Maria's death.
progeny
From her marriage to Ferdinand, Anna Maria had two daughters:
- Maria Antonietta (1858–1883), abbess of the Theresian women's monastery in Prague
- Daughter (* / † 1859)
ancestors
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Habsburg, Anna Maria (royal princess of Saxony) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1860, p. 154 ( digitized version ).
- Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Kaiserthumes Österreich for the year 1868 , Verlag der GJ Manzschen Buchhandlung, Vienna, p. 4 ( digitized version )
- Andrea Dietrich, Winfried Müller, Martina Schattkowsky: Between tradition and modernity: King John of Saxony 1801–1873 , p. 365 ff. ( Digitized version )
- Silke Marburg: European nobility: King Johann von Sachsen (1801–1873) and the internal communication of a social formation , Akademie Verlag Berlin 2008
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Anna Maria of Saxony |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anna Maria Maximiliane Stephanie Karoline Johanna Luisa Xaveria Nepomucena Aloysia Benedicta of Saxony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon princess, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Tuscany by marriage |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1859 |
| Place of death | Naples |