Gertrude of Austria-Tuscany

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Oil painting by Archduchess Gertrud

Gertrud Maria Gisela Elisabeth Ignatia of Austria (born November 19, 1900 in Wallsee ; † December 20, 1962 in Ravensburg ) was an Archduchess of Austria until 1918 .

Life

Gertrud and Hedwig in costumes for a festival in 1908
Gertrud with her parents and siblings, Gertrud on her father's lap on the right (photo for the public press around 1905)
Gertrud at the age of three, painted by Alois Schornböck

Gertrud was a daughter of Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria-Tuscany and Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria and thus a granddaughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary . She was christened Gertrude Maria Gisela Elisabeth Ignatia on November 23, 1900 in the castle chapel of Wallsee in the presence of the emperor. Godmother was Princess Gisela of Bavaria , her mother's sister. Your educator was Elsa Koehler .

The court painter Alois Schornböck made a portrait of the three-year-old Gertrud in 1903. The oval oil painting is privately owned. In August 1908, Gertrud and her siblings performed a festival for the Emperor's birthday in his summer villa in Ischl. The First Communion celebrated Gertrude and her sister Marie in December 1911. 1930 Gertrud was instrumental in bringing about the book "Letters Emperor Franz Josef to his mother 1838-1872" involved, which issued Franz Schnürer.

She married Georg Graf von Waldburg zu Zeil and Hohenems , the widower of her sister Ella , on December 29, 1931 in Bad Ischl , Austria. She then bore the name Gertrud Countess of Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg . The couple had two children together.

After marrying her family, Gertrud lived at Syrgenstein Castle . Her archive with documents and letters from the imperial family was used by historians and authors such as Egon Caesar Conte Corti and Richard Sexau and appreciated in the works. Archduchess Marie Valerie's diary was also located in this archive, and is specifically mentioned in an acknowledgment by Egon Caesar Corti. Letters from Emperor Franz Joseph to his mother were also kept in this archive.

Gertrud died on December 20, 1962 at the age of 62 in Ravensburg, Upper Swabia .

useful information

In the letters of Emperor Franz Joseph to Katharina Schratt you can read: I also found Valerie very comfortable in her bed. The newborn little Gertrude is perhaps a little less ugly than the newborn children ...

Marie Valerie wrote a little comedy for two people in 1884 under the guidance of her teacher Heinrich Reinhart. The one-act play was called Adelheid and Gertrud and was performed by Marie Valerie herself and her cousin Marie Louise von Larisch-Wallersee . The figure of this Gertrud later inspired her to name her child.

Trivia

It was ranked 1095 in 1961 in a hypothetical British line of succession that ignores the exclusion of Catholics as set out in the Act of Settlement . The main state archive in Stuttgart contains a telegram in which Gertrud is also mentioned.

children

  • Sophie (* December 5, 1932), ∞ Wessel Freiherr von Loë (* 1928)
  • Joseph (* April 12, 1934), ∞ Maria Benedikta von Redwitz (* April 12, 1937)

literature

  • Marie Valerie: The diary of the favorite daughter of Empress Elisabeth 1878-1899. Publisher: Piper; Edition: 4 (November 2008) Eds. Martha Schad and Horst Schad ISBN 978-3-492-24364-3
  • Martha Schad: Empress Elisabeth and her daughters (paperback) Publisher: Piper; Edition: 10th edition (April 2006) ISBN 978-3-492-22857-2
  • The family album of Emperor Franz Joseph and Elisabeth By Gabriele Praschl-Bichler (page 127)
  • Norbert Nemec: Archduchesses in Austria: position and sphere of activity from 1848–1945 - page 212
  • Gertrud , in: Brigitte Hamann : Die Habsburger - ein biografisches Lexikon , Verlag Piper, Vienna 1988 ISBN 3-492-03163-3 , p. 157

Press reports

Mentions

  • Egon Caesar Conte Corti: Elisabeth, "the strange woman". Based on the empress's written estate, her daughter's diaries and other unpublished diaries and documents . Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-8289-0548-X (former title: Sissi - happiness and tragedy of a great empress )
  • C. Arnold McNaughton: The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy, in 3 volumes (London, UK: Garnstone Press, 1973), volume 1 page 375.
  • Egon Caesar Corti, Hans Hugo Sokol: The old emperor, Franz Joseph I. 1955- page vi
  • Richard Sexau : Prince and Doctor, Dr. med. Duke Carl Theodor in Bavaria: fate between Wittelsbach and Habsburg. Styria Verlag, Graz 1963- page xii
  • Egon Caesar Corti, Hans Hugo Sokol: The old emperor, Franz Joseph I., from the Berlin congress until his death . Page 29

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Court and Society. In:  Sport & Salon , November 22, 1900, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sus
  2. ^ Habsburg9 (accessed October 23, 2009)
  3. ^ Newspaper Das Vaterland from November 23, 1900
  4. ↑ Martha Schad: Empress Elisabeth and her daughters. Piper Verlag, 1999. Page 154.
  5. ^ Salon and Sport of November 28, 1908
  6. ↑ Martha Schad: Empress Elisabeth and her daughters. Piper Verlag, 1999. Page 145.
  7. ↑ Martha Schad: Empress Elisabeth and her daughters. Piper Verlag, 1999. Page 151.
  8. ^ Franz Schnürer: Letters from Emperor Franz Joseph I to his mother 1838–1872 . Munich: Kösel & Pustet. 1930
  9. ↑ Egon Caesar Corti (Conte): Elisabeth, the strange woman: after the written estate of the Empress ... - page vii (1953)
  10. ↑ Egon Caesar Corti, Hans Hugo Sokol - 1960 - 510 pages Kaiser Franz Joseph Mention of the archive: Archives of Countess Gertrud von Waldburg- Zeil, born Archduchess of Austria, Syrgenstein Castle - page xi
  11. ^ Egon Caesar Corti, Hans Hugo Sokol: The old emperor, Franz Joseph I. 1955- page vi
  12. ↑ Richard Sexau: Prince and Doctor, Dr. med. Duke Carl Theodor in Bavaria: fate between Wittelsbach and Habsburg . Styria Verlag , Graz 1963- page xii
  13. ↑ The old emperor, Franz Joseph I, from the Berlin Congress to his death by Egon Caesar Corti (Conte), Hans Hugo Sokol. Page 29
  14. ^ Letters from Emperor Franz Joseph I to his mother, 1838–1872 By Franz Joseph I (Emperor of Austria), Sophie (consort of Franz Karl, archduke of Austria), Franz Schnürer
  15. ^ Franz Joseph I (Emperor of Austria), Jean Bourgoing, Katharina Schratt: Letters from Emperor Franz Joseph to Frau Katharina Schratt 1949 (page 408)
  16. ↑ Marie Valerie of Austria: the diary of the Empress's favorite daughter ... Ed. Horst Heinrich Schad - 1998 - page 57
  17. ↑ British Succession to the Throne, as of 1961
  18. ↑ Stuttgart Main State Archives

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personal data
SURNAME Austria-Tuscany, Gertrud von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Habsburg-Lothringen, Gertrud; Waldburg-Zeil, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archduchess of Austria (until 1918)
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallsee
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1962
Place of death Ravensburg