Maria Anna of Bavaria (1734–1776)
Maria Anna Josepha Augusta of Bavaria (born August 7, 1734 in Nymphenburg Palace ; † May 7, 1776 in Munich ) was a Bavarian princess by marriage, Margravine of Baden .
Life
Maria Anna was a daughter of the Elector and later Emperor Karl VII. Albrecht von Bayern (1697–1745) from his marriage to Maria Amalie (1701–1756), daughter of Emperor Joseph I.
On July 20, 1755, Princess Maria Anna married the Margrave Ludwig Georg Simpert of Baden-Baden (1702–1761) in Ettlingen . Maria Anna's mother urged her daughter not to declare the renunciation of inheritance that has been common for 300 years in order to establish a female succession in Bavaria. Maria Anna finally bowed to her brother, who wanted to prevent Baden from deriving political advantages from the union, and nevertheless renounced the inheritance. Ludwig Georg had to assure his new brother-in-law that he would adopt a pro-Bavarian policy in the Swabian district and promote trade between spa Bavaria and southwest Germany. On the occasion of the marriage, a commemorative coin was minted in Baden with a bust of the margravine on the obverse and a Bavarian-Baden alliance coat of arms on the reverse.
The marriage remained childless and the main political goal of the parties, the continuation of the Catholic line of Baden-Baden , could not be achieved. The land fell to the Protestant line of Baden-Durlach . After the death of her husband after six years of marriage, Maria Anna returned to Munich and lived at the court of her brother Maximilian III until her death . Together with her sister Maria Antonia and her sister-in-law Maria Anna , she translated Mercier's drama “L'Indigent ” into German in 1773 under the name “Der Nothleidende” .
Maria Anna died at the age of 41 and was buried in the Theatinerkirche in Munich . Her heart was buried separately and is located in the Chapel of Grace in Altötting .
Pedigree
| Pedigree of Maria Anna of Bavaria | ||||||||
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| Great-great-grandparents |
Elector |
Duke |
Jakub Sobieski (1590–1646) |
Henri de la Grange d'Arquien (1613–1707) |
Emperor Ferdinand III. (1608–1657) |
Elector Philipp Wilhelm of the Palatinate (1615–1690) |
Georg Fürst von Calenberg (1582–1641) |
Eduard von der Pfalz (1625–1663) |
| Great grandparents |
Elector |
King |
Emperor Leopold I (1640–1705) |
Johann Friedrich Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1625–1679) |
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| Grandparents |
Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel of Bavaria (1662–1726) |
Emperor Joseph I (1678–1711) |
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| parents |
Emperor Charles VII (1697–1745) |
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Maria Anna of Bavaria |
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literature
- Alois Schmid : Max III. Joseph and the European Powers: The Foreign Policy of the Electorate of Bavaria from 1745–1765. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1987, p. 242 ff.
- Michael Masson: The Royal House of Bavaria: edited genealogically and explained with historical-biographical notes, publ. Of the Hrsg., 1854, p. 89
- Johannes Werner: Ludwig Georg von Baden and his two wives: Anna Maria von Schwarzenberg and Maria Josepha von Bayern - August Georg von Baden and Maria Viktoria von Aremberg . In: Hans Heid (Ed.): The Rastatt Residence in the mirror of the holdings of the historical library of the city of Rastatt . City of Rastatt, Rastatt 2007, ISBN 3-923082-60-6 , pp. 311–329
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anne Fleig: Action-Game-Spaces: Dramas by female authors in the theater of the late 18th century , Königshausen & Neumann, 1999, p. 49
- ↑ Joseph Heinrich Wolf: The House of Wittelsbach: Bavaria's story from sources , GG Zeh, 1847, p. 429
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bavaria, Maria Anna von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bavaria, Maria Anna Josepha von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Margravine of Baden |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1734 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nymphenburg Castle |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1776 |
| Place of death | Munich |