Maria Anna of Pfalz-Sulzbach
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Maria Anna Josepha Charlotte Amalie von Pfalz-Sulzbach (born June 22, 1722 in Schwetzingen , † April 25, 1790 in Munich ) was Countess Palatine of Sulzbach and, by marriage, Princess of Bavaria .
Life
Maria Anna was a daughter of Hereditary Prince Joseph Karl von Pfalz-Sulzbach (1694–1729) from his marriage to Elisabeth von Pfalz-Neuburg (1693–1728), daughter of Elector Karl III. Philip . Her sisters were the Electress Elisabeth Auguste von Pfalz-Sulzbach and Maria Franziska von Pfalz-Sulzbach .
She married Prince Clemens Franz de Paula of Bavaria (1722-1770) in Mannheim on January 17, 1742 , who was considered the Bavarian Hereditary Prince until his death.
After the death of Elector Maximilian III. Joseph von Bayern 1777, with whom the Bavarian-electoral main line became extinct, Maria Anna appeared as a staunch opponent of the House of Austria, which made claims on Lower Bavaria . Her brother-in-law, the new Elector Karl Theodor , who also had no heir, recognized these claims in a treaty with Austria on January 15, 1778. To preserve the independence of Bavaria and its dynasty of Wittelsbach gained Maria Anna patriots as Johann Georg von Lori , Upper Meier, Kennedy and Count suffering that the presumptive heir to the throne Charles of Birkenfeld interacted, not to be moved from Austria to refrain from Bavaria. Maria Anna turned personally and secretly to Frederick the Great , who was supposed to put a stop to Emperor Joseph II .
On February 6, 1778, in the presence of Maria Anna, Karl von Birkenfeld met ministers Johann Christian von Hofenfels and Nees von Esenbeck and the Prussian ambassador, Count Johann Eustach von Görtz , in the Maxburg and officially protested against Austria's claims to take over and declared the treaty of 15 January 1778 invalid.
Maria Anna secretly married her rent master Andreas André on June 10, 1780, who had served Maria Anna as a courier in the above-mentioned matters and was therefore banned for life by Elector Karl Theodor to the Rieden estate, which belonged to Maria Anna.
Her heart was buried separately and is located in the Chapel of Grace in Altötting .
The life of Maria Anna was dealt with in the novel The Lady with the Velvet Visor by the writer Horst Wolfram Geißler , published in 1931 .
progeny
From her first marriage, Maria Anna had the following children:
- Maria, (* / † 1748)
- Son (* / † 1754)
- Maria Anna, (* / † 1755)
- Son (* / † 1755)
ancestors
| Christian August von Pfalz-Sulzbach (1622–1708) | |||||||||||||
| Theodor Eustach Duke of Palatinate-Sulzbach (1659–1732) | |||||||||||||
| Amalie of Nassau-Siegen (1615–1669) | |||||||||||||
| Joseph Karl von Pfalz-Sulzbach (1694–1729) | |||||||||||||
| Wilhelm I of Hessen-Rotenburg (1648–1725) | |||||||||||||
| Marie Eleonore of Hessen-Rotenburg (1675-1720) | |||||||||||||
| Maria Anna von Löwenstein-Wertheim (1652–1688) | |||||||||||||
| Maria Anna of Pfalz-Sulzbach | |||||||||||||
| Philipp Wilhelm Elector Palatinate (1615–1690) | |||||||||||||
| Charles III Philipp Elector Palatinate (1661–1742) | |||||||||||||
| Elisabeth Amalie of Hessen-Darmstadt (1635–1709) | |||||||||||||
| Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of the Palatinate (1693–1728) | |||||||||||||
| Bogusław Radziwiłł (1620–1669) | |||||||||||||
| Ludwika Karolina Charlotte von Radziwiłł-Birze (1667–1695) | |||||||||||||
| Anna Maria Radziwiłł (1640–1667) | |||||||||||||
literature
- Josef Anton Messmer among others: The Bavarian National Museum. With pictures and plans. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 1868, p. 355f.
- August Rosenlehner: Maria Anna Josepha, Duchess in Baiern . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 196-201.
- Alois Schmid : Maria Anna, Duchess of Bavaria, born Countess Palatinate of Pfalz-Sulzbach. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 181 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Theil: ... When the cannons were fired. Church services, church festivals and church music in the Mannheim court chapel according to the Palatinate court and state calendar. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-2545-3 , p. 140.
Web links
- http://www.herzogin-anna.de/historisches ( Memento from August 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maria Anna of Pfalz-Sulzbach |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maria Anna Josepha Charlotte Amalie von Pfalz-Sulzbach |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Countess Palatine von Sulzbach and by marriage Princess of Bavaria |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1722 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwetzingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1790 |
| Place of death | Munich |