Maria Anna of Savoy

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Empress Maria Anna of Austria

Maria Anna , Princess of Savoy (full name Maria Anna Ricciarda Carolina Margherita Pia * September 19, 1803 in Rome , † May 4, 1884 in Prague ) was the wife of Ferdinand I from 1835 to 1848 Empress of Austria .

Life

Maria Anna, born on September 19, 1803 in the Palazzo Colonna in Rome, was the daughter of King Victor Emanuel I of Sardinia-Piedmont and the Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este . She had a twin sister, Maria Theresa of Savoy , who later became the short-term Duchess of Parma. The two princesses were baptized by Pope Pius VII on September 20, 1803. Her godparents were her maternal grandparents, Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria-Este and Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este . In the Museo di Roma , baptism is depicted on a painting.

On February 12, 1831, Maria Anna married her second cousin, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, by procuration in Turin and on February 27, 1831 personally in the chamber chapel of the Hofburg in Vienna . Archduke Cardinal Rudolph performed the wedding in Vienna . At 27, Maria Anna was considered "elderly" and therefore not particularly demanding, and also very pious and devoted to God.

With her husband's accession to the throne as Emperor Ferdinand I in March 1835, Maria Anna became Empress of Austria, and on September 12, 1836, she was crowned Queen of Bohemia in Prague . Although she never learned German well, preferring to speak French, she became very popular in her new home. Every year on July 26th there was a festival on the occasion of their name celebration. She was very supportive of her husband, who was almost unable to rule due to his illness, and mastered her fate at his side with an admirable demeanor, so she called herself her husband's nurse.

During the unrest of the March Revolution in 1848 , Maria Anna distanced herself from Metternich's system in good time with the consent of Archduchess Sophie . However, she later advocated tougher crackdown on the revolution. She also had a decisive influence on her husband that he abdicated in December 1848, so that the only 18-year-old Franz Joseph could ascend the imperial throne. After his abdication, Ferdinand I and his wife withdrew from Vienna to Prague and Bohemia. Maria Anna was very involved in charities.

Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss' father and son dedicated their own pieces to the Empress, the best known being the Annen Polka, which was premiered on July 24, 1852 in the Vienna Prater . In 1862 the Mariannengasse in Vienna- Alsergrund (9th district) was named after her. In Graz the Annenstraße bears her name.

After her death in May 1884, Maria Anna, whose marriage remained childless, was buried in the Capuchin Crypt in Vienna , like her husband, who had already died in 1875 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Maria Anna of Savoy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Noel S. McFerran: A Jacobite Gazetteer - Rome, Museo di Roma
  2. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Habsburg, Maria Anna Karolina Pia . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1861, p. 28 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b Martin Mutschlechner: Ferdinand: An " industrial accident " in the Habsburg house
  4. ^ Maria Anna , In: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger , 1988, p. 302.
  5. ^ R. Lorenz:  Maria Anna, Empress of Austria. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 86.
  6. ↑ Maria Anna , In: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger , 1988, p. 303.
predecessor Office Successor
Karoline Auguste of Bavaria Empress of Austria
1835–1848 		Elisabeth in Bavaria
personal data
SURNAME Maria Anna of Savoy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maria Anna Carolina Pia of Savoy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Empress of Austria
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1884
Place of death Prague