Maria Annunziata of Austria

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Archduchess Maria Annunziata
Archduchess Maria Annunziata with her fiancé, Duke Siegfried in Bavaria, 1902

Maria Annunziata Adelheid Theresia Michaela Karoline Luise Pia Ignatia (born July 31, 1876 in Reichenau , † April 8, 1961 in Vaduz ) was an Archduchess of Austria .

Life

Maria Annunziata was a daughter of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria and his third wife, the Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal . In the family Maria Annunziata was always called "Miana". She was named after her father's second wife.

From 1894 to 1918 Maria Annunziata was abbess of the Theresian noble women's monastery on the Hradschin in Prague .

Miana was briefly engaged to Duke Siegfried in Bavaria in 1902 , the eldest son of Duke Max Emanuel , a brother of Empress Elisabeth . However, she broke off the engagement after a trip to England together, as Siegfried showed signs of a mental disorder.

In addition to her mother, Maria Annunziata was the "First Lady" at the Viennese court of her uncle Emperor Franz Joseph after his wife Empress Elisabeth was murdered. In this role she took on several patronages and was high protector of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in Austria. The Annunziatakloster in Furth near Maria-Anzbach was named after her in 1900 .

Her eldest half-brother was the heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand (murdered in 1914), and her second half-brother Otto was the father of the last Emperor Karl I. Maria Annunziata was important for Charles's marriage to Zita von Bourbon-Parma . So she invited her 21-year-old nephew to the Bohemian spa town of Franzensbad in the summer of 1908 , where Karl first got to know 16-year-old Zita better. After the couple married, Maria Annunziata lived very often in Zita's family, including later in exile.

Maria Annunziata remained unmarried and died on April 8, 1961 at the age of 84 in Vaduz , Liechtenstein . She was buried in the princely tomb there.

literature

Web links

Commons : Maria Annunziata von Österreich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Nemec: Archduchess Maria Annunziata (1876-1961): the unknown niece of Emperor Franz Joseph I. Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78456-2 ( google.at [accessed December 28, 2018]) .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Maria Annunziata , in: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger , 1988, p. 304.
  3. ↑ Hellmut Andics : Die Frauen der Habsburg , 1997, ISBN 3-453-07034-8 , p. 413 f. and 419.
personal data
SURNAME Maria Annunziata of Austria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maria Annunziata Adelheid Theresia Michaela Karoline Luise Pia Ignatia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archduchess of Austria
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenau
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1961
Place of death Vaduz