Maria Christina of Saxony (1735–1782)

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Maria Christina of Saxony, portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour , oil on canvas, 1763

Maria Christina Anna Theresia Salomea Eulalia Franziska Xaveria of Saxony and Poland (* February 12, 1735 in Warsaw , † November 19, 1782 in Brumath ) was an Electoral Saxon-Polish princess who came from the Albertine line of the Wettiner dynasty and later became a star cross and abbess of the Free worldly imperial monastery in Remiremont .

Life

Maria Christina was the daughter of the Elector and King August III. of Saxony and Poland (1696–1763) and his wife, Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (1699–1757), daughter of Emperor Joseph I and Princess Amalia Wilhelmine of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . Her paternal grandparents were Elector and King August II the Strong and Princess Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth . The parents attached great importance to a good upbringing of their children, also for the princesses. Maria Christina received lessons in Latin , French , Polish , philosophy , geography , religion , drawing , music and dance .

During the tenure of Princess Anne Charlotte de Lorraine (at Luneville, Lorraine, France 1714 - at Mons, Belgium 1773), Maria Christina was elected coadjutor in 1764 with the right of succession (as abbess). The election was unanimous, which is not surprising, given that 45,000 guilders had flowed from Vienna and Dresden to the canons and canons in Remiremont who were eligible to vote. After the death of the ailing predecessor Anne Charlotte de Lorraine, who was 59 years old when Maria Christina was elected, Princess Maria Christiana assumed the office of abbess in Remiremont in November 1773. As princess abbess in Remiremont, she had a seat and vote in the Reichstag , all rights and duties of an imperial princess (such as lower jurisdiction , tax law , legislation , coinage and military succession ), and enjoyed immunity from secular violence .

Princess Maria Christina died on November 19, 1782 in Brumath, in the castle, today's Protestant church, and was buried in the crypt at Remiremont, Departement des Vosges.

ancestors

Pedigree of Maria Christina of Saxony
Great-great-grandparents

Elector
Johann Georg II. (1613–1680)
⚭ 1638
Magdalena Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1612–1687)

King
Friedrich III. (1609–1670)
⚭ 1643
Sophie Amalie von Braunschweig-Calenberg (1628–1685)

Erdmann August von Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1615–1651)
⚭ 1641
Sophie von Brandenburg-Ansbach (1614–1646)

Duke
Eberhard III. (1614–1674)
⚭ 1637
Anna Katharina Dorothea von Salm-Kyrburg (1614–1655)

Emperor
Ferdinand III. (1608–1657)
⚭ 1631
Maria Anna of Spain (1606–1646)

Elector
Philipp Wilhelm of the Palatinate (1615–1690)
⚭ 1653
Elisabeth Amalia of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635–1709)

Duke
Georg (1582–1641)
⚭ 1617
Anna Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt (1601–1659)

Eduard von der Pfalz (1625–1663)
⚭ 1645
Anna Gonzaga (1616–1684)

Great grandparents

Elector Johann Georg III. (1647–1691)
⚭ 1666
Anna Sophie of Denmark and Norway (1647–1717)

Margrave Christian Ernst of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1644–1712)
⚭ 1671
Sophie Luise of Württemberg (1642–1702)

Emperor Leopold I (1640–1705)
⚭ 1676
Eleonore Magdalene von der Pfalz (1655–1720)

Duke Johann Friedrich von Braunschweig-Calenberg (1625–1679)
⚭ 1668
Benedicta Henriette von der Pfalz (1652–1730)

Grandparents

King August II (1670–1733)
⚭ 1693
Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671–1727)

Emperor Joseph I (1678–1711)
⚭ 1699
Wilhelmine Amalie von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1673–1742)

parents

King August III. (1696–1763)
⚭ 1719
Maria Josepha of Austria (1699–1757)

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