Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1743–1808)

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Maria Elisabeth before 1767 ( Martin van Meytens ?).
Maria Elisabeth as abbess ( Franz old mother ).

Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (born  August 13, 1743 in Vienna , †  September 22, 1808 in Linz ) was a daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany and later Emperor Franz Stephan of Lorraine and the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia Maria Theresa of Austria .

"Coquette of Beauty"

Maria Elisabeth Josepha Johanna Antonia was the sixth child and fifth daughter of her parents. She was considered beautiful but fickle and uninterested. Maria Theresa called her “a coquette of beauty”. Her chief stewardess was Christine-Philippine de Herzelles from 1761–1763 , to whom her brother Joseph II later entrusted the upbringing of his only child, Maria Theresa . It was hoped that an important political marriage could be arranged for her. A connection with King Stanislaus II. August of Poland is said to have failed due to the objection of Empress Catherine II of Russia , one with the widowed King Louis XV. of France from smallpox , which defaced the 24-year-old in 1767.

"Goiter Liesl"

When Maria Theresa died in 1780, Maria Elisabeth, like her sisters Maria Anna and Maria Christine, had to leave Vienna because Joseph II wanted to end the “women’s economy” at court. She became abbess of the aristocratic women's monastery in Innsbruck , which Maria Theresa founded after the death of Emperor Franz I in 1765, so that there would be prayers for the salvation of her husband's soul. Maria Elisabeth was feared in Tyrol because of her sharp tongue. Since the smallpox scars are accompanied by a strong corpulence and a triple goiter , the vernacular called them "Kropferte Liesl". In 1805 she fled from Napoleon's troops to Vienna and then to Linz , where she spent the last years of her life and is buried in the crypt of the Jesuit Church ( Old Cathedral ).

ancestors

Pedigree of Maria Elisabeth of Austria
Great-great-grandparents

Nikolaus Franz von Vaudémont (1609–1670)
⚭ 1634
Claudia of Lorraine (1612–1648)

Emperor
Ferdinand III. (1608–1657)
⚭ 1651
Eleonora of Mantua (1630–1686)

King
Louis XIII (1601–1643)
⚭ 1615
Anna of Austria (1601–1666)

Elector
Karl I. Ludwig (1617–1680)
⚭ 1650
Charlotte von Hessen-Kassel (1627–1686)

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

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

Prince
Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1633–1714)
⚭ 1656
Elisabeth Juliane von Holstein-Norburg (1634–1704)

Albrecht Ernst I. zu Oettingen (1642–1683)

Christine Friederike von Württemberg (1644–1674)

Great grandparents

Duke Karl V. Leopold (1643–1690)
⚭ 1678
Eleanor of Austria (1653–1697)

Philip I of Bourbon (1640–1701)
⚭ 1671
Elisabeth of the Palatinate (1652–1722)

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

Duke Ludwig Rudolf of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1671–1735)
⚭ 1690
Christine Luise von Oettingen (1671–1747)

Grandparents

Duke Leopold Joseph of Lorraine (1679–1729)
⚭ 1698
Élisabeth Charlotte de Bourbon-Orléans (1676–1744)

Emperor Charles VI. (1685–1740)
⚭ 1708
Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1691–1750)

parents

Emperor Franz I Stephan (1708–1765)
⚭ 1736
Maria Theresia (1717–1780)

Maria Elisabeth of Austria

literature

Web links

Commons : Maria Elisabeth von Austria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family tree of the Habsburgs
  2. Helga Peham: Leopold II. Ruler with a wise hand. Styria, Graz 1987, ISBN 3-222-11738-1 , p. 55.
  3. Brigitte Hamann (ed.): The Habsburgs: A biographical lexicon. Vienna 1988, p. 320 f.