Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Tyrol
Maria Leopoldine of Austria (born April 6, 1632 in Innsbruck , † August 7, 1649 in Vienna ) was an Archduchess of Austria and by marriage Roman-German Empress and Queen of Bohemia and Hungary .
Life
Maria Leopoldine was the youngest daughter of Archduke Leopold V of Austria-Tyrol (1586–1632) from his marriage to Claudia de 'Medici (1604–1648), daughter of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany .
On July 2, 1648, she married in a splendid ceremony in Linz , as his second wife, the widowed Roman-German Emperor Ferdinand III. (1608-1657). She was even more closely related to her husband than his first wife, Maria Anna of Austria .
On August 7, 1649, Maria Leopoldine gave birth to a son in Vienna. As a result of this birth, she died on the same day at the age of 17 after 13 months of marriage. At the beginning of his literary work in 1649, the writer Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg wrote the lament poem addressed to Emperor Ferdinand on the death of Empress Maria Leopoldine.
Maria Leopoldine was buried in the Leopold Crypt of the Capuchin Crypt in Vienna .
progeny
On August 7, 1649, Maria Leopoldine gave birth to a son in Vienna:
- Karl Joseph of Austria (1649–1664), Bishop of Passau, Olmütz and Breslau, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Maria Leopoldine of Austria . No. 240. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1861, p. 52 ( digitized version ).
- Gigi Beutler: The Imperial Crypt , Vienna 1993
- Richard Reifenscheid: The Habsburgs. From Rudolf I to Karl I ; Verlag Styria Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-85001-484-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Eduard Vehse: History of the German courts since the reformation, Volume 14, Hoffmann and Campe, 1852, p. 319
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold: History of the great German war from the death of Gustav Adolf , Volume 2, Liesching, 1843, p. 622
- ^ William Coxe: History of the House of Oestreich von Rudolph von Habsburg up to Leopold the Second Death, 1218–1792, Volume 3, 1818, p. 105
- ^ Hermann Kunisch (Ed.): Literarisches Jahrbuch 11 , Duncker & Humblot, 1971, p. 38
| predecessor | Office | Successor |
|---|---|---|
| Maria Anna of Spain (1606–1646) |
Roman-German Empress July 2, 1648 to August 7, 1649 |
Eleonora Magdalena Gonzaga of Mantua-Nevers |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Tyrol |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maria Leopoldina of Austria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Archduchess of Austria and by marriage the Roman-German Empress and Queen of Bohemia and Hungary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1632 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1649 |
| Place of death | Vienna |