Maria Luisa of Austria-Tuscany (1845–1917)

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Maria Luisa of Austria-Tuscany

Maria Luisa of Austria-Tuscany (full name: Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Filomena Apollonia Tommasa ; born October 31, 1845 in Florence , † August 27, 1917 in Hanau ) was an Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany . She belonged to the House of Habsburg-Lothringen . By marriage she became a princess , or from 1866 princess of Isenburg and Büdingen.

Life

Maria Luisa was the eighth child and the fifth daughter of Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany and his second wife Maria Antonia of Naples-Sicily . She was named after her paternal aunt, Maria Luisa , who had remained unmarried.

Maria Luisa was born in a time of calm and prosperity in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and was lovingly raised in Florence. As a small child, she was confronted with the revolutionary events of 1848. The grand ducal family moved to Gaeta in February 1849 for security reasons . The Grand Duchess Maria Antonia traveled separately from the rest of the family and was accompanied by her two younger children Maria Luisa and Ludwig Salvator . The family stayed in Gaeta for several months and did not return to Florence until July 28, 1849.

After ten relatively quiet years, 14-year-old Maria Luisa and her family had to leave Florence on April 27, 1859, when a popular uprising broke out there, triggered by the raging Sardinian War . Leopold II abdicated on July 21, 1859 in favor of his son Ferdinand IV . As a result, Tuscany merged with the new Kingdom of Italy . Maria Luisa lived with her parents from 1859 to 1865 on the territories of the Habsburg Empire, especially at Brandeis Castle (in today's Bohemian town of Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav ).

On May 31, 1865, Maria Luisa married at the age of 19 in Brandeis, Bohemia, the (from 1866) Prince Karl zu Isenburg and Büdingen in Birstein (1838–1899). The couple had nine children. Like her husband, she lived strictly religiously in an emphatically Catholic family. She was very closely connected to her youngest brother Johann Salvator and invited him to Birstein after he left the imperial family and was expelled from Austria-Hungary .

Maria Luisa survived her husband by 18 years and died during the First World War on August 27, 1917 at the age of 71 in Hanau, so that she did not live to see the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy that soon followed. She found her final resting place in Birstein.

progeny

Maria Luisa and Karl zu Isenburg and Büdingen had nine children:

  • Leopold Wolfgang (born March 10, 1866 - † January 30, 1933), successor to his father as Prince of Isenburg
    • ⚭ 1902 Princess Olga von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1869–1924), daughter of Hermann von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach
    • ⚭ 1924 Countess Marie Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin (1880–1937)
  • Maria Antonia (February 10, 1867 - August 12, 1943)
  • Maria Michaele (born June 24, 1868 - March 19, 1919)
  • Franz Joseph (June 1, 1869 - September 15, 1939), ⚭ 1896 Princess Friederike von Solms-Braunfels (1873–1927)
  • Karl Joseph (* February 18, 1871; † January 6, 1951), ⚭ 1895 morganatic with Bertha Lewis (1872–1930)
  • Viktor Karl (born February 29, 1872; † August 4, 1946), ⚭ 1908 Leontine Rohrer, Baroness von Rombach (1886–1950)
  • Alfonso Maria (born February 6, 1875 - † April 22, 1951), ⚭ 1900 Countess Pauline Marie von Beaufort-Spontin (1876–1955)
  • Marie Elisabeth (* July 18, 1877; † September 28, 1943), ⚭ 1919 Georg Beyer (1880–1941)
  • Adelheid Maria (born October 31, 1878 - † March 4, 1936)

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ GHdA , Princely Houses, Volume XV, Volume 114 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1997, p. 273.
  2. ^ Marie Luise , in Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger , 1988, p. 338.
  3. ^ Leo van de Pas: Marie Luise, Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Tuscany , on genealogics.org
personal data
SURNAME Austria-Tuscany, Maria Luisa von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Filomena Apollonia Tommasa of Austria-Tuscany (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Tuscany
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1917
Place of death Hanau