Maria Luise von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

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Marie von Hohenzollern, Countess of Flanders
Princess Marie von Hohenzollern at the time of her wedding, 1867

Marie Luise Alexandra Karoline von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (born November 17, 1845 in Sigmaringen ; † November 26, 1912 in Brussels ) was a princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and, by marriage, as Countess of Flanders, Princess of Belgium . She is a great-great-grandmother of the current Belgian King Philippe .

Life

Marie was the youngest child of the Hohenzollern prince and Prussian Prime Minister Karl Anton (1811–1885) and his wife of Princess Josephine von Baden (1813–1900). As a child, Marie and her family moved to the Jägerhof Palace in Düsseldorf , where her father resided as the Prussian division commander.

On April 25, 1867, she married Prince Philip of Belgium (1837-1905), Count of Flanders, third son of the Belgian King Leopold I. The wedding was performed in Berlin's Hedwig Church by the Prince-Bishop of Wroclaw Heinrich Förster .

The French emperor wrongly suspected that Marie was influencing the Belgian royal family to support her brother Leopold's candidacy for the Spanish throne, which was disapproved by France . Her husband's niece, the Austrian Crown Princess Stephanie , later reported about Marie: “ I also took my aunt dearly to my heart and learned to admire her more and more. This excellent wife and exemplary mother knew how to raise her children to be righteous men and wise women, worthy of their name, rank, and position. "

Maria Luise died in Belgium at the age of 67. She was buried in the Church of Our Lady (Laeken) in Brussels.

progeny

Marie's marriage, which was reportedly happy by all reports, had the following children:

⚭ 1896 Philippe Emmanuel Maximilien Marie Eudes d'Orléans, duc de Vendôme (1872–1931)
⚭ 1894 Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern (1868–1919)
  • Albert I (1875–1934), King of the Belgians
⚭ 1900 Duchess Elisabeth Gabriele in Bavaria (1876–1965)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Yearbooks for Social and Political Sciences, Volume 4 , p. 449 ( digitized version )
  2. http://pom.bbaw.de/exist/servlet/JDG/scripts/browse.xql?id=JRE0862II3&year=
  3. http://www.gaga.net/pgproj/a32e6e58/a32e6e58_TEI.txt