Maria Theresia zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

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Princess Maria Theresia zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and her husband Duke Michael von Braganza, 1908

Maria Theresia zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg , full first name Maria Theresia Sophie Pia Anna Melchiora (born January 4, 1870 in Rome , † January 17, 1935 in Vienna ) was a daughter of Prince Charles VI. Heinrich Ernst zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and wife of the then Portuguese pretender to the throne , Duke Michael von Braganza .

Life

Maria Theresia zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg was the fifth of eight children of Prince Karl VI. Heinrich Ernst zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and his second wife Sophie von und zu Liechtenstein (1837–1899), daughter of the ruling Prince Alois II (Liechtenstein) .

On November 8, 1893, the princess married the then Portuguese pretender to the throne, Duke Michael von Braganza, at her family residence at Löwenstein Castle in Kleinheubach . He was born as the cousin of Princess Maria Theresa, since her father, Prince Charles VI. a brother of Adelheid von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg , who was the duke's mother. He lived as a widower and brought 3 children from the previous relationship into the marriage; his father was the long-dead exiled king Michael I of Portugal .

The prelate building of Bronnbach Monastery, former residence of the family

Michael von Braganza served as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army and retired from active service when Portugal entered the First World War . Since October 12, 1917 he held the rank of kuk field marshal lieutenant . From then on he was involved in the supranational Order of Malta . Since he was not allowed to enter Portugal, he lived with his family in the prelate building of Bronnbach Monastery (today Wertheim ), from 1917 mainly on the (no longer existing) New Castle in Seebenstein near Vienna, where Michael von Braganza died in 1927. He was transferred to Bronnbach and buried in front of the choir area of ​​the monastery church of the Assumption of Mary. His wife Maria Theresia died in 1935 at Vienna-Aspern Airport and rests in the Carmelite Church of the Holy Family of Vienna- Döbling .

Children and offspring

Maria Theresia von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, had eight children with Duke Michael von Braganza. They were:

  • Princess Isabel Maria von Braganza (1894–1970) ∞ Franz Joseph von Thurn und Taxis
  • Princess Maria Benedita of Braganza (1896–1971)
  • Princess Mafalda of Braganza (1898–1918)
  • Princess Maria Anna von Braganza (1899–1971) ∞ Karl August von Thurn und Taxis . (She was the mother-in-law of the Gloria Princess von Thurn und Taxis )
  • Princess Maria Antónia of Braganza (1903–1973) ∞ Sidney Ashley Chanler
  • Princess Filippa Maria of Braganza (1905–1990)
  • Prince Duarte Nuno of Braganza (1907–1976), head of the old house of Portugal
  • Maria Adelaide Manuela America Michael Rafaela von Braganza (1912–2012) ∞ Nicolaas Johannes Maria van Uden

On July 31, 1920, Michael von Braganza determined his son Duarte II. Nuno (1907-1976) as his successor as head of the family. His son, Duarte Pius von Braganza (* 1945), is today's (2012) pretender to the throne and head of the House of Braganza. He is the grandson of Princess Maria Theresia zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Facebook website about Bronnbach Abbey and the ducal family
  2. ^ Alois Jahn: Das Haus Habsburg (Volume 2), page 275; Scan from the source to the burial site
  3. ↑ Duke Duarte II. Nuno in the English Wikipedia
  4. ^ Duarte Pius von Braganza in the English Wikipedia
personal data
SURNAME Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Maria Theresa to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Princess Maria Theresia von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German noblewoman, pretender to the throne of Portugal by marriage
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1935
Place of death Vienna