Maria of Saxony (1796–1865)
Maria Ferdinanda Amalia Xaveria Theresia Josepha Anna Nepomucena Aloysia Johanna Vincentia Ignatia Dominica Franziska de Paula Franziska de Chantal of Saxony (born April 27, 1796 in Dresden ; † January 3, 1865 in Brandeis Castle ) was a princess from the Albertine line of the Wettins and through Marriage of the Grand Duchess of Tuscany .
Life
Maria was the second daughter of Prince Maximilian of Saxony (1759–1838) from his marriage to Caroline (1770–1804), daughter of Duke Ferdinand of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla . She was the older sister of the Saxon kings Friedrich August II. And Johann .
Princess Maria married Grand Duke Ferdinand III in Florence on May 6, 1821 . of Tuscany (1769-1824). The 27-year-old widower decided to marry on his 52nd birthday because his son and successor, Leopold II , in whose marriage to Maria's younger sister Maria Anna , which had now lasted more than three years, had still not fathered a son and was also considered sickly. Mary's wedding to Ferdinand III. made her the mother-in-law of her own sister Maria Anna and the stepmother of Leopold II, who became a close friend of her brother Johann. Mary's marriage remained childless and her husband died after three years of marriage on June 18, 1824, with her sister following her as Grand Duchess of Tuscany.
Even after Maria became a widow, she stayed at the Tuscan court in Florence. In 1859, during the Risorgimento , the grand ducal family lost the throne in Tuscany and went into exile. From then on Maria lived partly in Schlackenwerth in Bohemia, but almost exclusively in Dresden as the guest of her brother Johann and the queen widow Maria Anna . She had a particularly close relationship with her sister Amalia . Maria was the bearer of the Star Cross and the Royal Order of Mary Louisen . She died at Brandeis Castle in today's Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav, which was privately owned by the Austria-Tuscany family, and was buried in Ferdinand's crypt in the Capuchin Crypt in Vienna. Her heart was buried separately and is in the heart crypt of the Habsburgs in the Loreto Chapel of the Augustinian Church in Vienna .
ancestors
| Pedigree of Maria of Saxony | ||||||||
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| Great-great-grandparents |
King |
Emperor |
Elector |
Emperor |
King |
King |
Duke |
Emperor |
| Great grandparents |
King August III. (1696–1763) |
Emperor Charles VII (1697–1745) |
Duke Philip of Parma (1720–1765) |
Emperor Franz I Stephan (1708–1765) |
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| Grandparents |
Elector Friedrich Christian of Saxony (1722–1763) |
Duke Ferdinand von Bourbon (1751–1802) |
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| parents |
Maximilian von Sachsen (1759–1838) |
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Maria of Saxony |
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literature
- Silke Marburg: European nobility: King Johann von Sachsen (1801-1873) and the internal communication of a social formation , Akademie Verlag Berlin 2008, p. 165 ( digitized version )
- Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Kaiserthumes Österreich for the year 1868 , Verlag der GJ Manzschen Buchhandlung, Vienna, p. 4 ( digitized version )
- Karl Heinrich von Hausen: At the highest wedding ceremony of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Toscana and Maria Ferdinanda, Duchess of Saxony , 1821
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Habsburg, Maria Anna Ferdinanda Amalia . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1861, p. 28 ( digital copy ).
- Maria . In: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger , 1988, p. 291
Remarks
- ↑ In the article Maria in Brigitte Hamann (Ed.), Die Habsburger , p. 291, Maria's date of birth is given as May 27, 1795.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Maria of Saxony |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maria Ferdinanda Amalia Xaveria Theresia Josepha Anna Nepomucena Aloysia Johanna Vincentia Ignatia Dominica Franziska de Paula Franziska de Chantal of Saxony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Grand Duchess of Tuscany |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1865 |
| Place of death | Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav |