Maria Christina of Saxony (1770-1851)

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Maria Christina of Saxony

Princess Maria Christina of Saxony , full name Maria Christina Albertina Carolina of Saxony (born December 7, 1779 in Dresden , † November 24, 1851 in Paris ) was a member of the house of the Albertine Wettins .

Life

Marie Christine was the eldest daughter of Prince Karl Christian of Saxony and Poland , Duke of Courland and Semgallia (1733–1798) and his wife, Franziska von Corvin-Krasinska (1742–1796), the daughter of Count Stanislaus von Corvin-Krasinski. Her paternal grandparents were August III. , Elector of Saxony and King of Poland and Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria . Her upbringing and schooling were in the hands of several tutors and governesses . She was taught philosophy , geography , literature , music , dance and languages ​​( German , Italian , French , Polish and English ).

Karl Albert
Maria Elisabeth

First marriage

On October 24, 1797, Princess Maria Christina married the Italian Prince Karl Emanuel von Savoyen-Carignan (1770–1800), the only son of Prince Viktor Amadeus II and Princess Josepha de Lorraine-Brionne in Augsburg . By marriage she became Princess of Savoy-Carignan . Karl Emmanuel died in a French prison three years after his marriage. After the early death of her husband, she became regent for their son.

The short marriage resulted in two children:

⚭ 1817 Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Tuscany (1801–1855)
⚭ 1820 Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria (1783–1853), Viceroy of Lombardy-Venetia

Widowed in 1800, she went into exile in Geneva and Paris,

At the age of 2, her son followed his father, who died at an early age, under the title of Prince of Carignan in the French and Piedmontese estates under the tutelage of his mother. She refused to allow her son to be brought up by the King of Sardinia as the alleged heir to the throne of the Savoy and found a Calvinist pastor who introduced the young man to liberal ideas. With the extinction of the main line Savoy, he later inherited the title of King of Sardinia-Piedmont and Duke of Savoy . She is thus the grandmother of King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy .

→ see also: Family list of the House of Savoy

Second marriage

Maria Christina von Sachsen-Curland married in February 1810 1811 in Paris the 7 years younger French prince Jules Maximilien Thibault de Montléart , 6th Marquis de Rumont , 1st Prince de Montléart (1787-1865). This civil wedding was celebrated a few years later in what was then the Parisian church of Notre-Dame-des-Champs on June 1, 1814.

After moving to Vienna, he was raised to the hereditary prince status as Julius Maximilian von Montléart and his wife and descendants in 1822. From this marriage it emerged:

  • Jules Maurice (November 28, 1807 in Avignon - March 16, 1887 in Vienna), legitimized after the marriage of his parents as Prince de Montléart , from 1822 Prince Montléart-Sachsen-Curland.
⚭ 1855 Wilhelmine of Montléart
  • Louise Bathilde de Montléart (January 20, 1809 - 1823), legitimized after the marriage of her parents;
  • Berthe Maria de Montléart (1811-1831)
  • Frédérique Auguste Marie Xavérine Cunégonde Julie de Montléart (November 11, 1814 - June 6, 1885, suicide).
  • Marguerite Julia de Montléart (1822-1832)

In 1824 she and her husband Jules Prince Montléart bought a property in Vienna on Gallitzinberg with a castle in need of renovation .

Death and offspring

Maria Christina Princess Montléart-Sachsen-Curland died on 23/24. November 1851 in Paris, at the age of 72, when her son was King of Sardinia and her daughter, Archduchess of Austria and Viceroy of Lombardy-Veneto.

After the death of her husband on October 19, 1865, their son Moritz bought the property and gave the property to his wife Wilhelmine (1827–1895), who remained childless and became a patron of Vienna- Ottakring .

On April 28, 1895, a grandson of Princess Maria Christina, Archduke Rainer , became the heir to Wilhelmine Montléart's owner of the castle. In the years 1903–1908 the already dilapidated castle was torn down and replaced by the Palais Wilhelminenberg .

Honor

In 1897 the Savoyenstrasse in Vienna- Hernals (17th district) was named after Maria Christina von Sachsen. The Wilhelminenspital , Wilhelminenberg , Wilhelminenstrasse and Montleartstrasse in Ottakring and Curlandgasse in Hernals are named after her daughter-in-law Wilhelmine .

References and literature

  1. ↑ fr: Marie-Christine de Saxe
  2. ↑ en: Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770-1851)
  3. ^ A b Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien, quoted in Montleart in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  4. ^ Moritz and his wife Wilhelmine are Prince (in) Montléart according to the Austrian Biographical Lexicon
  5. ^ Wilhelminenberg Castle. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)

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personal data
SURNAME Maria Christina of Saxony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maria Christina of Savoy-Carignan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the house of the Albertine Wettins, as well as Princess of Savoy-Carignan and regent
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1851
Place of death Paris