Theresia Emanuela of Bavaria

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Princess Theresia Emanuela of Bavaria, contemporary oil painting by an unknown painter
Princess Theresia Emanuela of Bavaria, engraving by Joseph Anton Zimmermann
Title page of the funeral sermon, by Father Daniel Stadler SJ

Theresia Emanuela von Bayern (born July 22, 1723 in Munich ; † March 27, 1743 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Bavarian princess from the Wittelsbach family .

Life

She was born as the only daughter of the Imperial Field Marshal Ferdinand Maria Innozenz of Bavaria and his wife Anna Maria (1693–1751), a child of Count Palatine Philipp Wilhelm August von Pfalz-Neuburg . Theresia Emanuela's grandfather was the Bavarian Elector Maximilian II Emanuel .

Her childless brother, Clemens Franz de Paula of Bavaria, was considered to be the Kur-Bavarian Hereditary Prince from 1745 until his death in 1770 and, after the death of the likewise childless Elector Maximilian III. Joseph von Bayern succeeded him. From 1742 he was married to Maria Anna von Pfalz-Sulzbach , a daughter of Joseph Karl von Pfalz-Sulzbach and granddaughter of the Palatine Elector Karl III. Philip .

On January 29, 1742, Theresia Emanuela von Mannheim arrived in Frankfurt via Darmstadt to take part in the imperial coronation of her uncle Charles VII on February 12, 1742. The princess stayed in the city until her death. At the coronation in Frankfurt Cathedral , she wore the train of Empress Maria Amalia , together with her sister-in-law Maria Anna von Pfalz-Sulzbach and her sister Maria Franziska von Pfalz-Sulzbach .

On October 15, 1742, she and her cousin Theresia Benedicte von Bayern , together with the imperial couple, celebrated their name day and they all attended the service in the Carmelite Church in Frankfurt .

Princess Theresia Emanuela was single and died at the age of 19 in Frankfurt from the "child's pains", which means either chickenpox or smallpox at a young age. According to the newly opened history hall (Volume 6, 1743, p. 802) it was the smallpox (peeling).

She was buried in the Carmelite Church in Heidelberg , in the crypt of her brother's in-laws; after the abolition of the monastery, her coffin was transferred to St. Michael's Church in Munich in 1805 .

Her cousin Theresia Benedicte von Bayern died two days later, also in Frankfurt, of the same disease; she was also buried in the Carmelite Church in Heidelberg.

Emperor Karl VII mourned both of them in a letter dated March 29, 1743, to his brother, Bishop Johann Theodor of Bavaria .

There is a portrait engraving of Princess Theresia Emanuela by the artist Joseph Anton Zimmermann (1705–1797) and an oil portrait by an unknown painter.

A funeral sermon by the Jesuit Daniel Stadler , given at the funeral ceremony in Frankfurt Cathedral, appeared in print. In it he praises the deep piety of the princess and the composure with which she faced death as a 19-year-old girl. He leads u. a. from the fact that a purse with 100 guilders was found in her personal estate, with a slip of paper with the following inscription:

“ With this money, I want people to pay off after my death whatever I owe little things now and then. The rest is given partly to the poor, partly let me read H. Masses for me. Please one more time to exactly fulfill this will of mine. "

- Daniel Stadler, funeral speech, 1743, p. 14

swell

  • Christian Haeutle: Genealogy of the illustrious parent company Wittelsbach , Munich, 1870, p. 78; (Digital scan)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann David Jung: Merck-worthy diary of both imperial majesties, most solemn coronation , volume 2, p. 13, Frankfurt am Main, 1743; (Digital scan)
  2. ^ Moritz Georg Weidmann: European State Secretarius who reports the latest events impartially and judges them sensibly , Volume 74, p. 134; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Johann David Jung: Merck-worthy diary of both imperial majesties, most solemn coronation , volume 2, p. 123, Frankfurt am Main, 1743; (Digital scan)
  4. ^ Historischer Verein von Oberbayern: Upper Bavarian Archive for Patriotic History , Volume 56, p. 13, 1912; (Detail scan)
  5. ^ Johann Joseph von Khevenhüller-Metsch : From the time of Maria Theresa , Volume 1, p. 133, Leipzig / Vienna, 1907; (Digital scan)
  6. ↑ (digital scan)
  7. ^ Das Bayerland (magazine), Volume 3, p. 35, 1892, (detail scan 1) ; (Detail scan 2)
  8. ^ JB Schmid .:  Zimmermann, Joseph Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 278-280.
  9. ↑ Birgit Boge, Ralf Georg Bogner: Oratio funebris , 1999, p. 323, ISBN 9042007486 ; (Digital scan)
  10. ↑ Digital scan of the funeral sermon
personal data
SURNAME Theresia Emanuela of Bavaria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess of Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1743
Place of death Frankfurt am Main