Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1835–1840)
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (27 October 1835 – 5 February 1840), was by birth an Archduchess of Austria and member of the House of Habsburg.
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Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1837. | |
Born | Vienna, Austria | 27 October 1835
Died | 5 February 1840 4) Vienna, Austria | (aged
Burial | Imperial Crypt, Vienna |
Father | Archduke Franz Karl of Austria |
Mother | Princess Sophie of Bavaria |
She was the fourth child and only daughter of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria and his wife, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife Caroline of Baden.
Life
Named in honor of her paternal aunt Maria Anna of Savoy, who in March 1835 married Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, she was baptized with the names of Maria Anna Karolina Annunziata Johanna Josepha Gabriela Theresa Katharina Margaretha Philomena,[1] although in the family she was called Ännchen.
At birth, she seemed to be robust but soon she started to show signs of epilepsy,[lower-alpha 1] finally dying aged 4 after a violent seizure.[3] She was buried in the Ferdinand Vault at the Imperial Crypt, Vienna.
Ancestry
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Notes
- Epilepsy was run among the descendants of Emperor Leopold II.[2]
References
- Kais. kön. priv. Bothe von und für Tirol und Vorarlberg, No 50, 22 June 1840, Innsbruck, p. 197.
- Hans Bankl: Die kranken Habsburger: Befunde und Befindlichkeiten einer Herrscherdynastie. Band 15360 von Goldmanns Taschenbücher, ed. Goldmann TB 2005, ISBN 978-344215360-2
- Franz Carl Weidmann: Oesterreichischer Erinnerungs-Kalender. Historisch-chronistischer Ueberblick denkwürdiger, den österreichischen Kaiserstaat betreffender Ereignisse vom 1. Jänner 1840 bis 31. December 1845. Vienna, January 1846. In: Austria: österreichischer Universal-Kalender. ed. Klang 1847, vol. XLIII ff.
- Wurzbach, Constantin, von, ed. (1860). . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). 6. p. 208 – via Wikisource.
- Wurzbach, Constantin, von, ed. (1860). . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). 6. p. 257 – via Wikisource.
- Wurzbach, Constantin, von, ed. (1861). . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). 7. p. 81 – via Wikisource.
- Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 94.
- Wurzbach, Constantin, von, ed. (1861). . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). 7. p. 149 – via Wikisource.
- "Karoline Friederike Wilhelmine Königin von Bayern". Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte [House of Bavarian History] (in German). Bavarian Ministry of State for Wissenschaft and Kunst. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
Bibliography
- Egon Caesar Conte Corti: Vom Kind zum Kaiser. Die Jugend Kaiser Franz Josefs und seiner Brüder. Band 1 von Kaiser Franz Joseph I. Pustet, 1950.
- Cölestin Wolfsgruber: Die Kaisergruft bei den Kapuzinern in Wien. ed. Alfred Hölder, 1887, N°. 87, p. 307 ff. online
- Constantin von Wurzbach: Habsburg, Franz Karl Joseph in: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, vol. 6. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1861, p. 357 online