Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria

Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (20 December 1654 – 4 April 1689)[1] was born an archduchess of Austria as the daughter of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, and later became Electoral Princess of the Palatinate as the wife of Johann Willhelm, Elector Palatine.

Maria Anna Josepha
Electoral Princess of the Palatinate
Portrait, c. 1678
Born20 December 1654
Regensburg
Died4 April 1689(1689-04-04) (aged 34)
Vienna
Burial
Imperial Crypt
Spouse
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(m. 1678)​
HouseHabsburg
FatherFerdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
MotherEleonora Gonzaga
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Life

Early life

Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha was born on 30 December 1654 as the third child and daughter of to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608–1657) and his third wife, Eleonora Gonzaga (1630–1686). She also had had seven half-siblings from the previous two marriages of her father, only four of whom were still alive at the time of her birth. Two months after she was born, her eldest full sibling, Archduchess Theresa Maria Josepha (1652–1653) died at the age of one and a half years. Her only younger sibling, Archduke Ferdinand Joseph Alois (1657–1658) was born in 1657 and died in infancy.

Marriage

On 25 October 1678, twenty-four-years-old Maria Anna married twenty-years-old Electoral Prince Johann Wilhelm (John William) (1658–1716) from the House of Wittelsbach in Wiener Neustadt. He was the eldest son and heir of Philip William, Elector Palatine (1615–1690), and the brother-in-law of Maria Anna's eldest brother, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640–1705). The wedding ceremony was performed by Archbishop Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch.[2] The couple settled in Düsseldorf and led an elaborate household there.[3] In 1679, her father-in-law gifted them the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.[4] Upon Philip William's death, Johann Wilhelm became Elector Palatine and Duke of Neuburg.

Issue

During her marriage, Maria Anna gave birth to two children, but neither survived infancy:[5][6]

  • Son (born and died 6 February 1683).
  • Son (born and died 5 February 1686).

Death

Maria Anna died of tuberculosis during a visit in Vienna. She was buried there in the Imperial Crypt beneath the Capuchin Church, the principal place of burial for members of the House of Habsburg.

Ancestry

Notes
  1. Brigitte Hamann: Die Habsburger. Ein Biographisches Lexikon., Ueberreuter, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-8000-3247-3, p.291.
  2. Ferdinand C. Böheim, Wendelin Boeheim: Chronicle of Wiener-Neustadt, vol. 2, Prandel & Ewald, 1863, p. 173.
  3. K. Strauven: About Artistic life and work in Dusseldorf to Düsseldorf school of painting under Director Schadow, H. Voss, 1862, p. 12.
  4. "Kurfürst Jan Wellem". www.geschichtswerkstatt-duesseldorf.de. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  5. Gustav Prümm: A win for life, Books on Demand, 2009, p. 54.
  6. "Complete Genealogy of the House of Wittelsbach". genealogy.euweb.cz. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  7. Wurzbach, Constantin, von, ed. (1860). "Habsburg, Karl II. von Steiermark" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 6. p. 352 – via Wikisource.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  8. Eder, Karl (1961), "Ferdinand II.", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 5, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 83–85; (full text online)
  9. Eder, Karl (1961), "Ferdinand III.", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 5, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 85–86; (full text online)
  10. Wurzbach, Constantin, von, ed. (1861). "Habsburg, Maria von Bayern" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 7. p. 20 – via Wikisource.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  11. Sigmund Ritter von Riezler (1897), "Wilhelm V. (Herzog von Bayern)", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), vol. 42, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 717–723
  12. Wurzbach, Constantin, von, ed. (1861). "Habsburg, Maria Anna von Bayern" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 7. p. 23 – via Wikisource.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  13. Cartwright, Julia Mary (1913). Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590. New York: E. P. Dutton. pp. 536–539.
  14. "GONZAGA: LINEA SOVRANA DI MANTOVA". Enciclopedia genealogica del Mediterraneo (in Italian). Società Genealogica Italiana [Italian Genealogical Society]. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  15. "Gonzaga, Eleonora II (1628–1686)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Gale Research. 2002. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  16. "Gonzaga, Maria (1609–1660)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Gale Research. 2002. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

References
  • Harm Klueting, Wolfgang Schmale: The Empire and its territorial states in the 17th and 18th centuries, Volume 10, LIT Edit. Münster, 2004, p. 69.
  • Constantin von Wurzbach: Maria Anna Josepha. Nr. 219. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, vol. 7, Edit. L. C. Zamarski, Vienna 1861, p. 29.

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