Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria
Maria Anna Josepha | |
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Electoral Princess of the Palatinate | |
Born | 20 December 1654 Free Imperial City of Regensburg, Holy Roman Empire |
Died | 4 April 1689 Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire | (aged 34)
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Spouse | |
House | Habsburg |
Father | Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor |
Mother | Eleonora Gonzaga |
Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (20 December 1654 – 4 April 1689) was an Austrian archduchess who became Electoral Princess of the Palatinate as the wife of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine.
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. The couple settled in Düsseldorf and led an elaborate household there. In 1679, her father-in-law gifted them the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. 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:
- Son (born and died 6 February 1683).
- Son (born and died 5 February 1686).
Death
Maria Anna died of tuberculosis during a visit to 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.
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- 1654 births
- 1689 deaths
- 17th-century House of Habsburg
- 17th-century Austrian women
- 17th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- Austrian princesses
- Electoral Princesses of the Palatinate
- Countesses Palatine of Neuburg
- House of Wittelsbach
- German royalty
- Burials at the Imperial Crypt
- Duchesses of Jülich
- Duchesses of Berg
- Tuberculosis deaths in the Holy Roman Empire
- Daughters of emperors
- Children of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
- Daughters of kings