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#OnThisDay in 1768 Karoline von Manderscheid-Blankenheim was born as the daughter of Count Johann Wilhelm of Manderscheid-Blankenheim and Countess Johanna Maximiliana Franziska of Limburg-Stirum. On 16 November 1783, she married Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein but they had no children together. She died on 1 March 1831.
#OnThisDay in 1686 Eleonora Luisa Gonzaga was born as the daughter of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla and Sabbioneta and Princess Maria Vittoria Gonzaga of Guastalla. On 14 July 1709, she married Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro but they had no children together. She died on 16 March 1741.
#OnThisDay in 1571 Marfa Vasilyevna Sobakina died. She was born circa 1552 as the daughter of Vasiliy Sobakin and an unnamed mother. On 28 October 1571, she married Tsar Ivan IV of Russia but she died sixteen days later.
#OnThisDay in 1882 Infanta María Teresa of Spain was born as the daughter of King Alfonso XII of Spain and Maria Christina of Austria. On 12 January 1906, she married her first cousin Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria and they had four children together, though not all lived to adulthood. She died on 23 September 1912.
#OnThisDay in 1657 Duchess Anna Dorothea of Saxe-Weimar was born as the daughter of the future John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Princess Christine Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg. She was elected as Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg in 1684. She died on 24 June 1704.
#OnThisDay in 1850 Princess Therese of Bavaria was born as the daughter of Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria and Archduchess Augusta of Austria. She was a botanist and writer. She never married. She died on 19 December 1925.




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