Maria Amalia was born on 26 February 1746. The Archduchess was the eighth child of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, who had accended the Imperial throne just a year before Maria Amalia was born. After a tumultuous few years and a drawn-out succession crisis, her mother’s reign was finally [read more]
Read part one here. Nevertheless, Maria Amalia was quickly pregnant with her first child, which turned out to be a short-lived girl born in 1723. A second daughter – named Maria Antonia Walpurgis – was born on 18 July 1724, followed by a third daughter – named Theresa Benedicta – on 6 December 1725. The [read more]
Maria Amalia of Austria was born on 22 October 1701 as the youngest child of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife, Wilhelmine Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. She was born three months after the death of her only brother Leopold Joseph, and so the disappointment in her gender was great. However, her elder sister Maria [read more]
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily was born on 26 April 1782 as the daughter of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Carolina of Austria. She was their tenth child out of a total of 18. Her mother was a sister of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Archduke [read more]
As a continuation of our series regarding “The Year of Maria Theresa,” we take a look at the birth and life of her daughter, Maria Amalia. On 26 February 1746, Maria Theresa gave birth to her eighth child, and sixth daughter, in the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria. She was given the full name [read more]
When Maria Theresa of Austria ascended the throne, it was due to her father’s efforts in getting the Mutual Pact of Succession amended into the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. Her father was Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor and he had succeeded his brother, Joseph I in 1711 as Joseph had no male heirs. However, he did have [read more]
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