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Maria Theresa of Austria – ‘Let others wage war: thou, happy Austria, marry’ (Part four)

November 24, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part three here. The death of Francis meant that Maria Theresa had to rebuild her world. In the months following his death, she remained in deep mourning. In her prayer book, she recorded the exact length of his life, to the hour: “Emperor Francis, my husband, lived 56 years, 8 months, 10 days and [read more]

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Maria Josepha of Austria – Devotional fervour (Part two)

November 3, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. After being made to renounce her claim to the Habsburg lands by her uncle Charles, Maria Joseph and Frederick Augustus were married on 20 August 1719. Nevertheless, with Charles’s daughters still in their infancy, there remained a distant possibility of succeeding to the Imperial Crown. The couple would go on to [read more]

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Maria Josepha of Austria – Devotional fervour (Part one)

November 1, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Maria Josepha of Austria was born on 8 December 1699 as the eldest child of the future Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor and Princess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. A younger brother named Leopold Joseph was born the following year, but he died of hydrocephalus before his first birthday. A sister named Maria Amalia was born [read more]

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Maria Amalia of Austria – Holy Roman Empress against the odds (Part two)

September 29, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

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]

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Maria Amalia of Austria – Holy Roman Empress against the odds (Part one)

September 27, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

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]

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Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily – A Crown of Thorns (Part one)

June 4, 2020 Moniek Bloks 0

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]

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