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Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, Duchess of Teschen, Selfportrait

Marie Christine Johanna Josephe Antonie of Austria (born Maria Christina Johanna Josepha Antonia) (13 May 1742 - 24 June 1798), (→Family Tree) called "Mimi", was the fourth daughter and fifth child of Maria Theresa of Austria and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events January 24 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1798 (MDCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... An ornament of the sarcophagus of Emperor Karl VI: a deaths head with the crown of the Holy Roman Empire Tomb of Franz Josef I, flanked by wife Elisabeth and son Rudolf. ... Not to be confused with Maria Theresa of Austria (1816-1867). ... Francis I Silver coin of Francis I, dated 1754. ...

Life

Marie was her mother's favourite child. The doting partiality that the Empress showed towards her caused intense jealousy in her siblings, especially the Emperor Joseph II, whose first wife (Isabella of Parma) also seemed to prefer Marie's company to her husband's. It was rumoured that Isabella and Marie were lesbian lovers, although the allegation was never proven. Joseph II (full name: Joseph Benedikt August Johannes Anton Michel Adam; March 13, 1741 – February 20, 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790 and ruler of the Habsburg lands from 1780 to 1790. ... Maria Isabella painted by Jean-Marc Nattier Isabella Maria of Parma, (December 31, 1741 – November 27, 1763), was the daughter of Philip, Duke of Parma and his wife Louise-Elisabeth. ...

Marie was a very intelligent woman who knew how to manipulate her parents, especially her mother. The sudden death of her father, the Emperor Francis, and the depression that overcame Empress Maria Theresa following her widowhood meant that Marie was able to convince her vulnerable and sentimental mother into permitting her to marry for love rather than for reasons of state — the only child allowed to do so. She chose Prince Albert of Saxony and the couple was appointed joint governors of the Austrian Netherlands. Prince Albert Casimir August of Saxony, Duke of Teschen (11 July 1738 in the Moritzburg near Dresden - 10 February 1822 in Vienna) was a German art collector who married into the Habsburg imperial family. ... Originally the term Netherlands referred to a much larger entity than the current Kingdom of the Netherlands. ...

Naturally, Marie's luck in being permitted to marry the man she loved, while another daughter - Maria Amalia, also in love with a minor prince, Charles of Zweibrucken - was forcibly married off to Ferdinand of Parma rather than to her sweetheart, embittered Maria Theresa's other daughters, who already resented their mother's favouritism. Maria Amalia, the daughter most affected, remained estranged from her mother for the rest of the Empress's life. Maria Amalia of Austria, duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla Maria Amalia of Austria (Feb 26, 1746, Vienna - Jun 18, 1804, Prague). ... Charles II August Christian (b. ... Ferdinand, Duke of Parma. ...

Monarchical styles of Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria
Reference style	Her Imperial and Royal Highness
Spoken style	Your Imperial and Royal Highness
Alternative style	Sir
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Mimi had only one child, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, who died on May 17, 1767, the day after her birth, and she was unable to have other children. The couple then became the adoptive parents of Archduke Charles of Austria. Image File history File links Imperial Crown of Austria License:from German language version of Wikipedia. ... A style of office, or honorific, is a form of address which by tradition or law precedes a reference to a person who holds a title or post, or to the political office itself. ... is the 137th day of the year (138th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1767 (MDCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Victorious Archduke Charles of Austria during the Battle of Aspern_Essling (May 21_22, 1809) The epileptic younger brother of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, Archduke Charles of Austria (Erzherzog Karl) (September 5, 1771 - April 30, 1847) achieved respect both as a commander and as a reformer of Austrias army. ...

Her siblings - especially her sisters - never mended fences with her, even after their mother passed on. Queen Marie Antoinette of France, her youngest sister, pointedly ignored her during her visit to France and considered her as just another state guest when she visited Versailles. Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France and Archduchess of Austria (born November 1755 – executed 16 October 1793) Daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria, wife of Louis XVI and mother of Louis XVII. She was guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. ... Hall of Mirrors redirects here. ...

Marie's request to see the Petit Trianon, Antoinette's private retreat, was ignored. When Antoinette was guillotined in 1793, Marie was reported to have remarked drily that she (Antoinette) ought never to have married. Marie stands testimony to the damaging, long-term effects of parental favourtism and the subsequent (and devastating) sibling rivalry. The Petit Trianon, Versailles The Petit Trianon, situated at a short distance from the Grand Trianon in Versailles, France, was designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel by order of Louis XV for his long-term mistress, Madame de Pompadour, and was constructed between 1762-1768. ...

She is buried in the Tuscan Vault of the Imperial Crypt in Vienna, along with her husband and daughter. The famous and moving monument her husband erected to her memory is in the Augustinerkirche. The Imperial Crypt Vaults are the various chambers of the Imperial Crypt in Vienna in which most members of the senior lines of the Habsburg dynasty, the hereditary Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, have been entombed, beginning in 1632. ... An ornament of the sarcophagus of Emperor Karl VI: a deaths head with the crown of the Holy Roman Empire Tomb of Franz Josef I, flanked by wife Elisabeth and son Rudolf. ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... The Augustinerkirche Since 1634, the Augustinerkirche has been the historic parish church of the Hofburg, the winter palace of the Habsburg dynasty in the center of Vienna. ...

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