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Encyclopedia > Maria Josepha of Austria
Archduchess Maria Josefa of Austria, Queen of Poland.

Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria or Marie Josefa (German: Maria Josepha von Habsburg, Erzherzogin von Österreich, Polish: Maria Józefa Habsburżanka); (born December 8, 1699, in Vienna - died November 17, 1757, in Dresden) was Archduchess of Austria; after her marriage, Electress of Saxony and Queen of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. She was born an Archduchess of Austria as a daughter of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor. Image File history File links Eleonora_Maria_Josefa,_Archduchess_of_Austria. ... Image File history File links Eleonora_Maria_Josefa,_Archduchess_of_Austria. ... The title of Archduke (in German Erzherzog) was invented in the Privilegium Maius, a forgery initiated by Duke Rudolf IV of Austria. ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz signed March 30 - the tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa. ... Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 UN complex in Vienna, with the non-affiliated Austria Center Vienna in front - picture taken from Danube Tower in nearby Danube Park. ... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... 1757 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Dresden (Sorbian: Drježdźany; etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest) is the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony and situated in a valley on the River Elbe. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Joseph I. Joseph I (July 26, 1678 – April 17, 1711), Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduke of Austria, was the elder son of the emperor Leopold I and his third wife, Eleanora, Countess Palatine, daughter of Philip William of Neuburg, Elector Palatine. ...


Marriage and children

On August 20, 1719, Maria Josepha married Frederick Augustus II, Elector of Saxony (1733-1763), who became King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as August III the Saxon. Through this marriage between the Houses of Wettin and Habsburg, Frederick Augustus II's father, August II the Strong, hoped to place Saxony in a better position should there arise a war of succession to the Austrian territories. The couple's eldest surviving son, Frederick Christian, eventually succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony. August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... // Events January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel Prussia conducts Europes first systematic census Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused... List of Dukes, Electors, and Kings of Saxony, 880-1918 The original Duchy of Saxony was in Northern Germany, roughly corresponding to the modern German state of Lower Saxony and Westphalia. ... Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ... 1763 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Reign 1734 – October 5, 1763. ... Reign 1697 – 1706, and 1709 – 1 February 1733 Elected 1697 in Wola, now a district of Warsaw, Poland Coronation 15 September 1697, Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland Royal House Wettin Parents John George III Wettin, Anne Sophie Consorts Christiane Eberhardine, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth Children August III the Saxon, Maurice... Frederick Christian Frederick Christian (September 5, 1722 – December 17, 1763) was a member of the house of Wettin. ... List of Dukes, Electors, and Kings of Saxony, 880-1918 The original Duchy of Saxony was in Northern Germany, roughly corresponding to the modern German state of Lower Saxony and Westphalia. ...


The children of Maria Josepha and August were:

  1. Friedrich August (1720-1721);
  2. Joseph (1721-1728);
  3. Frederick Christian (1722-1763), Elector of Saxony;
  4. Maria Amalia Christina (1724-1760), who married Charles III of Spain;
  5. Maria Margaretha (1727-1734);
  6. Maria Anna Sophia (1728-1797), who married Maximilian III, Elector of Bavaria;
  7. Franz Xaver (1730-1806), Regent of Saxony, 1763 – 1768;
  8. Marie-Josèphe (1731-1767), who married Louis, dauphin de France (1729-1765), son of King Louis XV of France (1710-1774), and became the mother of Louis XVI of France;
  9. Carl Christian (1733-1796), Count of Courland;
  10. Maria Christina Anna (1735-1782), Reigning Abbess of Remiremont;
  11. Maria Elisabeth Apollonia (1736-1818);
  12. Albert Kasimir August (1738-1822);
  13. Clemens Wenzeslaus (1739-1812), Elector and Archbishop of Trier; and
  14. Maria Kunigunde Dorothe (1740-1826), Reigning Abbess of Thorn and Essen.


 

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