Marie Christine Johanna Josephe Antonie of Austria (born Maria Christina Johanna Josepha Antonia) (3 May 1742 - 24 June 1798), (→Family Tree) called "Mimi", was the second girl and fifth child of Maria Theresa of Austria and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... // Events January 24 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... 1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for 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. ... H.I.M. Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Great Principess of Transylvania, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla Maria Theresa (May 13, 1717 – November 29, 1780) was the first and only female head of the Habsburg dynasty. ... Francis I Francis I (December 8, 1708 – August 18, 1765) was Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany. ...

Her mother stalled arranged marriages for her favorite daughter until after the death of Mimi's father so that she could marry for love instead of reasons of state — the only child allowed to do so. She chose Duke Albert of Saxony-Teschen. She was appointed governor of the Austrian Netherlands. Albert Casimir August of Saxony, Duke of Teschen (11 July 1738 in the Moritzburg near Dresden - 10 February 1822 in Vienna) was a famous art collector. ... Originally the term Netherlands referred to a much larger entity than the current Kingdom of the Netherlands. ...

Mimi had only one child, (Duchess Christina of Saxony-Teschen, 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. May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ... 1767 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Archduke Charles Erzherzog Karl von Österreich (en: Archduke Charles of Austria) (September 5, 1771 – April 30, 1847) was a son of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747 – 1792) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain (1745 – 1792). ...

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. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Croatian and Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... 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. ...