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'''Princess Anna Victoria of Savoy-Carignan''' (1680–1763) was the daughter of [[Prince Louis Thomas of Savoy-Carignan]], Duc de [[Soissons]], and [[Urania de la Cropte]]. Louis Thomas was the eldest brother of [[Prince Eugene of Savoy]].
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Princess Maria Anna Victoria
| title = Princess Joseph of Saxe-Hilburghausen
| image = Ambito Piemontese - Maria Vittoria di Savoia - Racconigi.png
| caption = ''Princess Maria Anna Vittoria of Savoy''
| birth_date = 10 November 1686{{sfn | de Saint-Allais | 1817 | p=92}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1763|10|11|1686|11|10|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Turin]], [[Savoyard state]]
| house = [[House of Savoy-Carignano]] (by birth) <br> [[Saxe-Hildburghausen|House of Saxe-Hildburghausen]] <br>(by marriage)
| father = [[Louis Thomas, Count of Soissons]]
| mother = Uranie de La Cropte de Beauvais
| spouse = [[Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen]] (1738–1757; marriage dissolved)}}


'''Princess Maria Anna Victoria of Savoy''' ({{langx|de|Maria Anna Victoria von Savoyen}}, ({{langx|fr|Marie Anne Victoire de Savoie}}); 11 September 1683 – 11 October 1763) was the daughter of [[Louis Thomas, Count of Soissons|Prince Louis Thomas of Savoy]], [[Count of Soissons]], and Uranie [[:fr:Famille de la Cropte|de La Cropte de Beauvais]] (1655-1717).
In her early days she was seemingly as much given over to profligacy as her aunts, the sisters of her father. She did not seem to be particularly close to her famous martial uncle. He may have somewhat cared for her, but she did not as readily return the affection.


==Biography==
Upon Eugene's death, Anna Victoria inherited his estate in [[Austria]], of which she then proceeded to quickly sell off at cut rate prices. His mansions, art collections, wartime medals, and the sword given to him by Queen [[Anne of England]] for his part in the War of the Spanish Succession were sold; nothing was spared.
As the daughter of [[Louis Thomas, Count of Soissons]], she was styled ''Mademoiselle de Soissons'' or ''Mademoiselle de Carignan'' prior to her marriage. Her father had married at the age of twenty two far below his class and in secret Uranie de La Cropte de Beauvais, after the death of her husband Uranie retired into a monastery.{{sfn | de Saint-Allais | 1817 | p=92}} Maria Anna Victoria was the niece of [[Prince Eugene of Savoy]], the great general and statesman of imperial Austria, a patron of the arts whom she had never met.{{sfn | McKay | Baker | von Savoyen | 1977 | p=203}}


Upon Prince Eugene's sudden death in 1736, without a will or testament, Maria Anna Victoria as his closest relative inherited his immense possessions in [[Austria]], which she then proceeded to quickly sell off at cut rate prices. His mansions, vast art collections (with an estimated 400 pictures), antique furniture, old masters, statues, even his wartime medals, the sword given to him by [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]], for his part in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] and the portrait given to him by [[Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Joseph]] were sold; nothing was spared.{{sfn | Henderson | 2002 | p=291}} Only his library and his favourite palace, the [[Belvedere, Vienna|Belvedere]] were purchased by the Emperor,<ref name="The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal 1862 p. 546">{{cite book | title=The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal | publisher=Longmans, Green & Company | series=Early British periodicals | issue=v. 116 | year=1862 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k8JKAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA546| page=546}}</ref> while [[Schloss Hof]] and the [[Winter Palace of Prince Eugene|Stadtpalais]] went to [[Maria Theresa]].{{sfn | Henderson | 2002 | p=291}}
She was married for a short time to the Austrian Imperial Quartermaster, Prince [[Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen]], but it ended in divorce.


The bitterness of every Austrian against Maria Anna Victoria as she proceeded with the liquidation was expressed in a couplet which was pinned on her door:{{sfn | Henderson | 2002 | p=291}}
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She then lived for a time in [[France]], and eventually died in [[Turin]], [[Italy]], in 1763 at the age of 83.
{{Blockquote|text=Est-il possible que du prince Eugene la gloire <br>Soit ternie par une si vilaine Victoire<br><br>Is it possible, that Prince Eugene’s glory<br>
Be tarnished by such a bad Victoria}}


Embellished with her fantastic dowry, fifty-two-year-old Princess Maria Anna Victoria married on 17 April 1738 German officer and [[Feldzeugmeister]] of the [[Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire)|Imperial Army]] [[Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen]], who was sixteen years younger than her, and led a life of lavish parties.{{sfn | Markus | 2014 | p=163}} The union ended in divorce in 1757 after Saxe-Hildburghausen was said to have ingloriously ran away.{{sfn | Vehse | Demmler | 1856 | p=140}} The couple had no children.{{sfn | Mraz | Nemec | 1988 | p=75}}
==Source==
*Henderson, Nicholas. ''Prince Eugene of Savoy''. New York, 1964


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She then lived for a time in [[France]], and eventually died in [[Turin, Italy]], in 1763 at the age of 76.
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==Ancestry==
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|3= 3. Uranie de La Cropte de Beauvais
|4= 4. [[Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons]]
|5= 5. [[Olympia Mancini]]
|6= 6. François-Paul de La Cropte, Lord of Beauvais
|7= 7. Charlotte Martel, Lady of Tonnay-Boutonne
|8= 8. [[Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano]]
|9= 9. [[Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons]]
|10= 10. Lorenzo [[Mancini family|Mancini]]
|11= 11. [[Girolama Mazzarini]]
|12= 12. Charles de La Cropte, Lord of Chanteirac
|13= 13. Isabeau d'Auzaneau
|14= 14. Gédéon Martel, Count of Marennes
|15= 15. Élisabeth de La Mothe-Fouqué
|16= 16. [[Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy]]
|17= 17. [[Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain]]
|18= 18. [[Charles, Count of Soissons]]
|19= 19. [[Anne de Montafié, Countess of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis]]
|20= 20. Paolo Mancini
|21= 21. Vittoria [[Capocci]]
|22= 22. [[Pietro Mazzarini]]
|23= 23. Ortensia [[Bufalini (surname)|Bufalini]]
|24= 24. Arnaud de La Cropte, Lord of Chanteirac
|25= 25. Marie de Massin
|26= 26. Jacques d'Auzaneau, Lord of Musset
|27= 27. Marie de Labat
|28= 28. Isaac Martel, Count of Marennes, Lord of Lindebeuf
|29= 29. Élisabeth Puchot de Gerponville
|30= 30. Charles de La Mothe-Fouqué, Lord of Saint-Surin
|31= 31. Élisabeth de la Cassaigne, Lady of Tonnay-Boutonne
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==References==
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==Sources==
* {{cite book | last=de Saint-Allais | first=N.V. | title=Nobiliaire universel de France: ou Recueil général des généalogies historiques des maisons nobles de ce royaume | publisher=Bachelin-Deflorenne| year=1817 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Al5s7apj6KIC&pg=PA92 | language=fr}}
* {{cite book | last=Henderson | first=N. | title=Prince Eugen of Savoy: A Biography | publisher=Phoenix | series=A Phoenix Press Paperback | year=2002 | isbn=978-1-84212-597-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-fztwAEACAAJ}}
* {{cite book | last1=McKay | first1=D. | last2=Baker | first2=D.V. | last3=von Savoyen | first3=E.P. | title=Prince Eugene of Savoy | publisher=Thames and Hudson | series=Men in office | year=1977 | isbn=978-0-500-87007-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BL9vnAEACAAJ}}
* {{cite book | last=Markus | first=G. | title=Alles nur Zufall?: Schicksalsstunden großer Österreicher | publisher=Amalthea Signum Verlag | year=2014 | isbn=978-3-902862-98-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L8l3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT163 | language=de}}
* {{cite book | last1=Mraz | first1=G. | last2=Nemec | first2=H. | title=Belvedere: Schloss und Park des Prinzen Eugen | publisher=Herder | year=1988 | isbn=978-3-210-24871-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wbJNAAAAYAAJ | language=de}}
* {{cite book | last1=Vehse | first1=C.E. | last2=Demmler | first2=F.K.F. | title=Memoirs of the Court, Aristocracy, and Diplomacy of Austria | publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans | series=Memoirs of the Court, Aristocracy, and Diplomacy of Austria | issue=v. 2 | year=1856 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vZVHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA140}}

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Princess Maria Anna Victoria
Princess Joseph of Saxe-Hilburghausen
Princess Maria Anna Vittoria of Savoy
Born10 November 1686[1]
Died11 October 1763(1763-10-11) (aged 76)
Turin, Savoyard state
SpousePrince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1738–1757; marriage dissolved)
HouseHouse of Savoy-Carignano (by birth)
House of Saxe-Hildburghausen
(by marriage)
FatherLouis Thomas, Count of Soissons
MotherUranie de La Cropte de Beauvais

Princess Maria Anna Victoria of Savoy (German: Maria Anna Victoria von Savoyen, (French: Marie Anne Victoire de Savoie); 11 September 1683 – 11 October 1763) was the daughter of Prince Louis Thomas of Savoy, Count of Soissons, and Uranie de La Cropte de Beauvais (1655-1717).

Biography

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As the daughter of Louis Thomas, Count of Soissons, she was styled Mademoiselle de Soissons or Mademoiselle de Carignan prior to her marriage. Her father had married at the age of twenty two far below his class and in secret Uranie de La Cropte de Beauvais, after the death of her husband Uranie retired into a monastery.[1] Maria Anna Victoria was the niece of Prince Eugene of Savoy, the great general and statesman of imperial Austria, a patron of the arts whom she had never met.[2]

Upon Prince Eugene's sudden death in 1736, without a will or testament, Maria Anna Victoria as his closest relative inherited his immense possessions in Austria, which she then proceeded to quickly sell off at cut rate prices. His mansions, vast art collections (with an estimated 400 pictures), antique furniture, old masters, statues, even his wartime medals, the sword given to him by Anne, Queen of Great Britain, for his part in the War of the Spanish Succession and the portrait given to him by Emperor Joseph were sold; nothing was spared.[3] Only his library and his favourite palace, the Belvedere were purchased by the Emperor,[4] while Schloss Hof and the Stadtpalais went to Maria Theresa.[3]

The bitterness of every Austrian against Maria Anna Victoria as she proceeded with the liquidation was expressed in a couplet which was pinned on her door:[3]

Est-il possible que du prince Eugene la gloire
Soit ternie par une si vilaine Victoire

Is it possible, that Prince Eugene’s glory
Be tarnished by such a bad Victoria

Embellished with her fantastic dowry, fifty-two-year-old Princess Maria Anna Victoria married on 17 April 1738 German officer and Feldzeugmeister of the Imperial Army Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen, who was sixteen years younger than her, and led a life of lavish parties.[5] The union ended in divorce in 1757 after Saxe-Hildburghausen was said to have ingloriously ran away.[6] The couple had no children.[7]

She then lived for a time in France, and eventually died in Turin, Italy, in 1763 at the age of 76.

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ a b de Saint-Allais 1817, p. 92.
  2. ^ McKay, Baker & von Savoyen 1977, p. 203.
  3. ^ a b c Henderson 2002, p. 291.
  4. ^ The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal. Early British periodicals. Longmans, Green & Company. 1862. p. 546.
  5. ^ Markus 2014, p. 163.
  6. ^ Vehse & Demmler 1856, p. 140.
  7. ^ Mraz & Nemec 1988, p. 75.

Sources

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