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Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg

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Maria Dorothea
Archduchess Joseph of Austria
Born(1797-11-01)1 November 1797
Carlsruhe (Pokój), Silesia
Died30 March 1855(1855-03-30) (aged 57)
Budapest, Hungary
SpouseArchduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary
IssueArchduchess Franziska Marie
Archduke Alexander
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska
Archduke Joseph Karl
Marie Henriette, Queen of the Belgians
Names
Maria Dorothea Luise Wilhelmine Caroline
HouseWürttemberg
FatherDuke Louis of Württemberg
MotherPrincess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
ReligionLutheranism

Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (Maria Dorothea Luise Wilhelmine Caroline; 1 November 1797 in Carlsruhe (now Pokój), Silesia – 30 March 1855 in Pest, Hungary) was the daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756–1817) and Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg (1780–1857).[citation needed]

Family

Maria Dorothea in 1818.
Archduchess Maria Dorothea

Maria Dorothea was the eldest of five children born to Duke Louis of Württemberg and his second wife Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg. She was born in Carlsruhe (now Pokój), Silesia, now Poland.

Her brother Alexander was the grandfather of Mary of Teck, the future queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom.

She was tutored by her governess, the known memoirist Alexandrine des Écherolles, who described her pupils in her memoirs.[1]

Marriage and children

She was the third wife of Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, to whom she was married on 24 August 1819. They had five children:

Name Portrait Lifespan Notes
Archduchess Franziska Marie of Austria
 1820-
1820 		Died in infancy.
Archduke Alexander of Austria
 1825-
1837 		Died in childhood
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria
 1831-
1903 		Married firstly Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este and had issue;

married secondly Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and had issue.

Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria
 1833-
1905 		Married Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and had issue.
Archduchess Marie Henriette of Austria 1836-
1902 		Married Leopold II of Belgium and had issue

Ancestry

References

Citations

  1. ^ Side Lights on the Reign of Terror; being the memoirs of Mademoiselle des Écherolles (London, 1900)

Source

  • Keith, Alexander (1867). "Origin of the Mission to the Jews at Pesth". The Sunday at home: a family magazine for Sabbath reading. Vol. 14. London: The Religious Tract Society. pp. 212-216, 232-237, 245-248, 261-263.
  • Kovács, Ábrahám (2006). The History of the Free Church of Scotland's Mission to the Jews in Budapest and its impact on the Reformed Church of Hungary 1841-1914. Frankfurt am Main; New York; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Wien: Peter Lang Verlag.
  • Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Royal Families of the World, Volume 1: Europe & Latin America (1977), London, UK: Burke's Peerage Ltd, page 22.


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