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Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria

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Maria Johanna Gabriela
Archduchess of Austria
Marie Johanna Gabriela by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1762
Born(1750-02-04)4 February 1750
Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria
Died23 December 1762(1762-12-23) (aged 12)
Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria
Burial
Imperial Crypt, Capuchins church, Vienna, Austria
HouseHouse of Habsburg-Lorraine
FatherFrancis I, Holy Roman Emperor
MotherMaria Theresa of Austria

Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria (Maria Johanna Gabriela Josepha Antonia; 4 February 1750 Vienna, Austria - 23 December 1762 Vienna, Austria). She was the eleventh child of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708–1765) and Maria Theresa of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (1717–1780). She died of smallpox.

Life

Her sarcophagus in Imperial Crypt, Vienna

Maria Johanna was born on 4 February 1750; and christened Maria Joanna Gabrielle Josepha Antonia (‹See Tfd›German: Marie Johanna Gabriele Josephe Antonie), she was always referred to as Johanna. She was the older sister of Maria Carolina of Austria, Queen of Naples and Sicily as wife of the Bourbon King Ferdinand of Naples and Sicily; she was also the older sister of Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI of France.

An older brother Archduke Charles Joseph had died of smallpox in 18 January 1761 and afterward, Maria Theresa became a strong supporter of inoculation, an early method of immunization, and set a strong example by requiring all of her children to be inoculated. At the time, Johanna was engaged to the future King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies.

The inoculation did not work for Maria Johanna Gabriela, who became infected and died of smallpox at the age of 12. She was buried in the Imperial Crypt, Vienna, Austria. After her death, Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria, her younger sister whom she was very close to, became engaged to Ferdinand; but she, too, died of smallpox in 1767, before the marriage could take place. Maria Carolina married him and gave him sixteen children.

Ancestry

Family of Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria
16. Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine
8. Charles V, Duke of Lorraine
17. Claude-Françoise of Lorraine
4. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine
18. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
9. Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria
Queen Dowager of Poland-Lithuania
19. Eleanor Gonzaga of Mantua
2. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
20. Louis XIII of France
10. Philippe de France, Duke of Orléans
21. Anne of Austria
5. Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans
22. Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine
11. Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate
23. Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel
1. Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria
24. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (= 18)
12. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
25. Maria Anna of Spain
6. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
26. Philip William, Elector Palatine
13. Eleonore Magdalene of the Palatinate
27. Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
3. Maria Theresa of Austria
Queen of Hungary & Bohemia
28. Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
14. Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
29. Duchess Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg
7. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
30. Albert Ernest I, Prince of Oettingen-Oettingen
15. Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen
31. Duchess Christine Frederica of Württemburg

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

  • 4 February 1750 – 23 December 1762 Her Royal Highness Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia, Princess of Tuscany

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