Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1770)

Archduchess Maria Anna
Born	21 April 1770 Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Died	1 October 1809 (aged 39) Neudorf, Romania
Burial	Neudorf
Names Maria Anna Ferdinanda Josepha Charlotte Johanna
House	House of Habsburg-Lorraine
Father	Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother	Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (Maria Anna Ferdinanda Josepha Charlotte Johanna; 21 April 1770 – 1 October 1809) was an Archduchess of Austria by birth, and an Abbess at the Theresian Convent in Prague.

Biography

Archduchess Maria Anna with his older brother Ferdinand, 1770, by Anton Raphael Mengs.

Maria Anna was a daughter of Emperor Leopold II (1747–1792) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain (1745–1792). Maria Anna was born in Florence, the capital of Tuscany, where her father reigned as Grand Duke from 1765–90. Maria Anna was her parents' fourth child among sixteen children. Her father was a son of Empress Maria Theresa and her mother a daughter of Charles III of Spain and Maria Amalia of Saxony. Though she had a happy childhood surrounded by her many siblings. As her siblings, Maria Anna was given a somewhat different upbringing than was usual given to royal children at the time: they were actually raised by their parents rather than a retinue of servants, were largely kept apart from any ceremonial court life and was taught to live simple, natural and modest. She became Abbess at the Theresian Convent in Prague in 1791. She traveled to Neudorf, Arad where she died on 1 October 1809, at the age of 39 years. In 1841, the emperor Ferdinand I of Austria honoring the Archduchess commissioned the funerary plaque built of Carrara marble.

Burial place of Archduchess Maria Anna Ferdinanda of Habsburg

Ancestors

Family of Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1770)

16. Charles V, Duke of Lorraine 8. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine 17. Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria Queen Dowager of Poland-Lithuania 4. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor Francis III Stephen, Duke of Lorraine 18. Philippe I, Duke of Orléans 9. Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans 19. Countess Palatine Elizabeth Charlotte of Simmern 2. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 20. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 10. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 21. Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg 5. Maria Theresa of Austria Queen of Hungary & Bohemia 22. Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 11. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 23. Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen 1. Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria 24. Louis, Dauphin of France 12. Philip V of Spain 25. Duchess Maria Anna of Bavaria 6. Charles III of Spain 26. Edward II Farnese, Duke of Parma 13. Elisabeth of Parma 27. Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg 3. Maria Luisa of Spain 28. Augustus II of Poland Elector of Saxony 14. Augustus III of Poland Elector of Saxony 29. Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth 7. Maria Amalia of Saxony 30. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 15. Maria Josepha of Austria 31. Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Calenberg

Titles and styles

• 22 April 1770 – 20 February 1790 Her Royal Highness Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Princess of Tuscany
• 20 February 1790- 1 October 1809 Her Royal Highness Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia

Bibliography

• Constantin Wurzbach, Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich, Vienna, 1861, Vol. VII, pp. 27–28 [1]