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Princess Marie Victoire d'Arenberg

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Marie Victoire d'Arenberg
Painting of Marie Victoire by Johann Wolfgang Hauwiller, ca. 1770
Margravine of Baden-Baden
Consort22 October 1761 – 21 October 1771
Burial
Stiftskirche, Baden-Baden
SpouseAugustus George of Baden-Baden
IssueNone
HouseHouse of Arenberg
FatherLéopold Philippe d'Arenberg
MotherMaria Lodovica Francesca Pignatelli

Marie Victoire d'Arenberg (Marie Victoire Pauline; 26 October 1714 – 13 April 1793) was a member of the House of Arenberg and later the Margravine of Baden-Baden as consort of Augustus George of Baden-Baden[1]. She is credited for her charitable nature setting up various religious orders in her adopted Baden-Baden where she was known as Maria Viktoria.

Biography

Marie Victoire was born in Brussels the eldest daughter of Léopold Philippe d'Arenburg. Her mother was Maria Lodovica Francesca Pignatelli, a grand daughter of Ottone Enrico del Carretto was an Imperial Army commander like her own father. As a member of the House of Arenberg, she was allowed the style of Serene Highness reflecting the Arenbergs status as princes of the Holy Roman Empire.

She was one of six children, her only surviving brother being Charles Marie Raymond d'Arenberg, another distinguished member of the imperial army. She was a childhood friend of the future Empress Maria Theresa.

She was a cousin of Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne, wife of Count Palatine John Christian and mother of the last Wittelsbach Elector of Bavaria.

Marie Victoire received a strict Roman Catholic education and in later life, spent much of her larger personal fortune on charitable foundations related to the Catholic Church. She was also active in the care of children and Catholic education of young women. She also had a good education in music and the arts.

On 7 December 1735[1] she married Margrave Augustus George of Baden-Baden, youngest son of Louis William of Baden-Baden and Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg. Originally destined for the church, he left his ecclesiastical career in 1735. He was the brother of the ruling Margarve Louis George of Baden-Baden.

The marriage remained childless. At the death of her brother in law Louis George in 1761, her husband succeeded as margrave making Marie Victoire, known as Maria Viktoria in Germany, the most important female at the court of Baden-Baden displacing Louis Georges widow Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria, sister of Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria.

While Margravine, she set up a Augustinian choir for the women of Rastatt, the main seat of the rulers of Baden-Baden. Her husband died in 1771 leaving no heirs of his own and thus Baden-Baden went to Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (1777), a cousin of the Sulzbach line of the House of Wittelsbach leaving the defunct Maria Viktoria without a home.

She moved from Rastatt and took up residence in Ottersweier where she set up a convent. In the convent school girls learned all the skills which they would need as future mothers and teachers. In 1767 she bequeathed most of her property of a foundation to preserve the school beyond their death.

She died in Strasbourg aged 78[1]. She was buried at the Stiftskirche in Baden-Baden beside her husband[2].

Ancestry

Family of Princess Marie Victoire d'Arenberg
16. Philippe-Charles, 3rd Count of Arenberg
8. Charles Eugene d'Arenberg, Duke of Arenberg
17. Countess Maria Cleopha of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
4. Philippe Charles d'Arenberg, Duke of Arenberg
18. Claude François de Cusance
9. Marie Henriette de Cusance et de Vergy
19. Ernestine de Witthem, Countess of Walhain
2. Léopold Philippe d'Arenberg, Duke of Arenberg
20. Francesco del Carretto, Marquis of Grana, Count of Millesimo
10. Ottone Enrico del Carretto, Marchese of Savona and Grana
21. Countess Margarethe Fugger von Nordendorf
5. Maria Enrietta del Carretto, Marchesa of Savona and Grana
22. Count Johann Maximilian of Herberstein
11. Countess Maria Theresia of Herberstein
23. Baroness Eleonora Katharina Breunner
1. Marie Victoire d'Arenberg
24. Franceso Pignatelli, Duke of Bisaccia
12. Carlo Pignatelli, Duke of Bisaccia
25. Vittoria di Capua
6. Niccolo Pignatelli, Duke of Bisaccia
26. Nicola del Giudice, Prince of Cellamare, Duke of Giovenazzo
13. Chiara del Giudice
27. Ippolita Pelagnano
3. Maria Francesca Pignatelli, Duchess of Bisaccia, Countess of Egmond
28. Louis, Count of Egmond
14. Philip Louis, Count of Egmond
29. Marie Marguerite de Berlaymont
7. Maria Clara Angelica van Egmond
30. Charles Philippe de Croÿ, Marquis of Renty, Duke of Havré
15. Maria Ferdinanda de Croÿ
31. Marie Claire de Croÿ, Duchess of Havré

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

  • 26 October 1714 – 7 December 1735 Her Serene Highness Princess Marie Victoire d'Arenberg
  • 7 December 1735 – 22 October 1761 Her Serene Highness Margravine Augustus George of Baden-Baden
  • 22 October 1761 – 21 October 1771 Her Serene Highness the Margravine of Baden-Baden
  • 21 October 1771 – 13 April 1793 Her Serene Highness the Dowager Margravine of Baden-Baden

References

  1. ^ a b c van de Pas, Leo. "Princesse Marie Victoire d'Arenburg". Genealogics.org. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  2. ^ "Burial of the Margraves of Baden-Baden". royaltyguide.nl. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
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