María Josepha Sophia de Iturbide
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Baroness von Aschbrunn und Hohenstadt | |||||
Head of the Imperial House of Mexico | |||||
Tenure | 3 March 1925 – November 1949 | ||||
Born | Mikosdpuszta, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary) | 29 February 1872||||
Died | November 1949 (aged 77) Deva, Romania | ||||
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House | Iturbide | ||||
Father | Salvador, Prince of Iturbide | ||||
Mother | Baroness Gizella María Terezia Mikos de Tarrodháza |
María Josepha Sophia de Iturbide (29 February 1872 – November 1949) was the head of the Imperial House of Mexico from 1925 to 1949. A modest and very religious lady, she played no political role whatsoever. She married twice and had two daughters.
Biography
Maria Josepha was born at
In 1881, the Itúrbide family left Hungary and moved to Venice. They settled in Venice, where Maria Josepha spent her youth, distinguishing herself for her modesty and religious piety. After her father's death in 1895, her mother married again, to Count Emil von Jenison-Walworth in 1900.[1]
Maria Josepha was married to Baron Johann
Following the death of her childless uncle Prince Agustín de Itúrbide in 1925, Maria Josepha inherited whatever claims the Iturbide and Habsburg might have in Mexico, but she played no political role, events in Mexico having made any such claims academic. Republican Mexican liberals had captured and executed Emperor Maximilian in 1867 and conservative, monarchist ideas had been repudiated. Under President Porfirio Díaz, a liberal army general who had fought against the French invasion, diplomatic relations between Mexico and Austria were resumed. The Mexican Revolution (1910–20) had repudiated the long rule of liberal autocratic President Díaz (1876-1910).
Maria Josepha was a very traditional woman, a devout Roman Catholic, and stayed as far away from politics as she could.[2]
Despite her very advanced age, she and her second husband, Charles de Carrière, were interned in 1948 by the Romanian Communist government as class enemies of the people.
Family
Maria Josepha had two daughters from her first marriage:
- Baroness Maria Anna (1909–1962), childless.
- Baroness Maria Gizela (1912–1981). She married Count Gustav von Götzen (d. 1956) and had a son, Count Maximilian von Götzen-Iturbide (b. 1944), who is the current 'Titular Emperor of Mexico' as Maximiliano II. She remarried in 1959 Ottavio Stefano della Porta (1890–1971).
Her second marriage, to Charles de Carrière (1875–1949), was childless.
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