Maria Leopoldine of Austria

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Maria Leopoldine of Austria
Holy Roman Empress
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Tenure2 July 1648 – 7 August 1649
Born(1632-04-06)6 April 1632
Innsbruck, County of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empire
Died7 August 1649(1649-08-07) (aged 17)
Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire
Burial
Imperial Crypt
, Vienna, Austria
Spouse
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(m. 1648)​
IssueArchduke Charles Joseph of Austria
HouseHabsburg
FatherLeopold V, Archduke of Further Austria
MotherClaudia de' Medici

Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Tyrol (6 April 1632 – 7 August 1649),

Bohemia
. She died in childbirth.

Life

Early years

Maria Leopoldine was born in

Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, Duke of Urbino.[4]

Maria Leopoldine's oldest brother,

regency because of her son's minority. In a letter written to his mother, Elizabeth of England, on 8 September 1641, Charles Louis of the Palatinate (later Elector Palatine) described the intentions of his uncle, King Charles I of England, and Maria Leopoldine's first cousin, Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, to arrange a marriage between the 9-years-old archduchess and himself; the marriage between them was to end "all grudges betweene our families".[5]
However, the union never took place.

Marriage and death

Imperial Crypt, Vienna
.
Portrait by Justus Sustermans

In Linz on 2 July 1648 Maria Leopoldine married the widowed Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, thereby becoming Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, Queen of the Germans, Queen of Hungary and Queen of Bohemia. The wedding ceremony was splendid;[6] The composer Andreas Rauch celebrated the marriage as "anticipating (with the help of Divine Providence) the most beautiful end of the Thirty Years' War"[7] and an opera titled I Trionfi d'Amore, produced by Giovanni Felice Sances, was meant to commemorate the event, but the Prague premiere was canceled at the last moment when King Władysław IV Vasa (Ferdinand III's brother-in-law) died within two months of the wedding; the planned Pressburg performance apparently never took place.[7] The new empress was as closely related to her husband as her cousin and predecessor, Maria Anna of Spain; both marriages were means by which the House of Habsburg, frequently reinforced itself,[8] and ultimately succumbed to inbreeding.

Soon after her wedding, Maria Leopoldine became pregnant, and was

Imperial Crypt in Vienna. The writer Wolf Helmhardt, Baron von Hohberg, then at the beginning of his career, sent to Emperor Ferdinand III a poem written in honour of the late Empress, called "Poem of tears" (de: Klag-Gedicht).[12]

Ancestry

References

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  2. ^ a b c d Wurzbach 1861, p. 52.
  3. ^ Hartland 1854, p. 69.
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  10. ^ Coxe, William (1807). History of the House of Austria, from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh, to the Death of Leopold the Second. Luke Hansard and Sons.
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  17. ^ a b "The Medici Granducal Archive" (PDF). The Medici Archive Project. pp. 12–13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2005. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  18. ^ a b "Christine of Lorraine (c. 1571–1637)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Gale Research. 2002. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

Further reading

Royal titles

Maria Leopoldine of Austria
Born: 6 April 1632 Died: 7 July 1649
Royal titles
Vacant
Title last held by
Maria Anna of Spain
Bohemia;
Archduchess consort of Austria

1648–1649 		Vacant
Title next held by
Eleanor of Mantua
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