Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony

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Maximilian
Katholische Hofkirche
Spouses
(m. 1792; died 1804)
Issue
Names
Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria

Prince Maximilian of Saxony (Maximilian Maria Joseph Anton Johann Baptist Johann Evangelista Ignaz Augustin Xavier Aloys Johann Nepomuk Januar Hermenegild Agnellis Paschalis; 13 April 1759 – 3 January 1838) was a German prince and a member of the

Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria
.

Life

Since he was the youngest son of the family, Maximilian initially had little chance to inherit the

Anthony, dying in infancy, except Maria Augusta, Frederick Augustus's only surviving offspring. After the creation of the Kingdom of Saxony
in 1806, Maximilian became a Prince of Saxony.

After the death of Frederick Augustus in 1827, Anthony succeeded him as King. Maximilian became first in line to the Saxon throne as Hereditary Prince. However, three years later, on 1 September 1830, during the Autumn Disturbances, he renounced his rights of succession in favour of his eldest son, Frederick Augustus. He died eight years later, aged seventy-eight.

Marriages and issue

Ferdinand, Duke of Parma and Maria Amalia of Austria, by proxy, and in person in Dresden
on 9 May 1792.

Maximilian and Carolina bore eight children:

In

Louis of Etruria and niece of his first wife Carolina, by proxy, and the two wed in person in Dresden
on 7 November 1825. She was forty-three years younger than her husband; they had no children.

Honours

Ancestry

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