Princess Anna of Saxony (1836–1859)

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Anna
Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia
Grand Princess of Tuscany
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Born(1836-01-04)4 January 1836
Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony
Died10 February 1859(1859-02-10) (aged 23)
Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Burial
Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence
Spouse
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(m. 1856)​
Issue Archduchess Maria Antonia
Names
German: Anna Maria Maximiliane Stephania Karoline Johanna Luisa Xaveria Nepomucena Aloysia Benedicta
House Wettin
Father John of Saxony
Mother Amalie Auguste of Bavaria

Princess Anna of Saxony (Full German name: Prinzessin Anna Maria Maximiliane Stephania Karoline Johanna Luisa Xaveria Nepomucena Aloysia Benedicta von Sachsen, Herzogin zu Sachsen [1] ) was a princess of Saxony by virtue of birth and Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany by virtue of marriage.

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Early life and ancestry

Born into the main branch of an ancient German House of Wettin, as daughter of John of Saxony and his wife, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria. [2] She was born 4 January 1836 in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, and died 10 February 1859 in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. [3]

Anna Maria was her parents' seventh child and fourth eldest daughter, and a younger sister of Albert of Saxony and George of Saxony. [4] Through her marriage to Archduke Ferdinand, Grand Prince of Tuscany in 1856, [2] Anna Maria became a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and an Archduchess and Princess of Austria as well as a Princess of Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, and Tuscany.

She died shortly before her husband succeeded his father as Grand Duke of Tuscany. [5]

Marriage and issue

Anna married the future Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, eldest son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany by his first wife, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, on 24 November 1856 in Dresden. [6] She was his first wife.

Anna and Ferdinand had two children:

Death

Anna Maria died on 10 February 1859, at the age of 23. Her body was buried in Santa Chiara, Naples, at that time Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. [7]

Ancestry

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00038136&tree=LEO
  2. 1 2 Louda, Jiřı́ (1999). Lines of succession. Leicester : Blitz Editions. p. 201. ISBN   978-1-85605-469-0.
  3. ↑ https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00038136&tree=LEO
  4. ↑ https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00013454&tree=LEO
  5. ↑ https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00014410&tree=LEO
  6. ↑ http://w.genealogy.euweb.cz/habsburg/habsburg8.html
  7. ↑ http://www.royaltyguide.nl/families/fam-U-V-W/wettin/saxonyalbert4.htm
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