Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany

Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria
Princess of Isenburg and Büdingen
File:Erzherzogin Maria Luise Annunziata von Österreich-Toskana.jpg Archduchess Maria Luisa, c. 1860.
Born	(1845-10-31)31 October 1845 Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Died
Spouse	Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen
Issue	Prince Leopold Wolfgang Princess Antonia Princess Maria Prince Franz Joseph Prince Victor Salvator Prince Alfonso Princess Elizabeth Princess Adelaide
Full name Italian: Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Filomena Apollonia Tommasacode: it is deprecated
House	House of Habsburg-Lorraine House of Isenburg-Büdingen
Father	Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Mother	Princess Maria Antonia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (full name: Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Filomena Apollonia Tommasa) (31 October 1845 – 27 October 1917) was a Princess of Tuscany, and later Princess of Isenburg and Büdingen.

Biography

File:Maria Antonietta Grand Duchess of Tuscany and her daughter Maria Luisa.jpg

Archduchess Maria Luisa and her mother, Maria Antonietta Grand Duchess of Tuscany.

Maria Luisawas born in Florence, the eighth daughter of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his second wife, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies. Her paternal grandparents were Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily. Her maternal grandparents were King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and María Isabella of Spain, Infanta of Spain. She was baptized in Florence's Battistero di San Giovanni as Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Filomena Apollonia Tommasa, in honor of his father's sister, Princess Maria Luisa (1799-1857), affectionately called "the little hunchback" by the people of Florence.

Maria Luisa was born in a time of peace and prosperity for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and she was raised in an loving family environment. However, she was first confronted with the dangers of her position at a young age, due to the Revolutions of 1848. In February 1849, the Grand Ducal family decided to go to Gaeta as a security measure. The Grand Duchess Maria Antonia traveled separately with her two younger children, Maria Luisa and Ludwig. The family remained in Gaeta for several months and was unable to return to Florence until July 28, 1849.

Later, Maria Luisa and her family were forced to flee Florence on April 27, 1859, with the outbreak of a revolution inspired by the war by France and Sardinia-Piedmont against Austria as part of the unification of Italy. The family took refuge in Austria. At the end of the war, her father Leopold II abdicated on July 21, and his brother Ferdinand succeeded him as Grand Duke.

On May 31, 1865, at the age of twenty, Maria Luisa married Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen (1838-1899). Her husband was a grandson of Karl, last sovereign Prince of Isenburg. The couple had nine children. Karl died at the age of sixty, and Maria Luisa died during the Great War, in 1917. They are the ancestors of Sophie, Princess of Prussia, wife of Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, the head of the House of Hohenzollern.

Issue

Maria Luisa and Karl had nine children:

• Leopold Wolfgang (1866-1933), succeeded his father as Prince of Isenburg.
• Antonia (1867-1943);
• Maria (1868-1919);
• Franz Joseph (1869-1939);
• Karl Joseph (1871–1951)
• Victor Salvator (1872-1946);
• Alfonso (1875-1951);
• Elizabeth (1877-1943);
• Adelaide (1878-1936);

Ancestry

Family of Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany

16. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor               8. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor                       17. Maria Theresa of Austria               4. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany                             18. Charles III of Spain               9. Maria Louisa of Spain                       19. Maria Amalia of Saxony               2. Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany                                   20. Charles III of Spain (= 18)               10. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies                       21. Maria Amalia of Saxony (= 19)               5. Princess Luisa of the Two Sicilies                             22. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (= 16)               11. Marie Caroline of Austria                       23. Maria Theresa of Austria (= 17)               1. Archduchess Maria Luisa, Princess of Tuscany                                         24. Charles III of Spain (= 18)               12. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (= 10)                       25. Maria Amalia of Saxony (= 19)               6. Francis I of the Two Sicilies                             26. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (= 16)               13. Marie Caroline of Austria (= 11)                       27. Maria Theresa of Austria (= 17)               3. Princess Marie Antoinette of the Two Sicilies                                   28. Charles III of Spain (= 18)               14. Charles IV of Spain                       29. Maria Amalia of Saxony (= 19)               7. Maria Isabella of Spain                             30. Philip, Duke of Parma               15. Maria Luisa of Parma                       31. Princess Louise-Élisabeth of France