Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria

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Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria
Crown Princess of Saxony
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Born (1801-04-08)8 April 1801
Vienna, Austria
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Pillnitz, Germany
Burial Katholische Hofkirche
Spouse Frederick Augustus, Crown Prince of Saxony
Full name
German: Maria Carolina Ferdinanda
House Habsburg-Lorraine
Father Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily
Religion Roman Catholicism

Archduchess Marie Caroline Ferdinanda of Austria, Crown Princess of Saxony (8 April 1801 in Vienna, Austria – 22 May 1832 in Pillnitz, Germany).

Family

Marie Caroline was a daughter of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, later Francis I of Austria after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, and Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, and named after an elder sister who had died in infancy. She belonged to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

Marriage

On 7 October 1819 she married in Dresden, Germany to Prince Frederick Augustus of Saxony, son of Maximilian, Prince of Saxony, and Princess Caroline of Parma. The marriage was childless and unhappy. Marie Caroline suffered from epilepsy and her seizures were so frequent that she could barely perform her duties as Crown Princess. She died, after long suffering, on 22 May 1832 in Pillnitz Palace, near Dresden.[1]

Ancestry

Marie Caroline's parents were double first cousins as they shared all four grandparents (Francis' paternal grandparents were his wife's maternal grandparents and vice versa). Therefore, Marie Caroline only had four great-grandparents, being descended from each of them twice. Further back in his ancestry there is more pedigree collapse due to the close intermarriage between the Houses of Austria and Spain and other Catholic monarchies.

Family of Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Maria Theresa of Austria
Queen of Hungary & Bohemia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
(Francis I of Austria)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Philip V of Spain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Charles III of Spain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Elisabeth Farnese
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Maria Luisa of Spain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Augustus III of Poland
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Maria Amalia of Saxony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Maria Josepha of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Marie Caroline of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Philip V of Spain (= #20)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Charles III of Spain (= #10)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Elisabeth of Parma (= #21)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Augustus III of Poland (= #22)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Maria Amalia of Saxony (= #11)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Maria Josepha of Austria (= #23)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (= #16)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (= #8)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (= #17)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Maria Carolina of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (= #18)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Maria Theresa of Austria (= #9)
Queen of Hungary & Bohemia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (= #19)
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. Kroll, Frank-Lothar. "Die Herrscher Sachsens: Markgrafen, Kurfürsten, Könige. 1089-1918". München, 2007, p. 241