Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1738)

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (Maria Anna Josepha Antonia; 6 October 1738 19 November 1789) was the second child of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. As a child, and for a time the eldest surviving child, she was heiress presumptive, but she suffered from ill health and physical disability, and did not marry. In 1766 she became abbess of the Theresian Institution of Noble Ladies in Prague. Soon thereafter she moved to Klagenfurt and remained there for the rest of her life. Her palace in Klagenfurt, the Mariannengasse, now houses the Episcopal Palace.

Archduchess Maria Anna
Portrait by Martin van Meytens, 1760s
Born(1738-10-06)6 October 1738
Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire
Died19 November 1789(1789-11-19) (aged 51)
Klagenfurt, Duchy of Carinthia, Holy Roman Empire
Names
  • English: Mary Anne Josephine Antonia
  • German: Maria Anna Josefa Antonia
  • French: Marie Anne Joséphine Antoinette
HouseHabsburg-Lorraine
FatherFrancis I, Holy Roman Emperor
MotherMaria Theresa
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