Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria

{{Infobox royalty

| name = Maria Anna Josepha

| title = Electoral Princess of the Palatinate

| image = Anonym Erzherzogin Maria Anna Josepha.jpg

| caption = Portrait, c. 1678

| spouse = {{marriage|Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine|1678}}

| house = Habsburg

| father = Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor

| mother = Eleonora Gonzaga

| birth_date = 20 December 1654

| birth_place = Free Imperial City of Regensburg, Holy Roman Empire

| death_date = {{dda|4 April 1689|30 December 1654|df=y}}

| death_place = Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire

| place of burial = Imperial Crypt

}}

Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (20 December 1654 – 4 April 1689)Brigitte Hamann: Die Habsburger. Ein Biographisches Lexikon., Ueberreuter, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-8000-3247-3, p.291. was an Austrian archduchess who became Electoral Princess of the Palatinate as the wife of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine.

Life

= Early life =

Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha was born on 30 December 1654 as the third child and daughter of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608–1657) and his third wife, Eleonora Gonzaga (1630–1686). She also had had seven half-siblings from the previous two marriages of her father, only four of whom were still alive at the time of her birth. Two months after she was born, her eldest full sibling, Archduchess Theresa Maria Josepha (1652–1653) died at the age of one and a half years. Her only younger sibling, Archduke Ferdinand Joseph Alois (1657–1658) was born in 1657 and died in infancy.

= Marriage =

On 25 October 1678, twenty-four-years-old Maria Anna married twenty-years-old Electoral Prince Johann Wilhelm (John William) (1658–1716) from the House of Wittelsbach in Wiener Neustadt. He was the eldest son and heir of Philip William, Elector Palatine (1615–1690), and the brother-in-law of Maria Anna's eldest brother, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640–1705). The wedding ceremony was performed by Archbishop Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch.Ferdinand C. Böheim, Wendelin Boeheim: Chronicle of Wiener-Neustadt, vol. 2, Prandel & Ewald, 1863, p. 173. The couple settled in Düsseldorf and led an elaborate household there.K. Strauven: About Artistic life and work in Dusseldorf to Düsseldorf school of painting under Director Schadow, H. Voss, 1862, p. 12. In 1679, her father-in-law gifted them the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.{{Cite web |title=Kurfürst Jan Wellem |url=http://www.geschichtswerkstatt-duesseldorf.de/historischestextepublikationen/altstadt/50410595b3136b104.html |access-date=6 June 2014 |website=www.geschichtswerkstatt-duesseldorf.de}} Upon Philip William's death, Johann Wilhelm became Elector Palatine and Duke of Neuburg.

= Issue =

During her marriage, Maria Anna gave birth to two children, but neither survived infancy:Gustav Prümm: A win for life, Books on Demand, 2009, p. 54.{{Cite web|title=Complete Genealogy of the House of Wittelsbach|url=http://genealogy.euweb.cz/wittel/wittel4.html#JW|access-date=6 June 2014|website=genealogy.euweb.cz}}

Son (born and died 6 February 1683).
Son (born and died 5 February 1686).

= Death =

Maria Anna died of tuberculosis during a visit to Vienna. She was buried there in the Imperial Crypt beneath the Capuchin Church, the principal place of burial for members of the House of Habsburg.

Ancestry

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|1= 1. Maria Anna Josepha of Austria

|2= 2. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor

|3= 3. Eleanor Gonzaga

|4= 4. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor{{NDB|5|85|86|Ferdinand III.|Eder, Karl|118532529}}

|5= 5. Maria Anna of Bavaria (≠ 9)

|6= 6. Charles II Gonzaga{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gonzaga-eleonora-ii-1628-1686 |title=Gonzaga, Eleonora II (1628–1686) |encyclopedia=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia |publisher=Gale Research |year=2002 |access-date=2018-08-28 |df=dmy-all}}

|7= 7. Maria Gonzaga

|8= 8. Charles II of Austria{{NDB|5|83|85|Ferdinand II.|Eder, Karl|118532510}}

|9= 9. Maria Anna of Bavaria (≠ 5)

|10=10. William V, Duke of Bavaria{{BLKO|wstitle=Habsburg, Maria Anna von Bayern|volume=7 |page=23}}

|11=11. Renata of Lorraine

|12=12. Charles I, Duke of Mantua{{cite web |url=http://www.genmarenostrum.com/pagine-lettere/letterag/gonzaga/GONZAGA2.htm |title=GONZAGA: LINEA SOVRANA DI MANTOVA |language=it |publisher=Società Genealogica Italiana [Italian Genealogical Society] |work=Enciclopedia genealogica del Mediterraneo |access-date=2018-08-29 |df=dmy-all}}

|13=13. Catherine of Mayenne

|14=14. Francesco IV Gonzaga{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gonzaga-maria-1609-1660 |title=Gonzaga, Maria (1609–1660) |encyclopedia=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia |publisher=Gale Research |year=2002 |access-date=2018-08-28 |df=dmy-all}}

|15=15. Margaret of Savoy

|16=16. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor{{BLKO|wstitle=Habsburg, Karl II. von Steiermark|volume=6 |page=352}}

|17=17. Anne of Bohemia and Hungary

|18=18. Albert V, Duke of Bavaria{{BLKO|wstitle=Habsburg, Maria von Bayern |volume=7 |page=20}} (= 20)

|19=19. Anna of Austria (= 21)

|20=20. Albert V, Duke of Bavaria{{cite ADB|42|717|723|Wilhelm V. (Herzog von Bayern)|Sigmund Ritter von Riezler|ADB:Wilhelm V. (Herzog von Bayern)}} (= 18)

|21=21. Anna of Austria (= 19)

|22=22. Francis I, Duke of Lorraine{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/christinaofdenma00adyj |title=Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 |last=Cartwright |first=Julia Mary |publisher=E. P. Dutton |year=1913 |location=New York |pages=536–539}}

|23=23. Christina of Denmark

|24=24. Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers

|25=25. Henriette of Cleves

|26=26. Charles, Duke of Mayenne

|27=27. Henriette of Savoy, Marquise de Villars

|28=28. Vincenzo I Gonzaga

|29=29. Eleonora de' Medici

|30=30. Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy

|31=31. Catherine Michaela of Spain

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Notes

References

Harm Klueting, Wolfgang Schmale: The Empire and its territorial states in the 17th and 18th centuries, Volume 10, LIT Edit. Münster, 2004, p. 69.
Constantin von Wurzbach: [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLK%C3%96:Habsburg,_Maria_Anna_Josepha Maria Anna Josepha]. Nr. 219. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, vol. 7, Edit. L. C. Zamarski, Vienna 1861, p. 29.