Archduchess Margaretha of Austria
| Archduchess Margaretha | |
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| Archduchess of Austria Princess of Tuscany |
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| Born |
8 May 1894 Lemberg, Austria |
| Died | 21 June 1986 (aged 92) Viareggio |
| Spouse | Francesco Taliani, Marchese di Marchio |
| House | Habsburg-Tuscany |
| Father | Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria |
| Mother | Infanta Blanca of Spain |
Archduchess Margaretha of Austria German: Margaretha, Erzherzogin von Österreich-Toskana;(8 May 1894 – 21 January 1986) was a daughter of Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria and Infanta Blanca of Spain. She was member of the Tuscan branch of the Imperial House of Habsburg, an Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany by birth. After the fall of the Austro Hungary Empire, she lived in exile, first in Barcelona and from the 1930s until the end of her life in Italy. In 1937, she married an Italian diplomat, Marchese Francesco Maria Taliani de Marchio. The couple, who had married in their forties, did not have children.
Archduchess Margaretha was born on 8 May 1894 at Lemberg, Galicia, (modern day Lviv, in western Ukraine), then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She was the third among the ten children of Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria and of his wife Infanta Blanca of Spain. She was christened Margarita Raineria Maria Antonia Blanka Leopoldine Beatrix Anna Josephina. Called Meg within her family, she received the name Margarethe in honor of her maternal grandmother, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, who died a year later.
Archduchess Margaretha grew up in the last period of Habsburg monarchy. She was raised with her many brothers and sisters in the various properties owned by he parents. While in Vienna, they lived at the Palais Toskana with Schloss Wilhelminenberg as their country state. Vacations were spent in Italy where Infanta Blanca owned a rural property near Viareggio. Theirs was a multi-cultural household as Margaretha's paternal ancestors had reigned in Austria, Tuscany and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Her maternal family had reigned in Spain, Parma, Modena, Portugal and France.
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