Maria Theresa of Austria | |||||
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Queen consort of Sardinia | |||||
Consort | 27 April 1831 – 23 March 1849 | ||||
Born | 21 March 1801 Vienna, Austrian Empire |
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Died | 12 January 1855 Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia |
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Burial | 16 January 1855 Royal Basilica of Superga, Italy |
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Spouse | Charles Albert of Sardinia | ||||
Issue Detail |
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa |
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House |
House of Habsburg-Lorraine (by birth) House of Savoy (by marriage) |
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Father | Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany | ||||
Mother | Luisa of Naples and Sicily |
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Maria Theresia Franziska Josepha Johanna Benedikta (German) Maria Teresa Francesca Giuseppa Giovanna Benedetta (Italian) |
Maria Theresia Franziska Josepha Johanna Benedikta (German)
Maria Theresa of Austria (21 March 1801 – 12 January 1855) was born an Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany. She was a daughter of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Luisa of Naples and Sicily. She was named after her double great grandmother Empress Maria Theresa. In 1817, she married Charles Albert of Sardinia and subsequently became the Queen of Sardinia upon her husband's accession to the throne in 1831.
Maria Theresia Franziska Josepha Johanna Benedikta (German) was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and an Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Bohemia, Hungary, and Tuscany by birth. She was born in Vienna during the exile of her parents and their many children, due to Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Tuscany. Her father was Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and her mother was Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily, who died giving birth to a stillborn son one year after Maria Theresa's birth.
After the Restoration of 1814, Ferdinando III was made Elector of the secularized archbishopric Salzburg and the family moved to Würzburg.
Maria Theresa married in Florence on 30 September 1817 Charles Albert of Sardinia (Paris, 29 October 1798 - Porto, 28 July 1849), and a wedding mass was celebrated on 2 October in Florence Cathedral. In Italian, her name was Maria Teresa Francesca Giuseppa Giovanna Benedetta.