Archduchess Maria Annunciata | |||||
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Archduchess Karl Ludwig of Austria Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies |
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Born |
Caserta, Two Sicilies |
24 March 1843||||
Died | 22 May 1871 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
(aged 28)||||
Burial | Imperial Crypt | ||||
Spouse | Archduke Charles Louis of Austria | ||||
Issue |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Archduke Otto Francis Archduke Ferdinand Charles Archduchess Margarete Sophie |
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House | Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ||||
Father | Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies | ||||
Mother | Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholic |
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Italian: Maria Annunziata Isabella Filomena Sabasia |
Princess Maria Annunciata Isabella Filomena Sabasia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, full Italian name: Maria Annunziata Isabella Filomena Sabasia, Principessa di Borbone delle Due Sicilie (24 March 1843 – 4 May 1871) was the mother of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the archduke whose assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 precipitated the start of World War I.
Maria Annunciata was born in Caserta, the daughter of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria.
On 21 October 1862 in Venice, she married Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria as his second wife. They had four children :
She died in Vienna, aged 28, from tuberculosis.