Maria Josepha of Austria

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Maria Josepha of Austria
Maria Josepha of Austria

Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria or Marie Josefa (German: Maria Josepha von Habsburg, Erzherzogin von Österreich, Polish: Maria Józefa Habsburżanka); (born December 8, 1699, in Vienna - died November 17, 1757, in Dresden) was Archduchess of Austria; after her marriage, Kurfürstin (Electress) of Saxony and Queen of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. She was born an Archduchess of Austria as a daughter of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor.

María Josefa of Austria, Queen of Poland.
María Josefa of Austria, Queen of Poland.

On August 20, 1719, Maria Josepha married Frederick Augustus II, Elector of Saxony (1733-1763), who became King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as August III the Saxon. Through this marriage between the Houses of Wettin and Habsburg, Frederick Augustus II's father, August II the Strong, hoped to place Saxony in a better position should there arise a war of succession to the Austrian territories. The couple's eldest surviving son, Frederick Christian, eventually succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony.

The children of Maria Josepha and August were:

  1. Friedrich August (1720-1721);
  2. Joseph (1721-1728);
  3. Frederick Christian (1722-1763), Elector of Saxony;
  4. Maria Amalia Christina (1724-1760), who married Charles III of Spain;
  5. Maria Margaretha (1727-1734);
  6. Maria Anna Sophia (1728-1797), who married Maximilian III, Elector of Bavaria;
  7. Franz Xaver (1730-1806), Regent of Saxony, 1763 – 1768;
  8. Marie-Josèphe (1731-1767), who married Louis of Bourbon, Dauphin of France (1729-1765), son of King Louis XV of France (1710-1774), and became the mother of Louis XVI of France;
  9. Carl Christian (1733-1796), Count of Courland;
  10. Maria Christina Anna (1735-1782), Reigning Abbess of Remiremont;
  11. Maria Elisabeth Apollonia (1736-1818);
  12. Albert Kasimir August (1738-1822);
  13. Clemens Wenzeslaus (1739-1812), Elector and Archbishop of Trier; and
  14. Maria Kunigunde Dorothe (1740-1826), Reigning Abbess of Thorn and Essen.
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