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Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor. Mother. Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily. Archduchess Marie Carolina Ferdinanda of Austria (8 April 1801 – 22 May 1832) was Crown Princess of Saxony as the wife of Frederick Augustus, Crown Prince of Saxony .
Archduchess Karoline Marie; Born 5 September 1869 Altmünster, Austria-Hungary: Died: 12 May 1945 (aged 75) Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary: Spouse: Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Issue: Prince August Princess Klementine Princess Maria Karoline Prince Rainer Prince Philipp Princess Theresia Princess Leopoldine Prince Franz
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Dec 3, 2022 · Anne-Marie Stummer Archduchess Caroline of Austria (1978-2007) Archduchess Stephanie of Austria (1979-) m. Nikolaus Georg Hermann Halbgebauer Katharina Halbgebauer (2008-) Archduchess Isabelle of Austria (1981-) Archduke Michael Salvator of Austria (1949-) m. Eva Antonia von Hofmann; Archduchess Hedwig of Austria (1896-1970) m. Count Bernhard ...
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Born on 13 August 1752 at the Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Maria Carolina was the thirteenth and sixth surviving child of Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia and ruler of the Habsburg dominions, and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She was a namesake of her elder sisters – Maria Carolina, who died two weeks after her first birthday, and Maria C...
Fall of Tanucci
The fifteen-year-old Queen of Naples journeyed at leisure from Vienna to Naples, making stops at Mantua, Bologna, Florence, and Rome on the way. She entered the Kingdom of Naples on 12 May 1768, disembarking at Terracina, where she took leave of her native attendants. From Terracina, she and her remaining suite, comprising her brother, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain, ventured to Poztella, where she met her husband, whom she found "very ugly". To the Countess of L...
Acton and the military
Without Tanucci in government, the Queen alone ruled Naples and Sicily, assisted by her French-born, English favourite, Sir John Acton, from 1778 onwards. Acting on her brother the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II's advice, Maria Carolina and Acton revamped the Neapolitan navy, hitherto neglected, opening 4 marine colleges and commissioning 150 ships of various sizes. The merchant navy, too, was augmented by trade pacts with Russia and Genoa. Charles III, having declared war on Great Britain in a...
Artistic patronage and the death of Charles III
Maria Carolina patronised German-Swiss artists, foremostly Angelica Kauffman, who famously painted the Queen's family in an informal garden setting in 1783, and gave her daughters lessons in drawing. Maria Carolina showered Kauffman with gifts, but she preferred the artistic circles in Rome to Naples. The Queen's patronage was not restricted to portrait painters: she allotted landscape painter Jacob Philipp Hackert a wing of the palace at Francavilla. Like Kauffman, he gave lessons to the Que...
Bibliography
1. Acton, Harold (1956). Bourbons of Naples. Methuen & Co.: London. 2. Bearne, Catherine Mary (1907). A Sister of Marie Antoinette: The Life-Story of Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples. T. Fisher Unwin: London 3. Crankshaw, Edward (1969). Maria Theresa. Longman Publishers: London. 4. Davis, John Anthony (2006). Naples and Napoleon: southern Italy and the European revolutions (1780–1860). Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 0-19-820755-7 5. Fraser, Antonia (2002). Marie Antoinette: The Journey....
views 1,303,327 updated. Maria Carolina (1752–1814) Queen-consort of Ferdinand I, king of Naples and Sicily, who exercised the real power behind the throne . Name variations: Maria of Austria; Marie Caroline; Mary Carolina or Mary Caroline; Maria Karolina.
Nov 21, 2023 · Archduchess Marie Carolina Ferdinanda of Austria (8 April 1801 – 22 May 1832) was Crown Princess of Saxony as the wife of Frederick Augustus, Crown Prince of Saxony.
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