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Mar 11, 2015 · The answer lies in family favoritism. Empress Maria Theresa, who ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire for 40 eventful years, produced 16 children. It seems that she only liked one of them: Maria Christina, who happened to be born on Maria Theresa’s own birthday. Every other sibling was used as a pawn in the empire’s political ambitions.
Museum Gipsoteca Antonio CanovaPossagno, Italy. In August 1798, Duke Albert von Sachsen-Teschen commissioned a monument to honor his wife, Archduchess Maria Cristina of Austria, who died a few months earlier. The great novelty of the creation lies in the choice of the pyramid shape given to the tomb: the idea reworked an old project, never ...
Maria Anna of Bavaria. Maria Christina of Austria (10 November 1574 – 6 April 1621), was a Princess of Transylvania by marriage to Sigismund Báthory, and for a period in 1598 elected sovereign Princess regnant of Transylvania .
Feb 23, 2024 · Maria Christina was born on July 21, 1858, in Gross-Seelowitz, Moravia, which is now in the Czech Republic. She was the daughter of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria. In 1879, she married Prince Alfonso XII of Spain, who became king in 1886. Maria Christina became queen consort of Spain.
Maria Christina of Austria; edit. Language Label Description Also known as; English: Princess Maria Christina I, Princess of Transylvania. Princess Consort of ...
Displayed objects +. Order of the Starred Cross (or Military order of Maria Teresa of Austria): La reina porta el lazo y venera de la orden austriaca de la Cruz Estrellada. . La reina recibió la Cruz Estrellada en 1830, publicada en la Gaceta de Madrid de 20 de marzo de 1830 (Proyecto catalogación elementos heráldicos y falerísticos, Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealog
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