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Princess Sophie of Bavaria. Sophie Friederike Dorothee Wilhelmine, Princess of Bavaria (27 January 1805 – 28 May 1872) was born to King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife Caroline of Baden. She was the identical twin sister of Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony as wife of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony.
In 1853, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, the domineering mother of 23-year-old Emperor Francis Joseph, preferring to have a niece as a daughter-in-law rather than a stranger, arranged a marriage between her son and her sister Ludovika's eldest daughter, Helene.
Princess Sophie Friederike Dorothea Wilhelmine of Bavaria was born on January 27, 1805 in Munich, the capital of the then-electorate of Bavaria. She was the daughter of Maximilian Joseph, Elector and later, the first King of Bavaria, with his second wife, Caroline of Baden.
The daughter of King Maximilian I of Bavaria (1756–1825) and his second wife Karoline of Baden (1776–1841), Sophie Friederike Dorothea Wilhelmine was born on 27 January 1805 in Munich together with her twin sister Maria Anna (1805–1877). Outstandingly intelligent and strong-willed, she was bitterly disappointed when dynastic considerations led to an arranged marriage with
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg ( Sophie Marie Franziska Antonia Ignatia Alberta von Hohenberg; 24 July 1901 – 27 October 1990) was the only daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, both of whom were assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. This assassination triggered the First World War, thus ...
Princess Sophie of Bavaria (Sophie Friederike Dorothea Wilhelmine; 27 January 1805 – 28 May 1872) was the daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife, Caroline of Baden. The identical twin sister of Queen Maria Anna of Saxony, Sophie became Archduchess of Austria by marriage to Archduke Franz Karl of Austria.
She was the identical twin sister of Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony as wife of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony. Her paternal half-sister, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, had married the groom"s widowed father, Francis II, in 1816. Sophie and Franz Karl had six children. At the time she was called "the only man at court".
