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Without doubt, Archduchess Sophie was the most significant figure of all the women of the imperial house after Maria Theresia. Sophie was born in 1805 to King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife Caroline of Baden. King Maximilian had thirteen children in total including two sets of twin girls; Sophie was one of the second set of ...
She was in favour of strengthening Austria’s presence in the German lands in order to retain its traditional primacy among the German princes. To this end Sophie planned to marry her son to one of the daughters of her sister Maria Ludovika from the Bavarian ruling dynasty of Wittelsbach.
Sophie Friederike Dorothea Maria Josepha. House. Habsburg-Lorraine. Father. Franz Joseph I of Austria. Mother. Elisabeth in Bavaria. Archduchess Sophie of Austria (5 March 1855 – 29 May 1857) was the first child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. She died aged two.
Habsburg. Sophie of Bavaria. Archduchess of Austria (non-ruling member of the dynasty) Born 27 January 1805 in Munich. Died 28 May 1872 in Vienna. The daughter of King Maximilian I of Bavaria, Sophie married Archduke Franz Karl, the brother of Emperor Ferdinand I in 1824.
Daughter of the King of Bavaria, Princess Sophie was married for political reasons to Archduke Franz Karl, second son of Emperor Franz, in 1824. She soon recognized the personal weaknesses of the men who now surrounded her, and although Franz enjoyed the image of the ‘good Emperor’, he was no longer young.
May 14, 2019 · May 14, 2019. • 20 min read. The life of Elisabeth of Austria sounds like a romantic novel: A vivacious Bavarian princess captures the heart of the Austrian emperor. They marry and return to...
Mar 19, 2020 · Princess Sophie of Bavaria 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.
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