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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.
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.
One such woman was Archduchess Sophie, the mother of Emperor Franz Joseph. The painting is a perfect allegory: Archduchess Sophie is seen leading her son Franz Joseph the last few steps to a throne upon which the imperial insignia already await him – what the proud mother had prepared him for since his earliest childhood has now become ...
Sophie was a devout Catholic and adherent of the anti-liberal clericalist tendency, bitterly opposed to the Josephinian state church and seeing in a reinvigorated Catholic church an important cornerstone in the fight against revolutionary tendencies among the common people.
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.
Jun 23, 2022 · Features. The little Archduchess Sophie (1855-1857) – Hapsburg’s Youngest Blossom. By Elizabeth Jane Timms. 23rd June 2022. The Archduchess Sophie Friederike was born on 5 March 1855 as the...
May 14, 2019 · Struggling to fit into court life, she clashed with Archduchess Sophie, her aunt and mother-in-law. Her husband’s civic duties kept the couple apart, which further isolated the young empress....
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