Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg

Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (Maria Dorothea Luise Wilhelmine Caroline; 1 November 1797 in Carlsruhe (now Pokój), Silesia – 30 March 1855 in Pest, Hungary) was the daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756–1817) and Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg (1780–1857).[citation needed]

Maria Dorothea
Archduchess Joseph of Austria
Born(1797-11-01)1 November 1797
Carlsruhe (Pokój), Silesia
Died30 March 1855(1855-03-30) (aged 57)
Budapest, Hungary
Spouse
(m. 1819; died 1847)
Issue
Names
Maria Dorothea Luise Wilhelmine Caroline
HouseWürttemberg
FatherDuke Louis of Württemberg
MotherPrincess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
ReligionLutheranism

Family

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Maria Dorothea in 1818.
 
Archduchess Maria Dorothea

Maria Dorothea was the eldest of five children born to Duke Louis of Württemberg and his second wife Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg. She was born in Carlsruhe (now Pokój), Silesia, now Poland.

Her brother Alexander was the grandfather of Mary of Teck, the future queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom, Thus, Maria Dorothea was the great-aunt of queen consort Mary of United Kingdom.

She was tutored by her governess, the known memoirist Alexandrine des Écherolles, who described her pupils in her memoirs.[1]

Marriage and children

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She was the third wife of Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, to whom she was married on 24 August 1819. They had five children:

Name Portrait Lifespan Notes
Archduchess Franziska Marie of Austria
1820-
1820
Died in infancy.
Archduke Alexander of Austria
  1825-
1837
Died in childhood
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria
  1831-
1903
Married firstly Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este and had issue;

married secondly Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and had issue.

Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria
  1833-
1905
Married Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and had issue.
Archduchess Marie Henriette of Austria   1836-
1902
Married Leopold II of Belgium and had issue

Ancestry

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References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Side Lights on the Reign of Terror; being the memoirs of Mademoiselle des Écherolles (London, 1900)

Source

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  • Keith, Alexander (1867). "Origin of the Mission to the Jews at Pesth". The Sunday at home: a family magazine for Sabbath reading. Vol. 14. London: The Religious Tract Society. pp. 212-216, 232-237, 245-248, 261-263.
  • Kovács, Ábrahám (2006). The History of the Free Church of Scotland's Mission to the Jews in Budapest and its impact on the Reformed Church of Hungary 1841-1914. Frankfurt am Main; New York; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Wien: Peter Lang Verlag.
  • Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Royal Families of the World, Volume 1: Europe & Latin America (1977), London, UK: Burke's Peerage Ltd, page 22.