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[[Image:Elisabeth Wilhelmine Luise Wuerttemberg 1767 1791 young.jpg|thumb|right]]
'''Elisabeth Wilhelmine of Württemberg''' (b. [[21 April]] [[1767]] [[Treptow-Köpenick|Treptow]], [[Brandenburg]] - d. [[18 February]] [[1790]] [[Vienna]], [[Austria]])
==Family==
She was the eight of the twelve children of [[Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg]] by his wife, [[Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt]]. From all her siblings, only nine survive adulthood: [[Frederick I of Württemberg|Frederick]] (later first King of Württemberg); [[Duke Louis of Württemberg|Ludwig]] (ancestor of the Württemberg-Teck branch of the family and through them a direct-line ancestor of [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]]); [[Eugen of Württemberg (1758-1822)|Eugen]] (who died unmarried); [[Maria (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg)|Sophie Dorothea]] (who, with the name of Maria Feodorovna was Empress of Russia through her marriage to [[Paul I of Russia|Emperor Paul I of Russia]]); Wilhelm (ancestor of the Württemberg-Urach branch); Ferdinand (who died unmarried); [[Fredericka of Württemberg (1765-1785)|Fredericka]] (married with the later [[Peter, Duke of Oldenburg|Grand Duke Peter of Oldenburg]]); [[Karl of Württemberg (1770-1791)|Karl]] (who died young and unmarried in 1791); [[Alexander of Württemberg (1771-1833)|Alexander]] (ancestor of the actual dynastic branch of the House of Württemberg); and [[Henry of Württemberg (1772-1833)|Heinrich]] (who died unmarried).
Elisabeth died in childbirth. She is buried in the [[Imperial Crypt]], in Vienna.▼
==Life==
With only 15-years-old, she was called by the [[Emperor Joseph II]] to Vienna and educated in the ''Salesianerinnenkloster'' where she also converted to the Catholicism. The purprose to these was make her the future wife of Joseph II's nephews [[Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor|Franz]], the later emperor.
In [[Vienna]] on [[6 January]] [[1788]], Elisabeth and Franz were married. By this time, Emperor Joseph took care of an hard orthodontic treatment; the young princess enjoy the emperor's last years with her youthful charm. In the end of [[1789]] Elisabeth became pregnant; however, her condition was very delicate, in part by all the excitement around the much worse growing state of health of the Emperor Joseph. When Joseph received on [[15 February]] [[1790]] the [[Anointing of the Sick]], Elisabeth fell while seeing the fatally ill emperor in faint. At the night of [[17 February]] she bore prematurely a feeble-minded child, [[Archduchess Ludovika Elisabeth of Austria]] who lived only 16 months. Elisabeth didn't survive the childbirth lasting more than 24 hours, anhd died at consecuence of an emergency operation in order to save her life. Two days later, the Emperor Joseph died.
▲Elisabeth
==Ancestry==
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