Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria

Maria Anna Josepha Augusta of Bavaria ( born August 7, 1734 Schloss Nymphenburg, † May 7, 1776 in Munich) was a Bavarian princess by marriage Margravine of Baden.

Life

Maria Anna was a daughter of the Elector and later Emperor Charles VII Albert of Bavaria (1697-1745) from his marriage to Maria Amalie (1701-1756), daughter of Emperor Joseph I.

On July 10, 1755 married Princess Maria Anna in Ettlingen to Margrave Ludwig Georg Simpert of Baden -Baden ( 1702-1761 ). Maria Anna's mother pressed her daughter to the usual 300 years renunciation of inheritance on this occasion not to be explained in order to justify a female succession in Bavaria. Maria Anna but eventually leaned her brother, who wanted to prevent Baden delay political advantages from the link, and said the renunciation of inheritance but from. Ludwig Georg had his new brother in law a probayerische policy in the Swabian circle represent and promote trade with West Germany Kurbayerns. On the occasion of the marriage a commemorative coin was coined in Baden which is a half-length portrait of the Marchioness and on the back of a Bavarian- a Baden alliance coat of arms in the Avers.

The marriage remained childless, and the main political goal of the parties, the continuation of the Catholic branch of Baden -Baden could not be reached. The country fell to the Protestant line of Baden- Durlach. After the death of her husband after six years of marriage, Maria Anna returned to Munich and lived until her death at the court of her brother Maximilian III. Together with her sister Maria Antonia and her sister Maria Anna, she translated Mercier's 1773 drama " L' Indigent " under the name " The distressed sufferer " into German.

Maria Anna died 41 years old and was buried in the Munich Theatinerkirche. Her heart was buried separately and is located in the chapel Altöttings.