Maria Leopoldine of Austria

Maria Leopoldine of Austria ( born April 6, 1632 Innsbruck; † August 7, 1649 in Vienna) was an Archduchess of Austria and by marriage Roman- German Empress and Queen of Bohemia and Hungary.

Life

Maria Leopoldine was the youngest daughter of Archduke Leopold V of Austria - Tyrol (1586-1632) from his marriage to Claudia de ' Medici (1604-1648), daughter of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany.

On July 2, 1648 married in pompous ceremony in Linz, as his second wife, the widowed Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III. ( 1608-1657 ). With her husband she was more closely related than the first wife Maria Anna of Austria.

On August 7, 1649 Maria Leopoldine gave birth to a son in Vienna. On the consequences of this birth she died at age 17 on the same day, after 13 months of marriage. The writer Wolfhelm Hardt Hohberg wrote, at the beginning of his literary work in 1649, addressed to the Emperor Ferdinand Klag - poem on the death of the Empress Maria Leopoldina.

Maria Leopoldine was buried in the crypt of the Capuchin Crypt Leopold in Vienna.

Progeny

On August 7, 1649 Maria Leopoldine gave birth to a son in Vienna:

• Karl Joseph of Austria (1649-1664), Bishop of Passau, Olomouc and Breslau, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order