Maria Wilhelmina von Neipperg
Maria Wilhelmina von Auersperg, born Countess von Neipperg ( born April 30, 1738 † October 21, 1775 ) was a mistress of Emperor Franz I. Stephan von Habsburg-Lothringen.
Biography
She was the daughter of Count Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg and Countess Franziska Maria Theresa of Khevenhüller Frankenburg. Father's side, she was the granddaughter of Eberhard Friedrich, Freiherr von Neipperg, and Margareta Lucretia by Hornberg and mother of Franz Ferdinand Anton, Graf Khevenhüller Frankenburg, and Maria Theresa, Baroness von Lubetich and Chapelot. Maria's father was an educator since 1723, and later a good friend of the Emperor Franz I. Stephan von Habsburg-Lothringen.
Her father, she worked with 16 years ago at court, where she attracted due to its extraordinary beauty and its natural, amiable nature stir. So she was soon called la belle Princesse, with her beautiful hands were particularly praised. She was a maid of honor to the Empress Maria Theresa and lived in the palace of Schönbrunn. There she attracted the attention of the emperor. In April 1756 (according to other sources 1755 ) married Maria Wilhelmina (allegedly on the orders of Maria Theresa) the widowed Prince Johann Adam von Auersperg, a son of Heinrich Joseph Johann, Prince of Auersperg, and Maria Dominika, Princess of Liechtenstein. He was the maternal grandson of Johann Adam Andreas, Prince of Liechtenstein, Duke of Opava and hunters village, and his wife Erdmuthe Maria Theresia, Princess of Dietrich stone Nikolsburg. The couple then lived at the Palais Auersperg in Vienna. Although you had with Johann Adam no own offspring, but took care of his children from his first marriage. Later she lived as mistress of the emperor in the imperial palace, though she was still the wife of Prince Auersperg.
She accompanied the emperor in 1765 to the wedding of his son Leopold to the Spanish Infanta Maria Luisa in Innsbruck, where he died suddenly. After Stephen 's death, Franz Wilhelmine pulled back more and more into private life and died on October 21, 1775, just 37 years old. Joachim Wilhelm von Brawe their dedicated his tragedy " Brutus ".