Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Maria Annunziata Isabella Filomena Sabasia ( born March 24, 1843 in Caserta, † May 4, 1871 in Vienna) was born a Princess of Bourbon - Sicily and by the marriage of Archduchess of Austria.
Life
Maria Annunziata, called " Ciolla ", was the eldest daughter of king Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and Maria Theresa of Austria.
As her sister Mary Immaculate also married Maria Annunziata in the Austrian imperial family of Habsburg.
She was born on October 16, 1862 by proxy in Rome with the widowed Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I., married. On October 21, 1862 followed by the actual marriage ceremony in Venice, where her against her husband traveled in the uniform of a Feldmarschalleutnants.
Mother Sophie, who soon realized that the daughter was threatening ill (she had tuberculosis ), recommended the young couple a long stay in a mild climate and chose for the crown land of Gorizia. Karl Ludwig added, as always, and his fragile wife added at this time also. However, they endured the deposited Country life is not long, and wanted a change of scenery, which gave her more docile man after. However, the new domicile was determined again Sophie, who opted for the quiet Graz, a city official and retired military. The young Southerner did not feel comfortable in Graz, avoided contact with others, was restless and could not find your way around. She felt comfortable only when she became pregnant for the first time. Just six months after the birth of Franz Ferdinand, she was again pregnant, what the physician because of the weak constitution of the young woman shook her head. The physician made Karl Ludwig gently clear that his wife in need of protection and recommended a stay in the south, from which Maria Annunziata but wanted nothing to do and by sat down opposite her husband.
In the spring of 1865, she brought the delicate, frail son Otto Franz Joseph to the world. The young mother fell more and more. Your husband incomprehensible moods and whims, periods of despondency and frantic joy of being alternated. Finally, she had finally had enough of Graz and her husband leaned her desire for instant moving to Vienna. The stern mother Sophie opposite, he was ready for anything. But this saw that his sick, pregnant woman was again marked by death.
The Archduke bought a palace in the favorite street, had rebuilt it and adapt domesticated. Shortly after Christmas 1868, the third son was born, and because of her health situation was expected that the young woman would not recover. But because of their will to live she overcame her illness, visited Viennese balls, Burgtheater and Opera. As a precaution, however, kept them from their sons away, unnecessarily, because they had inherited them their disease.
Still a fourth child she gave birth, in Artstetten at Pöchlarn (Lower Austria ), Margarethe Sophie. A year lasted of death fight against their serious illness, which she lost on 4 May 1871 aged only 28 years.
Despite her poor health, in addition to the tuberculosis they also suffered from epilepsy, she had brought in her marriage four children.
Progeny
- Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914), later the Crown Prince
- Otto Franz Joseph (1865-1906), father of the future Emperor Charles I.
- Ferdinand Karl Ludwig (1868-1915), came in 1911 from the imperial house and called himself only Ferdinand Burg
- Margarethe Sophie (1870-1902) ∞ Albrecht Duke of Württemberg