Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska

Therese Cunegond of Poland ( born March 4, 1676 in Krakow, † March 10 1730 in Venice) was a daughter of King John III. Sobieski of Poland and the second wife of Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria.

She taught at the wedding on January 2, 1695, the handsome dowry of 500,000 thalers in his second marriage a. After the Battle of Blenheim in 1704 it conferred on the Emperor the regency over the Rentamt Munich, but after three months, she fled with her ​​confessor to Venice at her mother and left her children behind in Munich.

The four older princes were brought in 1706 to Klagenfurt, the two younger and the daughter of Maria Anna Caroline remained in Munich. In Venice, the Electress lived in modest circumstances. Only after the Peace of Rastatt she saw on 3 April 1715 in Lichtenberg Castle near Landsberg am Lech her ​​husband and children again. She is buried in the Theatinerkirche.

Children of Max Emanuel and Therese Cunegonde

  • Unnamed son ( 1695), stillborn
  • Maria Anna Caroline (1696-1750), Princess of Bavaria, joined on October 29, 1720 under the name " Therese Emanuele de corde Jesu" Munich Klarissinenkloster
  • Karl Albrecht (1697-1745), röm.-dt. Emperor, King of Bohemia and Elector of Bavaria
  • Philipp Moritz Maria (1698-1719), Prince of Bavaria, elected in ignorance of his death still days after his death, the bishop of Paderborn and Muenster
  • Ferdinand Maria Innocent (1699-1738), Prince of Bavaria, Imperial Field Marshal
  • Clemens August (1700-1761), Prince of Bavaria, Elector and Archbishop of Cologne, high - and German masters, Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim, Regensburg, Münster, Paderborn, and Osnabrück, etc.
  • Wilhelm (1701-1704), Prince of Bavaria
  • Alois Johann Adolf (1702-1705), Prince of Bavaria
  • Johann Theodor (1703-1763), Prince of Bavaria, cardinal, Prince-Bishop of Regensburg, Freising and Liège
  • Maximilian Emanuel Thomas (1704-1709), Prince of Bavaria
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