Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria

Archduchess Maria Josepha Gabriella Johana Antonia Ana of Austria (19 March 1751 Vienna, Austria) - (15 October 1767 Vienna, Austria). She was the daughter of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708-1765) and Maria Theresa of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (1717-1780). She died of smallpox at the age of 16 and was buried in the Imperial Crypt, Vienna, Austria.

Maria Josepha was terrified of dying of smallpox after the death of her older sister Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela in 1762, and sister-in-law Maria Josepha of Bavaria, second wife of her elder brother Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, in May 1767. Her fears were realized when she died of smallpox on the very day she was to have left Vienna for her journey across the alps to marry the King of Naples, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. She contracted smallpox because her mother, Maria Theresa, insisted that she go and pray at the tomb of her sister in law, who had recently died of the disease. The tomb was improperly sealed and Maria Jospha caught the disease, dying three days later.

After her death, her sister Marie Caroline of Austria was given as a bride to the King of Naples in her place.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria
2= 2. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
3= 3. Maria Theresa of Austria
Queen of Hungary & Bohemia
4= 4. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine
5= 5. Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans
6= 6. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
7= 7. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
8= 8. Charles V, Duke of Lorraine
9= 9. Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria
Queen Dowager of Poland-Lithuania
10= 10. Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
11= 11. Countess Palatine Elizabeth Charlotte of Simmern
12= 12. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
13= 13. Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg
14= 14. Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
15= 15. Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen
16= 16. Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine
17= 17. Princess Claude-Françoise of Lorraine
18= 18. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
19= 19. Eleanor Gonzaga of Mantua
20= 20. Louis XIII of France
21= 21. Anne of Austria
22= 22. Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine
23= 23. Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
24= 24. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (= 18)
25= 25. Maria Anna of Spain
26= 26. Philip William, Elector Palatine
27= 27. Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
28= 28. Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
29= 29. Duchess Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg
30= 30. Albert Ernest I, Prince of Oettingen-Oettingen
31= 31. Duchess Christine Frederica of Württemburg