Burial Neudorf Role 1770–1809 House House of Lorraine | Name Archduchess Anna Died October 1, 1809 | |
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Father Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor Mother Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain Parents Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor Grandparents Maria Theresa, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor Cousins Louis XVII of France, Marie Therese of France, Princess Sophie Helene B, Louis Joseph - Dauphin, Archduchess Maria Theresa Similar People Leopold II - Holy Roman E, Maria Luisa of Spain, Maria Theresa of Austria, Archduke Rainer Joseph of, Archduke John of Austria | ||
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (Maria Anna Ferdinanda Josepha Charlotte Johanna; 21 April 1770 - 1 October 1809) was an Archduchess of Austria by birth, and an Abbess at the Theresian Convent in Prague.
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Maria Anna was a daughter of Emperor Leopold II (1747–1792) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain (1745–1792). Maria Anna was born in Florence, the capital of Tuscany, where her father reigned as Grand Duke from 1765–90. Maria Anna was her parents' fourth child among sixteen children. Her father was a son of Empress Maria Theresa and her mother a daughter of Charles III of Spain and Maria Amalia of Saxony. Though she had a happy childhood surrounded by her many siblings. As her siblings, Maria Anna was given a somewhat different upbringing than was usual given to royal children at the time: they were actually raised by their parents rather than a retinue of servants, were largely kept apart from any ceremonial court life and was taught to live simple, natural and modest. She became Abbess at the Theresian Convent in Prague in 1791. She traveled to Neudorf, Arad where she died on 1 October 1809, at the age of 39 years. In 1841, the emperor Ferdinand I of Austria honoring the Archduchess commissioned the funerary plaque built of Carrara marble.