Maria Anna, Electress of Bavaria
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| Birthname | Maria Anna Sophie Sabina Angela Franziska Xaveria | ||||
| born on | 29 August 1728 at 02:00 (= 02:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Dresden, Germany, 51n03, 13e44 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m13e44 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   05°48'   19°32 Asc. 01°40'
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Biography
Polish nobility, a daughter of King Augustus III of Poland and his wife Maria Josepha of Austria, who became Electress of Bavaria.
In all, her parents had fifteen children; her most notable siblings were Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, Queen Maria Amalia of Spain and Maria Josepha, Dauphine of France, the mother of Kings Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, and Charles X of France.
She was married to the Bavarian Elector Maximilian III Joseph in 1747. Having no children of her own, Maria Anna negotiated with Frederick II of Prussia after her husband's death in 1777 to secure Bavaria's independence against Austria and to support the succession rights of the Wittelsbach branch Palatinate Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld in Bavaria when the new Elector Charles Theodore attempted to cede Lower Bavaria to Austria. A secret treaty with Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II had been concluded. In exchange for Lower Bavaria, Charles Theodore was to receive the Austrian Netherlands (close to his ancestral domains), the Palatinate (already his patrimony), Jülich and Berg.
These plans failed with the War of the Bavarian Succession in 1778, in which the Prussian king stifled the Austrian attempts to exchange the Austrian Netherlands for Bavaria. When Emperor Joseph II tried the scheme again in 1784, Frederick created the Fürstenbund.
After her husband died, Maria Anna Sophia spent the rest of her life in Fürstenried Palace and enjoyed the gratitude of the Bavarian people and the heirs of the Zweibrücken branch: Charles II, Duke of Zweibrücken, and his brother Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, who finally succeeded Charles Theodore in 1799. She died on 17 February 1797.
Relationships
- business associate/partner relationship with Friedrich II, King of Prussia (born 24 January 1712). Notes: Political negotiations
- friend relationship with Maximilian I, King of Bavaria (born 27 May 1756)
- child->parent relationship with August III, King of Poland (born 17 October 1696 (greg.))
- child->parent relationship with Maria Josepha, Queen of Poland (born 8 December 1699 (greg.))
- spouse relationship with Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (born 28 March 1727). Notes: 1747-1777
- sibling relationship with Clemens Wenceslaus, Prince of Saxony (born 28 September 1739)
- sibling relationship with Franz Xaver, Prince of Saxony (born 25 August 1730)
- sibling relationship with Friedrich Christian, Elector of Saxony (born 5 September 1722)
- sibling relationship with Maria Amalia, Queen Consort of Spain (born 24 November 1724)
- sibling relationship with Maria Christina, Princess of Saxony (born 12 February 1735)
- sibling relationship with Maria Elisabeth, Princess of Saxony (born 9 February 1736)
- sibling relationship with Maria Josepha, Dauphine of France (born 4 November 1731)
- sibling relationship with Maria Margaretha, Princess of Saxony (born 13 September 1727)
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes Caledonian Mercury [Edinburgh], 10 September 1728, p. 7363: "Dresden, Aug. 30. Yesterday at two in the Morning the Electoral Princess was brought to bed of a Princess."
Categories
- Notable : Famous : Royal family (House of Wittelsbach)