Archduchess Gisela of Austria
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| Gisela | ||
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| Archduchess of Austria-Hungary, Princess of Bavaria | ||
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| Titles | HI&RM The Archduchess of Austria-Hungary (1856-1932) HRH Princess Gisela of Bavaria (1873-1932) |
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| Born | July 12, 1856 | |
| Laxenburg, Austria | ||
| Died | July 27, 1932 | |
| Munich, Bavaria | ||
| Consort to | Prince Leopold of Bavaria | |
| Issue | Elisabeth, Auguste, Georg, Konrad | |
| Royal House | House of Habsburg-Lorraine | |
| Father | Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary | |
| Mother | Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary | |
Gisela Louise Marie, Princess Imperial and Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia, Princess of Bavaria (de: Gisela Louise Marie, Erzherzogin von Österreich) (July 12, 1856 – July 27, 1932) was born to Elisabeth of Bavaria and Franz Josef of Austria, their second child together.
Just like her older sister and her brother, she was raised by her paternal grandmother, Sophie, Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Bavaria. Gisela, like her mother, married young at the age of 15. She did so on April 20, 1873 in Vienna to Prince Leopold of Bavaria, a son of Prince Regent Luidpold of Bavaria. At the age of 36 Elizabeth became a grandmother for the first time, long before she wished to be. Gisela died in Munich, the Bavarian capital, on July 27, 1932 and is buried in the Michaelskirche there.
Among her notable relatives was her uncle, Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, who was her father's brother.
[edit] Family
Gisela and Prince Leopold of Bavaria had four children:
- Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria (1874-1957), who married Otto Ludwig Philipp Graf von Seefried auf Buttenheim
- Princess Auguste Maria of Bavaria (1875-1964), who married Joseph August, Archduke of Austria
- Prince Georg of Bavaria (1880-1943)
- Prince Konrad of Bavaria (1883-1969)
