List of Empresses of Austria

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This is a list of the Austrian Empresses, consorts of the Emperors of Austria, an hereditary title proclaimed in 1804 by the Austrian Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Francis II before the end of the Holy Roman Empire. He became known as Francis I of Austria and the title, Emperor of Austria, has been continually held by him and his immediate successors until the title of Emperor of Austria and the associated Empire were both abolished at the end of the First World War in 1918, when German Austria became a republic and the other kingdoms and lands represented in the Imperial Council established their independence or adhesion to other states.

Empresses of Austria also held the titles: Queen of Hungary, Queen consort of Croatia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia and Queen consort of Bohemia.

The title lasted just a little over one century, 1804 to 1918.

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Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse
	Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies	Bourbon-Two Sicilies	6 June 1772	15 August 1790	11 August 1804 husband's ascension	13 April 1807		Francis I
	Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este	Habsburg-Este	14 December 1787	6 January 1808		7 April 1816
	Caroline Augusta of Bavaria	Wittelsbach	8 February 1792	29 October 1816		2 March 1835 husband's death	9 February 1873
	Maria Anna of Sardinia	Savoy	19 September 1803	12 February ? 1831	2 March 1835 husband's ascension	2 December 1848 husband's abdication	4 May 1884	Ferdinand I
	Elisabeth of Bavaria	Wittelsbach	24 December 1837	24 April 1854		10 September 1898		Franz Joseph I
	Zita of Bourbon-Parma	Bourbon-Parma	9 May 1892	13 June 1911	21 November 1916 husband's ascension	11 November 1918 husband's deposition	14 March 1989	Karl I
Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse