Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria

Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria
Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Spouse Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Issue Prince August
Princess Klementine
Princess Maria Karoline
Prince Rainer
Prince Philipp
Princess Theresia
Princess Leopoldine
Prince Franz
Full name
German: Carolina Maria Immakulata Josepha Ferdinanda Therese Leopoldine Antoinette Franziska Isabella Luise Januaria Christine Benedikta Laurencia Justiniana
House House of Habsburg-Lorraine
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Father Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria
Mother Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Born 5 September 1869
Altmünster, Upper Austria, Austria–Hungary
Died 12 May 1945 (aged 75)
Budapest, Hungary

Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria (German: Carolina Maria Immakulata Josepha Ferdinanda Therese Leopoldine Antoinette Franziska Isabella Luise Januaria Christine Benedikta Laurencia Justiniana, Erzherzogin von Österreich, Prinzessin von Toskana[1][2]) (5 September 1869, Altmünster, Upper Austria, Austria–Hungary[1][2] – 12 May 1945, Budapest, Hungary[1][2]) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and Archduchess and Princess of Austria, Princess of Hungary, Bohemia, and Tuscany by birth. Through her marriage to Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Karoline was also a member of the Koháry branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Karoline was the fourth child and second eldest daughter[1][2] of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and his wife Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.[1][2]

Marriage and issue

Karoline married Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second eldest son of Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, on 30 May 1894 in Vienna.[1][2] Karoline and August had eight children together:[1][2]

  1. August Clemens (b. Pola, 27 October 1895 - d. Gerasdorf, 22 September 1908).
  2. Klementine (b. Pola, 23 March 1897 - d. Lausanne, 7 January 1975), married on 17 November 1925 to Eduard von Heller.
  3. Maria Karoline (b. Pola, 10 January 1899 - d. Hartheim bei Linz, 6 June 1941). She had been living in an institution for the mentally disabled in Schladming, but was taken away and executed by gassing along with her fellow patients as a result of the Nazi eugenics policy, Action T4, in the concentration camp at Schloss Hartheim.
  4. Rainer (b. Pola, 4 May 1900 - d. after 7 January 1945 (believed to have been killed in action at Budapest).
  5. Philipp (b. Walterskirchen, 18 August 1901 - 31 December 1994), married morganatically on 23 April 1944 to Sarah Aurelia Hálasz; their only son and their four grandchildren were barred from the succession of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Kohary.
  6. Theresia (b. Walterskirchen, 23 August 1902 - d. Villach, 24 January 1990), married on 6 October 1930 to Lamoral, Freiherr von Taxis di Bordogna e Valnigra (Their descendants bore the surname Tasso de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança).
  7. Leopoldine (b. Schloß Gerasdorf, 13 May 1905 - d. Hungary, 24 December 1978).
  8. Ernst (b. Gerasdorf, 25 February 1907 - d. Gröbming, Styria, 9 June 1978), married morganatically on 4 September 1939 to Irmgard Röll. This marriage was childless.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

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Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Darryl Lundy (10 May 2003). "Karoline Marie Immaculee Erzherzogin von Österreich". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Paul Theroff. "TUSCANY". Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site. Retrieved 2008-11-28.