Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska

Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska

Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska
Electress of Bavaria
Tenure 2 January 1695 - 26 February 1726
Spouse Maximilian II Emanuel
Issue Maria Anna
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Philip Maurice
Ferdinand Maria
Clemens August
William
John Adolf Alois
John Theodore
Maximilian Emanuel
House House of Sobieski
Father John III Sobieski
Mother Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien
Born 4 March 1676
Wilanów, Poland
Died 10 March 1730 (aged 54)
Venice, Italy

Theresa Kunegunda (Polish: Teresa Kunegunda Sobieska, German: Kurfürstin Therese Kunigunde) (4 March 1676 – 10 March 1730) was a Polish princess, an Electress of Bavaria and of the Electorate of the Palatinate. She also served as Regent of the Palatinate in 1704–05.

Biography

She was a daughter of the Polish King John III Sobieski and Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien. Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska married Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria, on 2 January 1695. She was mother of ten children by her husband, including Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII and Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, though only half of them survived till adulthood.

In 1704–05, following the evacuation of the Bavarian court to the Spanish Netherlands after the defeat at the Battle of Blenheim, she apparently was in charge of the government in the Electorate of the Palatinate as Regent Princess Palatine. However, when she left to see her mother, the army would not allow her to return. Therefore Theresa spent ten years in exile, only returning in 1715.

She rests in the Theatine Church in Munich.

Children

Ancestors

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Marek Sobieski
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jakub Sobieski
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jadwiga Snopkowska
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jan III Sobieski
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jan Daniłowicz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Zofia Teofillia Daniłowicz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Zofia Żółkiewska
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Antoine de La Grange d'Arquien
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Anne d'Ancienville
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Marie Casimire Louise
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Baptiste de La Châtre of Bruillebault
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Françoise de La Châtre
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gabrielle Lamy[1]
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

External links

Preceded by
Henriette Adelaide of Savoy
Electress of Bavaria
2 January 1695 - 26 February 1726
Succeeded by
Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria