Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska

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

• A stillborn child (1695)
• Maria Anna Karoline (1696–1750), nun
• Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1697–1745), King of Bohemia, and Elector of Bavaria
• Philip Maurice Maria (1698–1719), posthumously elected Bishop of Paderborn and Bishop of Münster as news of his death had not yet spread
• Ferdinand Maria Innocenz (1699–1738), Imperial Field Marshal
• Clemens August (1700–1761), Archbishop of Cologne, Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim, Bishop of Paderborn
• William (1701–1704), Prince of Bavaria
• Alois John Adolf (1702–1705), Prince of Bavaria
• John Theodore (1703–1763), Cardinal, Prince-Bishop of Regensburg, Bishop of Freising and Bishop of Liège
• Maximilian Emanuel Thomas (1704–1709), Prince of Bavaria

Ancestors

References

External links

• Teresa Kunegunda Sobieska at the Wilanów Palace Museum
• Teresa Kunegunda Sobieska in Venice at the Wilanów Palace Museum