Archduchess Maria Alice of Austria
| Archduchess Maria Alice | |||||
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| Baroness Waldbott of Bassenheim | |||||
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| Born |
15 January 1893 Pressburg, Austria-Hungary | ||||
| Died |
1 July 1962 (aged 69) Halbturn, Austria | ||||
| Spouse | Baron Friedrich Heinrich Waldbott of Bassenheim | ||||
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| House | Habsburg-Lorraine | ||||
| Father | Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen | ||||
| Mother | Princess Isabella of Croÿ | ||||
Archduchess Maria Alice of Austria-Teschen (15 January 1893 – 1 July 1962) was the youngest daughter of Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen and his wife, Princess Isabella of Croÿ.[1] She was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine (her grandfather, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, was a grandson of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II). Archduchess Alice married Baron Friedrich Heinrich Waldbott of Bassenheim.
Family
Archduchess Maria Alice was the eighth daughter of Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen and his wife Princess Isabella of Croÿ. Some of her siblings included Maria Anna, Princess of Bourbon-Parma and Maria Christina, Hereditary Princess of Salm-Salm. She was a first cousin of King Alphonso XIII of Spain.
Marriage
After World War I, at age 27, Archduchess Maria Alice married Baron Friedrich Heinrich Waldbott of Bassenheim (1889--1959) who was three-year-older than her. They were married in Lucerne, Switzerland on 8 May 1920. They settled in Hungary were they managed family estates. They had six children all born in Hungary:
- Maria Immaculata (born July 27, 1921) ∞ 1947 Hans Heribert, Count of Törring-Jettenbach (1903-1977)
- Anton (born August 24, 1922) ∞ 1960 Thea Schonpflug (* 1938)
- Paul (born February 9, 1924 - 21. February 2008) ∞ 1958 Marie Therese, Countess Capellini von Wickenburg (* 1929)
- Isabella (born April 20, 1926- 2009) ∞ 1952 Pongracz, Count Somssich de Saard (* 1920)
- Stephanie (born November 19 1929) ∞ 1955 John Graf zu Koenigsegg-Aulendorf (* 1925)
- Josef (born January 26, 1933)
Until the end of World War II in 1945, Mary Alice and her husband were landowners in Hungary, but they lost their properties after expropriation in 1945 and left the country avoiding capture by the Communist. They moved to Bavaria to a property of their son-in-law, Count Hans Heribert von Törring-Jettenbach who married their eldest daughter. Her second son, Paul Baron Waldbott von Bassenheim, inherited Schloss Halbturn at the death of Maria Alice's only brother, Archduke Albrecht, in 1955.
Notes
- ↑ Lundy, Darryl. "The Peerage: Maria Alice Erzherzogin von Österreich". Retrieved 10 November 2016.
Bibliography
- Brigitte Hamann (ed.). The Habsburgs. Ueberreuter, Vienna, 1988. ISBN 3-8000-3247-3 , p.292.
- Miller, Ilana D and Beéche, Arturo E. Royal Gatherings Volume II. Eurohistory. 2015, ISBN 978-0985460389