Archduchess Hermine of Austria (Hermine Amalie Marie; 14 September 1817 – 13 February 1842) was a member of the

House of Habsburg-Lorraine The House of Habsburg-Lorraine (german: Haus Habsburg-Lothringen) originated from the marriage in 1736 of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis III, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, and Maria Theresa, Maria Theresa of Austria, later successively List ...

Biography

Hermine was the daughter of

Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary Archduke Joseph Anton Johann of Austria (, , 9 March 1776 – 13 January 1847) was the 103rd and penultimate palatine of Hungary who served for more than 50 years from 1796 to 1847, after he had been appointed governor in 1795. The latter half ...

and

Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym , house = Ascania , father =Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym , mother = Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg , birth_date = , birth_place =Hoym , death_date = , death_place =Budapest , religion = Calvin ...

. Her mother died shortly after giving birth to her and her twin brother,

Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary Archduke (feminine: Archduchess; German: ''Erzherzog'', feminine form: ''Erzherzogin'') was the title borne from 1358 by the Habsburg rulers of the Archduchy of Austria, and later by all senior members of that dynasty. It denotes a rank withi ...

. She was brought up by her stepmother,

Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (Maria Dorothea Luise Wilhelmine Caroline; 1 November 1797 in Carlsruhe (now Pokój), Silesia – 30 March 1855 in Pest, Hungary) was the daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756–1817) and Princess H ...

. She spent much of her childhood in

Buda Buda (; german: Ofen, sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Budim, Будим, Czech and sk, Budín, tr, Budin) was the historic capital of the Kingdom of Hungary and since 1873 has been the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest, on the ...

and at the family estate in

Alcsútdoboz Alcsútdoboz is a village in Fejér county, Hungary. Alcsútdoboz was created in 1950 by the merger of the municipalities of Alcsút (German: ''Altschutt'') and Vértesdoboz. History Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary had his country estate A ...

and received an excellent education. Contemporaries described Archduchess Hermine as comely, kind and modest. However, she was a slim young woman, frail body, and prone to diseases. Hermine was Princess-Abbess of the Theresian Royal and Imperial Ladies Chapter of the Castle of Prague (1835-1842), and she died 13 February 1842 in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

, Austria.

Ancestry

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hermine of Austria, Archduchess House of Habsburg-Lorraine Hungarian people of Austrian descent People from Buda 1817 births 1842 deaths Burials at Palatinal Crypt