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Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen (full name: ''Karl Viktor Amadeus Wolfgang Kasimir Adolf Bodo'') (29 July 1838 – 2 April 1899) was head of the mediatised German house of Isenburg and Büdingen. Biography Karl was born in Birstein, Hesse, ...

, issue = Prince Leopold Wolfgang
Princess Antonia
Princess Maria
Prince Franz Joseph
Prince Victor Salvator
Prince Alfonso
Princess Elizabeth
Princess Adelaide , house =

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House of Isenburg-Büdingen , father = Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany , mother = Princess Maria Antonia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies , birth_date = , birth_place =

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, Grand Duchy of Tuscany , death_date = , death_place = , burial_place = , religion = Roman Catholicism Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (full name: ''Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Filomena Apollonia Tommasa'') (31 October 1845 – 27 August 1917) was a Princess of Tuscany, and later Princess of Isenburg and Büdingen.

Biography

Maria Antonietta Grand Duchess of Tuscany and her daughter Maria Luisa

Maria Luisa was born in

, the eighth child and fifth daughter of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his second wife,

Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies it, Maria Antonietta Giuseppa Anna , image = Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies by Morelli 1840.jpg , caption = Maria Antonia in the early 1840s, painted by Carlo Morelli , reign = 7 June 1833 – 21 July 1859 , ...

. Her paternal grandparents were

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and Luisa of Naples and Sicily. Her maternal grandparents were King

Francis I of the Two Sicilies Francis I of the Two Sicilies ( it, Francesco Gennaro Giuseppe Saverio Giovanni Battista; 19 August 1777 – 8 November 1830) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1825 to 1830 and regent of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1806 to 1814. Biography Fran ...

and

María Isabella of Spain Maria Isabella of Spain (María Isabel de Borbón y Borbón-Parma; 6 July 1789 – 13 September 1848) was an infanta of Spain and queen consort of the Two Sicilies by marriage to Francis I of the Two Sicilies. Infanta of Spain She was the youn ...

, Infanta of Spain. She was baptized in Florence's Battistero di San Giovanni as ''Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Filomena Apollonia Tommasa'', in honor of her father's sister, Princess Maria Luisa (1798-1857), affectionately called "the little hunchback" by the people of Florence. Maria Luisa was born in a time of peace and prosperity for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and she was raised in an loving family environment. However, she was first confronted with the dangers of her position at a young age, due to the

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. In February 1849, the Grand Ducal family decided to go to Gaeta as a security measure. The Grand Duchess Maria Antonia traveled separately with her two younger children, Maria Luisa and Ludwig. The family remained in Gaeta for several months and was unable to return to Florence until 28 July 1849. Later, Maria Luisa and her family were forced to flee Florence on 27 April 1859, with the outbreak of a revolution inspired by the war by France and Sardinia-Piedmont against Austria as part of the

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. The family took refuge in Austria. At the end of the war, her father Leopold II abdicated on 21 July and his son Ferdinand succeeded him as Grand Duke. On 31 May 1865, at the age of twenty, Maria Luisa married

(1838-1899) in Brandeis, Bohemia. Her husband was a grandson of Karl, last sovereign Prince of Isenburg. The couple had nine children. Karl died at the age of sixty, and Maria Luisa died during

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, in 1917. They are the ancestors of

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, wife of

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, the head of the

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Issue

Maria Luisa and Karl had nine children: * Prince Leopold Wolfgang Ernst (1866–1933), succeeded his father as Prince of Isenburg. In 1902 he wed Princess Olga of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1869–1924), daughter of

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, and had issue. He married secondly in 1924 Countess Marie von Dürckheim-Montmartin (1880–1937), without issue. * Princess Maria Antonia Charlotte (1867–1943). * Princess Maria Michaele Johanna (1868–1919). * Prince Franz Joseph Maria (1869–1939), married Princess Friederike of

Solms-Braunfels Solms-Braunfels was a County and later Principality with Imperial immediacy in what is today the federal Land of Hesse in Germany. Solms-Braunfels was a partition of Solms, ruled by the House of Solms, and was raised to a Principality of th ...

, and had issue. They are the great-grandparents of

. * Prince Karl Joseph Maria (1871–1951), married morganatically Bertha Lewis. * Prince Viktor Salvator Karl (1872–1946), married Leontine Rohrer. * Prince Alfons Maria Leopold (1875–1951), married in 1900 Countess Pauline Marie of Beaufort-Spontin (1876–1955), and had issue. * Princess Marie Elisabeth Franziska (1877–1943), married Georg Beyer * Princess Adelheid Maria Sophie (1878–1936).

Ancestry

References

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