Maria Anna of Neuburg (Marie Anna Karoline; 30 January 1693 – 12 September 1751) was a daughter of Anna Maria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany's first marriage to Philip William August of Neuburg. She married Duke

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on 5 February 1719 in Reichstadt,

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, a younger son of Elector Maximilian II of Bavaria. They had three children, only one of whom lived to mature adulthood. She was still an infant when her father and older sister, Leopoldina, died within a month of one another in 1693. Her mother, a wealthy widow, was married for a second time, against her wishes, on 2 July 1697 in

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to Prince Gian Gastone de' Medici, a younger son of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to whom she brought the prospect of inheriting substantial lands in

. Rather than dwelling in her father-in-law's capital,

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, the couple initially took up residence at his wife's Bohemian domain, the castle of Ploskovice near Reichstadt. In less than a year Gian Gastone left his wife for

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, thence resuming residence in Florence, and the couple never again cohabited. In 1723 Maria Anna's stepfather became Grand Duke Gian Gastone of Tuscany, succeeding his elder brother, and her mother became

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, although she never set foot in her husband's realm. Maria Anna's husband died in 1738. She herself died in 1751 aged 58.

Marriage and issue

Maria Anna married

, who became an Imperial general, on 5 February 1719 in Reichstadt,

. They had the following children: * Maximilian Francis Joseph (1720–1738), died unmarried and without issue. * Clement Francis de Paula (1722–1770), married in 1742 Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Pfalz-Sulzbach (1722–1790), without surviving issue. * Theresa Emmanuela (1723–1743), died unmarried and without issue.

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