Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (Maria Dorothea Luise Wilhelmine Caroline; 1 November 1797 in
Carlsruhe (now Pokój),
Silesia
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– 30 March 1855 in
Pest,
Hungary
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) was the daughter of
Duke Louis of Württemberg
Duke Ludwig Friedrich Alexander of Württemberg (; 30 August 1756, in Treptow an der Rega20 September 1817, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was the second son of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1732–1797) and Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Br ...
(1756–1817) and
Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
Princess Henriëtte of Nassau-Weilburg, then of Nassau (22 April 1780, in Kirchheimbolanden – 2 January 1857, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was a German duchess. She was a daughter of Prince Charles Christian and Carolina of Orange-Nassau, daughte ...
(1780–1857).
Family
Maria Dorothea was the eldest of five children born to
Duke Louis of Württemberg
Duke Ludwig Friedrich Alexander of Württemberg (; 30 August 1756, in Treptow an der Rega20 September 1817, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was the second son of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1732–1797) and Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Br ...
and his second wife
Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
Princess Henriëtte of Nassau-Weilburg, then of Nassau (22 April 1780, in Kirchheimbolanden – 2 January 1857, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was a German duchess. She was a daughter of Prince Charles Christian and Carolina of Orange-Nassau, daughte ...
. She was born in
Carlsruhe (now Pokój),
Silesia
Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...
, now Poland.
Her brother
Alexander
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Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
was the grandfather of
Mary of Teck
Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 186724 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King-Empe ...
, the future queen consort of
George V of the United Kingdom
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
Born during the reign of his grandmother Qu ...
.
She was tutored by her governess, the known memoirist
Alexandrine des Écherolles, who described her pupils in her memoirs.
[Side Lights on the Reign of Terror; being the memoirs of Mademoiselle des Écherolles (London, 1900)]
Marriage and children
She was the third wife 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 ...
, to whom she was married on 24 August 1819. They had five children:
Ancestry
References
Citations
Source
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* Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. ''Burke's Royal Families of the World, Volume 1: Europe & Latin America'' (1977), London, UK: Burke's Peerage Ltd, page 22.
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House of Habsburg-Lorraine
1797 births
1855 deaths
Duchesses of Württemberg
Austrian princesses
People from Namysłów County
Burials at Palatinal Crypt
People from the Province of Silesia
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