Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria () (18 September 1862, in Alt-Bunzlau,

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– 10 May 1933, in Żywiec Castle,

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) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Tuscany and Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Tuscany by birth. Maria Theresia was the eldest child and eldest daughter of

Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria (Italian: ''Carlo Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Filippo Jacopo Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero''; German: ''Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Philipp Jakob Januarius Ludwig Gonzaga Rainer'' ...

and his wife, Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Marriage and issue

Maria Theresa married her mother's second cousin

Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria Archduke Charles Stephen Eugene Viktor Felix Maria of Austria (, ; 5 September 1860 – 7 April 1933) was a member of the House of Habsburg, a Grand Admiral in the Austro-Hungarian Navy and candidate for the Kingdom of Poland (1916-1918), Polish ...

, fourth child and third son of

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and his wife,

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, on 28 February 1886 in

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. Maria Theresia and Charles Stephen had six children together: * Archduchess Eleonora of Austria-Teschen (1886–1974) married morganatically Alfons von Kloss. * Archduchess Renata of Austria-Teschen (1888–1935) married Prince Hieronymus Radziwill. * Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria-Teschen (1888–1951) married morganatically

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. * Archduchess Mechthildis of Austria-Teschen (1891–1966) married Prince Olgierd Czartoryski. * Archduke Leo Karl of Austria-Teschen (1893–1939) married Maria-Klothilde von Thuillières Gräfin von Montjoye-Vaufrey et de la Roche, had issue, among others Count Leo Stefan of Habsburg. * Archduke Wilhelm of Austria-Teschen (1895–1948). Died unmarried.

Honours

* :
Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie (1918)
', Genealogy p. 7 ** Dame of the

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, 1st Class ** Grand Cross of the Order of Elizabeth * : Dame of the

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* : Grand Cordon of the

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* :

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of the

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Ancestry

Karl Stephan Austria 1860 1933 family1896

References

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