Maria Anna of Bavaria (18 December 1574 – 8 March 1616) was a
German
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princess, a member of the
House of Wittelsbach
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Munich
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, she was the fourth child and second (but eldest surviving) daughter of
William V, Duke of Bavaria
William V (29 September 1548 – 7 February 1626), called ''the Pious'', (German: ''Wilhelm V., der Fromme, Herzog von Bayern'') was the duke of Bavaria from 1579 to 1597.
Education and early life
William V was born in Landshut, the son of ...
and
Renata of Lorraine
Renata of Lorraine (, ; 20 April 1544 – 22 May 1602) was a noblewoman of the House of Lorraine who became a Duchess of Bavaria by her marriage to Duke William V.
Early life
Born in Nancy, Renata was the second child and eldest daughter of ...
House of Habsburg
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and
House of Wittelsbach
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. Without interfering in politics, Maria Anna lived in her husband's shadow. She gave him seven children, five of whom lived to adulthood.
Maria Anna died in
Graz
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aged 41, three years before the coronation of her husband as King of Bohemia and King of Hungary and his elevation to Holy Roman Emperor, so she was never a Holy Roman Empress. She was buried in the Mausoleum near the Cathedral in Graz.
Issue
* Archduchess Christine (25 May 1601 – 12/21 June 1601), died in infancy.
* Archduke Charles (born and died 25 May 1603).
* Archduke John-Charles (1 November 1605 – 28 December 1619), died unmarried.
* Ferdinand III (13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657), Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, who married:
**
Maria Anna of Spain
Maria Anna of Spain (18 August 160613 May 1646)Maria Leopoldine of Austria in 1648
** Eleanor Gonzaga in 1651
* Archduchess Maria Anna (13 January 1610 – 25 September 1665), who was married on 15 July 1635 to
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria
Maximilian I (17 April 157327 September 1651), occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War during which he obtained the title of a prince- ...
(her uncle).
* Archduchess Cecilia Renata (16 July 1611 – 24 March 1644), who was married on 9 August 1637 to Wladyslaw IV, King of
Poland
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(her cousin).
* Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (6 January 1614 – 20 November 1662), Bishop of Passau and Strasbourg (1625–37), Olmütz (1637–55), Breslau (1655–62), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1647–56), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1641–62). He died unmarried.
Ancestry
Notes
References
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Constantin von Wurzbach
Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (11 April 1818 – 17 August 1893) was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author.
Biography
He was born in Laibach, Carniola (present-day Ljubljana, Slovenia).He later went on to complete a cou ...
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich
''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich'' (English, ''Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire'') (abbreviated ''Wurzbach'' from the author's surname) is a 60-volume work, edited and published by Constantin von Wurzbach, cont ...