Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein (Maria Theresia Anna Felicitas; 11 May 1694 – 20 February 1772) was the heiress to the

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(now

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Countess of Soissons This is a list of those who bore the title Count of Soissons (french: Comte de Soissons) and ruled Soissons and its ''civitas'' or diocese as a county in the Middle Ages. The title continued in use into modern times, but without ties to the actual ...

by marriage, she was the last person to hold the title. She had one son who predeceased her in 1734. Her son was engaged to

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, duchess of Massa and heiress to the

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Biography

Maria Theresia's father was Prince Hans-Adam I of Liechtenstein – who had purchased the counties of

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and

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, which is now the modern state of

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(although the first Prince to visit Vaduz did so only in 1844). Her mother, Erdmuthe Maria Theresia of Dietrichstein was the great-granddaughter of Adam von

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(1527–1590), Hofmeister to the court of

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and buried in St Vitus Cathedral,

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. Maria Theresia's father died in 1712 – and both her brothers before that. In

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on 24 October 1713, Maria Theresia married Thomas Emmanuel, Count of Soissons and Governor of Antwerp (born on 8 December 1687), second son of Louis Thomas of Savoy-Carignano and his wife, Uranie de La Cropte de Beauvais (1655-1717). They had one son, Eugenio Giovanni. Through this marriage she also became a Princess of Savoy, having married into a

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of the reigning

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, Kings of Sicily (13 July 1713) and later of Sardinia. Her husband was a descendant of the princes of Carignano, which had been raised by

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, into a principality as an appanage for his third son, Thomas Francis. The house of Carignano developed two junior branches, those of

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and

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. In 1662, the town of

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in the Ardennes was raised by

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into a duchy in his favour, its name being changed at the same time to Carignan, to remember

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. The Prince Eugene of Savoy was the second son of the first Duke of Carignan and grandson of the first Prince of Carignano. Prince Eugene was Thomas Emmanuel's uncle. Eugene served under Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor – and for his leadership at the Battle of Vienna (against the Turks) in 1683 he became known as "The Atlas of the Austrian monarchy". In 1697, as Field Marshal and chief of Austrian armies, he defeated the forces of the Ottoman sultan, Mustafa II, at the decisive

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(now Senta in

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) in

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. After her husband died in Vienna on 28 December 1729, Maria Theresia made Škvorec Castle her seat. On 20 February 1772 Maria Theresia died in Vienna. She was a descendant of Georg Hartmann who had become Lutheran c. 1540, while her great-grandfather, Karl, a stattholder of Bohemia had found it wise to become a

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in 1599. Maria Theresa's son,

Eugene Jean Francois, Count of Soissons Prince Eugene Jean of Savoy (Eugene Jean François; 23 September 1714 – 23 November 1734) was the last Count of Soissons and by birth member of the House of Savoy. Life The only son of Emmanuel Thomas, Count of Soissons (a member of the House ...

and Duke of

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(born 23 September 1714; died at

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on 24 November 1734) had died at only 20 years old, thus her estate passed to

Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, born ''Franz de Paula Josef Johann Nepomuk Andreas'' (19 November 1726 – 18 August 1781), was the Prince of Liechtenstein from 1772 until his death. Biography Born in Milan, in what is now northern ...

– great-grandson of Prince Hartmann III of Liechtenstein (1613–1686). The title of

Count of Soissons This is a list of those who bore the title Count of Soissons (french: Comte de Soissons) and ruled Soissons and its ''civitas'' or diocese as a county in the Middle Ages. The title continued in use into modern times, but without ties to the actu ...

became extinct with the young son's death and was returned to the French crown.

Issue

* Eugène Jean François de Savoie (Eugene John Francis; 23 September 1714 – 24 November 1734); married

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, but died 13 days after without issue.

Ancestry

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