Princess Anna Maria of Saxony

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Princess Anna Maria of Saxony
Hereditary Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Born 4 January 1836
Dresden, Saxony
Died 10 February 1859 (aged 23)
Naples, Two Sicilies
Spouse Ferdinando, Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany
Issue Archduchess Maria Antonietta
Full name
Anna Maria Maximiliane Stephania Karoline Johanna Luisa Xaveria Nepomucena Aloysia Benedicta
House Wettin (by birth)
Habsburg-Lorraine (Tuscany branch by marriage)
Father John of Saxony
Mother Amalie Auguste of Bavaria
Burial March 17 1859
Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence
Religion Roman Catholic

Princess Anna Maria of Saxony (Anna Maria Maximiliane Stephania Karoline Johanna Luisa Xaveria Nepomucena Aloysia Benedicta; 4 January 1836 - 10 February 1859) was born a princess of the Kingdom of Saxony but married the Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany, himself the heir to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany then ruled by a cadet branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. She died in Naples aged twenty-three. On 17 March she was solemnly buried in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence, while her heart was placed in the Cappella dei Borbone in the Basilica di Santa Chiara in Naples.

Marriage[edit]

On 24 November 1856, she married Ferdinando, Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany (future Grand Duke)

Children[edit]

  1. Archduchess Maria Antonietta of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (10 January 1858 - 13 April 1883) never married.

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