Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg

Maria Dorothea
Archduchess Joseph of Austria
Born	(1797-11-01)1 November 1797 Carlsruhe (Pokój), Silesia
Died	30 March 1855(1855-03-30) (aged 57) Budapest, Hungary
Spouse	Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary
Issue	Archduchess Franziska Marie Archduke Alexander Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska Archduke Joseph Karl Marie Henriette, Queen of the Belgians
Names Maria Dorothea Luise Wilhelmine Caroline
House	Württemberg
Father	Duke Louis of Württemberg
Mother	Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
Religion	Lutheranism

Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (Maria Dorothea Luise Wilhelmine Caroline; 1 November 1797 in Carlsruhe (now Pokój), Silesia – 30 March 1855 in Pest, Hungary) was the daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756–1817) and Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg (1780–1857).^{[citation needed]}

Family

Maria Dorothea was the eldest of five children born to Duke Louis of Württemberg and his second wife Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg. She was born in Carlsruhe (now Pokój), Silesia, now Poland.

Her brother Alexander was the grandfather of Mary of Teck, the future queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom.

She was tutored by her governess, the known memoirist Alexandrine des Écherolles, who described her pupils in her memoirs.^[1]

Marriage and children

She was the third wife of Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, to whom she was married on 24 August 1819. They had five children:

Name	Portrait	Lifespan	Notes
Archduchess Franziska Marie of Austria		1820- 1820	Died in infancy.
Archduke Alexander of Austria		1825- 1837	Died in childhood
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria		1831- 1903	Married firstly Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este and had issue; married secondly Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and had issue.
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria		1833- 1905	Married Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and had issue.
Archduchess Marie Henriette of Austria		1836- 1902	Married Leopold II of Belgium and had issue

Ancestry

References

Citations

Source

• Keith, Alexander (1867). "Origin of the Mission to the Jews at Pesth". The Sunday at home: a family magazine for Sabbath reading. Vol. 14. London: The Religious Tract Society. pp. 212-216, 232-237, 245-248, 261-263.

• Kovács, Ábrahám (2006). The History of the Free Church of Scotland's Mission to the Jews in Budapest and its impact on the Reformed Church of Hungary 1841-1914. Frankfurt am Main; New York; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Wien: Peter Lang Verlag.

• Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Royal Families of the World, Volume 1: Europe & Latin America (1977), London, UK: Burke's Peerage Ltd, page 22.

• personal (1866). "A Personal Narrative of a Ten Years' Mission in Hungary". The Sunday at home: a family magazine for Sabbath reading. London: The Religious Tract Society. pp. 737-742, 763-765, 772-775, 794-796, 810-812.

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