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Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1718–1744)

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Archduchess Maria Anna
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria; Governor of the Austrian Netherlands
Spouse Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine
Father Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Born September 18, 1718
Vienna, Austria
Died December 16, 1744
Brussels, Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium)
Burial Imperial Crypt, Vienna, Austria

Maria Anna Eleanor Wilhelmina Josepha of Austria (Vienna, September 18, 1718 - Brussels, December 16, 1744) was Archduchess of Austria and Duchess of Lorraine, the younger sister of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.

She and Maria Theresa were the only surviving children of Emperor Charles VI of Austria and Elizabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. The two sisters were raised in the Kaiserhof in Vienna.

She fell in love with Charles Alexander of Lorraine , the younger brother of Maria Theresa's husband, Francis Stephen. There was a lot of resistance against a marriage, not in the least the wish of her father for a politically more important son-in-law.

It was only after their father's death that Elizabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel gave the approval for the marriage, which was concluded in St Augustine's Church (Augustinerkirche) in Vienna on January 7, 1744.

The couple were appointed governors of the Austrian Netherlands in succession of their aunt Maria Elisabeth of Austria, who had died in 1741.

Charles Alexander went to war against Prussia, while Maria Anna, pregnant with their first child, remained in Brussels. Mother and daughter died on December 16, 1744.

Both were buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna. Charles Alexander never married again.

Preceded by
Count Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau		 Governor of the Austrian Netherlands
1744-1744		 Succeeded by
Charles Alexander of Lorraine
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