Maria Amalie Anna Josephine Anthony Justin Augustus Xavier Aloysius Johann Nepomucena Magdalena Walpurgis Katharina Saxon - , ) is a Saxon princess from the Albertine line of Wettin , in marriage to the Duchess of Palatinate-Zveybryukken . Maria Amalia, after the death of her husband, served as abbess of the Convent of St. Anne in Munich .
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Biography
Maria Amalia is the sixth child in the family of Elector of Saxony Friedrich Christian and his wife Maria Antonia of Bavaria , daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII . Maria Amalia is the sister of the kings of Saxony Friedrich Augustus I and Anton , and also belonged to the cousin of Louis XVI , the king of France, Charles IV of Spain, and the empress Marie-Louise .
On February 12, 1774, in Amsterdam, Maria Amalia married the Palatine Count Charles II Augustus of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler . The brother of Maria Amalia, Friedrich August, already in 1769, married the sister of her fiancé, Amalia Pfalz-Zweibrucken . After the wedding, the newlyweds settled in Neuburg Castle . In August 1775, Charles Augustus, after the death of his uncle, inherited the title of Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrucken. In a marriage with Karl Augustus, Maria Amalia gave birth to the son of Karl Augustus Friedrich (1776-1784), the crown prince of the Palatinate-Zweibrucken.
Maria Amalia was the master of the Bavarian Order of St. Elizabeth, and after the death of her husband in 1798, she went to the abbesses of the convent of St. Anne in Munich. Maria Amalia is buried in the court church in Neuburg.
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Literature
- Christian von Stramberg, Anton Joseph Weidenbach: Denkwürdiger und Nützlicher Rheinischer Antiquarius. Das Rheinufer von Coblenz bis zur Mündung der Nahe , Band 8, Koblenz 1859, S. 684. [1]
- Verzeichnis der Sämmtlichen Bücher, welche sich in der von der höchstseeligen Frau Herzogin von Pfalzzweibrücken ... zurückgelassen Bibliothek zu Neuburg befinden. , Neuburg ad Donau 1833. [2]