Princess of Wagram
Duchess Maria Elisabeth Amalie Franziska in Bavaria (5 May 1784 – 1 June 1849) was a Duchess in Bavaria as a member of the Palatine Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen line of the House of Wittelsbach and through her marriage to Louis-Alexandre Berthier became Princess of Wagram and Princess of Neuchâtel .
Life
Maria Elisabeth was born in Landshut , Electorate of Bavaria , the only daughter and second child of Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria and his wife Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld , sister of the future king Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria . She died in Paris , France , aged 65.
Marriage and issue
Maria Elisabeth married Louis-Alexandre Berthier (20 February 1753 – 1 June 1815), 1st Prince of Wagram , 1st Sovereign Prince of Neuchâtel and a Marshal of France , on 9 March 1808. The marriage took place at the explicit request of Emperor Napoleon I .[ 1]
Napoléon Alexandre , 2nd Prince, 1st Duke (11 September 1810 – 10 February 1887) married on 29 June 1831 Zénaïde Françoise Clary (25 November 1812 – 27 April 1884) and had issue, extinct in male line in 1918Caroline Joséphine (22 August 1812 – 1905) married on 9 October 1832 Alphonse Napoléon, Baron of Hautpoul (29 May 1806 – 25 April 1889)
Marie Anne Wilhelmine Alexandrine Elisabeth (19 February 1816 – 23 July 1878) married on 24 June 1834 Jules Lebrun, 3rd Duke of Plaisance (19 April 1811 – 15 January 1872) The Princess in 1832 by François-Gabriel Lépaulle
Ancestry
Ancestors of Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria 16. Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler 8. John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen 17. Countess Palatine Magdalene Catherine of Zweibrücken 4. John, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen 18. Georg Friedrich von Witzleben 9. Esther Maria von Witzleben 19. Maria Magdalena von Hanstein 2. Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria 20. John Philip II, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Salm-Dhaun 10. Charles, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Salm-Dhaun 21. Countess Anna Catherine of Nassau-Ottweiler 5. Wild- and Rhinegravine Sophie Charlotte of Salm-Dhaun 22. Frederick Louis, Count of Nassau-Ottweiler 11. Countess Louise of Nassau-Ottweiler 23. Countess Christiane of Ahlefeldt 1. Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria 24. Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld 12. Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken 25. Countess Katharina Agathe of Rappoltstein 6. Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken 26. Louis Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken 13. Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken 27. Countess Philippine Henriette of Hohenlohe-Langenburg 3. Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld 28. Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach 14. Joseph Charles, Hereditary Prince of Sulzbach 29. Landgravine Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg 7. Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach 30. Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine 15. Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg 31. Princess Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł
References
^ Oskar Criste: Napoleon und seine Marschälle, Book 4, C.W. Stern, 1906, P. 54
External links
Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria at Wikimedia Commons
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