Family tree Van Burssens - Trienpont » Maria Josepha van Oostenrijk (1699-1757)

Personal data Maria Josepha van Oostenrijk 

  • She was born on December 8, 1699 in Wenen (A).
  • Property: keurvorstin van Saksen en koningin van Polen..
  • She died on November 17, 1757 in Dresden, she was 57 years old.
  • This information was last updated on November 3, 2010.

Household of Maria Josepha van Oostenrijk

She is married to August III de Sakser of de Dikke van Polen.

They got married


Child(ren):

  2. Jozef van Polen  1721-1728
  5. Maria van Saksen  1727-1734


Notes about Maria Josepha van Oostenrijk

Ze trad op 20 augustus 1719 in Wenen in het huwelijk met keurvorst Frederik August II van Saksen, de latere koning August III van Polen. Door dit huwelijk was er een verbintenis gekomen tussen het Huis Wettin en Habsburg. Maria Josepha’s schoonvader, August II van Polen, aasde al langere tijd op een huwelijk tussen een aartshertogin en zijn zoon. Op die manier hoopte hij een betere positie te krijgen in een eventuele successieoorlog rondom de Oostenrijkse troon. Dit werd echter tenietgedaan door de geboorte van Maria Theresia van Oostenrijk. Maria Josepha werd op een venetiaanse gondel aan de Elbe binnengehaald. De feestelijkheden duurden tot in september voort. Er werden meerdere opera's opgevoerd; er waren bals en jachtpartijen.

Op cultureel gebied bloeide Saksen in deze tijd op. Ook Maria Josepha droeg een steentje bij: zij was met haar echtgenoot verantwoordelijk voor de bouw van de Hofkerk in Dresden in 1751. Haar man was in 1712 tot het katholicisme bekeerd, maar Maria Josepha was haar hele leven al katholiek sinds haar opvoeding door haar katholieke grootmoeder Eleonore van Palts-Neuberg (dochter van Filips Willem van de Palts).

Maria Josepha stierf in 1757 op 57-jarige leeftijd.

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Historical events

Birthday December 8, 1699

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1699: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 26 » For the first time, the Ottoman Empire permanently cedes territory to the Christian powers.
    • February 16 » First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
    • March 30 » Guru Gobind Singh establishes the Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
    • April 14 » Khalsa: The Sikh religion was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.

Day of death November 17, 1757

  • The temperature on November 17, 1757 was about 6.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen helder. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1757: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
    • January 16 » Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
    • March 14 » Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMSMonarch for breach of the Articles of War.
    • May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
    • June 23 » Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.
    • November 5 » Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.


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