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Maria Josepha of Austria

Maria Josepha of Austria (Maria Josepha Benedikta Antonia Theresia Xaveria Philippine, Polish: Maria Józefa; 8 December 1699 – 17 November 1757)[1] was the Queen of Poland and Electress of Saxony by marriage to Augustus III. From 1711 to 1717, she was heiress presumptive to the Habsburg monarchy. Her sister Maria Amalia became Electress of Bavaria.

Maria Josepha

5 October 1733 –17 November 1757

17 January 1734
Wawel Cathedral, Kraków

1 February 1733 –17 November 1757

(1699-12-08)8 December 1699
Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire

17 November 1757(1757-11-17) (aged 57)
Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire

Catholic Court Church, Dresden
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(m. 1719)​

Habsburg

Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor

Wilhelmine Amalie of Brunswick

A miscarriage of a daughter in the 4th month of pregnancy (23 June 1723).

A stillbirth of a daughter in the 6th month of pregnancy (16 August 1729).

A miscarriage in the 1st month of pregnancy (22 January 1732).

A miscarriage of a son in the 4th and a half-month of pregnancy (17 March 1734).

A miscarriage in the 1st month of pregnancy (4 December 1736).

A miscarriage in the 1st month of pregnancy (30 January 1737).

A miscarriage in the 1st month of pregnancy (23 May 1741).

A stillbirth of a son in the 5th and a half-month of pregnancy (11 January 1742).

A miscarriage of a son in the 4th and a half-month of pregnancy (20 March 1743).

A miscarriage in the 1st month of pregnancy (16 October 1745)

A miscarriage in the 1st month of pregnancy (23 February 1746)

A miscarriage in the 1st month of pregnancy (7 August 1749)

Maria Josepha and Frederick Augustus had 14 children recognized by historians:[7]


Maria Josepha also suffered 12 miscarriages and stillbirths:

Potter, George R. The New Cambridge Modern History.

Helen, Watanabe-O'Kelly (2004). "Religion and the Consort: Two Electresses of Saxony and Queens of Poland (1697–1757)". In Campbell Orr, Clarissa (ed.). Queenship in Europe 1660–1815: The Role of the Consort. Cambridge University Press. pp. 252–275.  0-521-81422-7.

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