Princess Anna of Saxony (1836–1859)

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Princess Anna of Saxony (Full German name: Prinzessin Anna Maria Maximiliane Stephania Karoline Johanna Luisa Xaveria Nepomucena Aloysia Benedicta von Sachsen, Herzogin zu Sachsen) was a princess of Saxony by virtue of birth and Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany by virtue of marriage.

Anna
Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia Grand Princess of Tuscany
Photographed c.1858
Born	(1836-01-04)4 January 1836 Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony
Died	10 February 1859(1859-02-10) (aged 23) Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Burial	Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence
Spouse	Archduke Ferdinand, Grand Prince of Tuscany ​ ​ (m. 1856)​
Issue	Archduchess Maria Antonia
Names German: Anna Maria Maximiliane Stephania Karoline Johanna Luisa Xaveria Nepomucena Aloysia Benedicta
House	Wettin
Father	John of Saxony
Mother	Amalie Auguste of Bavaria

Early life and ancestry

Born into the main branch of an ancient German House of Wettin, as daughter of John of Saxony and his wife, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria.^[1] She was born 4 January 1836 in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, and died 10 February 1859 in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Anna Maria was her parents' seventh child and fourth eldest daughter, and a younger sister of Albert of Saxony and George of Saxony. Through her marriage to Archduke Ferdinand, Grand Prince of Tuscany in 1856,^[1] Anna Maria became a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and an Archduchess and Princess of Austria as well as a Princess of Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, and Tuscany.

She died shortly before her husband succeeded his father as Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Marriage and issue

Anna married the future Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, eldest son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany by his first wife, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, on 24 November 1856 in Dresden. She was his first wife.

Anna and Ferdinand had two children:

• Archduchess Maria Antonietta Leopolda Annunziata Anna Amalia Giuseppa Giovanna Immacolata Tecla (in German Maria Antonia Leopoldine Annunziata Anna Amalia Josepha Johanna Immaculata Thekla) (Florence, 10 January 1858 – Cannes, 13 April 1883)

• Stillborn daughter (born and died 1859)

Death

Anna Maria died on 10 February 1859, at the age of 23. Her body was buried in Santa Chiara, Naples, at that time Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Princess Anna of Saxony (1836–1859)

8. Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony 4. Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony 9. Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria 2. John of Saxony 10. Ferdinand, Duke of Parma 5. Princess Carolina of Parma 11. Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria 1. Princess Anna of Saxony 12. Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken 6. Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria 13. Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach 3. Princess Amalie Auguste of Bavaria 14. Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden 7. Princess Caroline of Baden 15. Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt