
Marriage of Maria Leopoldine & Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III

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Maria Leopoldine was born on the 6th April 1632, and was by birth, Archduchess of Austria and member of the Tyrolese branch of the House of Habsburg.

Maria Leopoldine was the third (but second surviving) daughter and the fifth and youngest child of Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, and Claudia de' Medici.

On 2nd July 1648, Maria Leopoldine married the widowed Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III.
She became Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, Queen of the Germans, Queen of Hungary and Queen of Bohemia.

Soon after her wedding, Maria Leopoldine became pregnant, and was depicted as such in this 1649 painting, by the Italian painter and poet Lorenzo Lippi.

The Imperial couple's only child, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, was born on 7th August 1649.
The childbirth was extremely difficult and traumatic for Maria, sadly ending in the death of the 17-year-old Empress.
She was buried in tomb 21 in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Leopoldine_of_Austria.
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Portrait of a pregnant Maria by Lorenzo Lippi, 1649
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