Archduchess Margarethe Klementine | |
Full Name: | de|Margarethe Klementine Maria von Habsburg-Lothringen hu|Habsburg–Lotaringiai Margit Klementina Mária |
Reign: | 15 July 1890 – 22 January 1952 |
Reign-Type: | Tenure |
Succession: | Princess consort of Thurn and Taxis |
Spouse: | Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis |
Issue: | Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis Prince Joseph Albert Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis Prince Ludwig Philipp Prince Max Emanuel Elisabeth Helene, Margravine of Meissen Prince Raphael Rainer Prince Philipp Ernst |
House: | Habsburg-Lorraine |
Father: | Archduke Joseph Karl, Palatine of Hungary |
Mother: | Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
Birth Date: | 6 July 1870 |
Birth Place: | Alcsút, Austria-Hungary |
Death Place: | Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany |
Burial Place: | Gruftkapelle, Saint Emmeram's Abbey, Regensburg |
Archduchess Margarethe Klementine Maria of Austria (in German: Margarethe Klementine Maria, Erzherzogin von Österreich; in Hungarian: Habsburg–Toscanai Margit Klementina Mária főhercegnő; 6 July 1870, Alcsút, Austria-Hungary– 2 May 1955, Regensburg) was a member of the Hungarian line of the House of Habsburg and an Archduchess of Austria by birth. Through her marriage to Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Margarethe Klementine was also a member of the House of Thurn and Taxis.
Margarethe Klementine was the third-eldest daughter and child of Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria and his wife Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Through her father Joseph Karl, Margarethe Klementine was a great-granddaughter of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. Through her mother, she was a great-granddaughter of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, King of the French.
Margarethe Klementine married Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis,[1] younger son of Maximilian Anton Lamoral, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis and his wife Duchess Helene in Bavaria, on 15 July 1890 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. Margarethe Klementine and Albert had eight children: