Countess Maria Antonia von Waldstein explained

Countess Maria Antonia von Waldstein
Native Name Lang:de
Birth Name:Maria Antonie Gräfin von Waldstein Herrin zu Wartenberg
Birth Date:4 March 1771
Birth Place:Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire
Death Place:Vienna, Austrian Empire, Habsburg monarchy
Countess von Waldstein
Princess Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya
Spouse:Ferenc József, Prince Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya
Children:Ferenc (1792–1795)
Mária Antónia (1797–1862)
Parents:Count Georg Christian von Waldstein
Countess Elisabeth Ulfeldt

Countess Maria Antonie Gräfin von Waldstein Herrin zu Wartenberg (4 March 1771, Vienna – 17 January 1854, Vienna) was a Bohemian noblewoman.[1] By birth, she was a member of the prominent House of Waldstein, maternal grandmother of King Ferdinand II of Portugal and great-grandmother of King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria.

Biography

Born into an old House of Waldstein, Antonia was the fourth child of Count Georg Christian von Waldstein (1743–1791) and wife, Countess Elisabeth Ulfeldt (1747–1791), and is the great-granddaughter of the notorious Count Corfitz Ulfeldt. In Vienna on 13 February 1792, Antonia married the Hungarian nobleman Ferenc József, Prince Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya, a member of the enormously affluent House of Koháry, to whom she bore two children; Ferenc (1792–1795) and Mária Antónia (1797–1862) who married the German Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and bore four children.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Wurzbach, Constantin. Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich - Zweiundfünfzigster Teil - Vrcevic - Wallner. Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire - Fifty-Second Part - Vrcevic - Wallner. Universitätsbibliothek Graz. Graz. 1885. Stammtafel der Grafen Waldstein. Family tree of the Counts of Waldstein. 213. 52. de. 2022-08-25.