Princess Auguste of Bavaria | |
Archduchess Auguste of Austria | |
Full Name: | Auguste Maria Luise |
Spouse: | Archduke Joseph August of Austria |
Issue: | Archduke Joseph Francis Archduchess Gisela Archduchess Sophie Archduke Laszlo Archduke Matyas Archduchess Magdalena |
House: | Wittelsbach |
Father: | Prince Leopold of Bavaria |
Mother: | Archduchess Gisela of Austria |
Birth Date: | 28 April 1875 |
Birth Place: | München, Bavaria, German Empire |
Death Place: | Regensburg, Bavaria, West Germany |
Princess Auguste of Bavaria (German: Auguste Maria Luise Prinzessin von Bayern; 28 April 1875 – 25 June 1964) was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and the spouse of Archduke Joseph August of Austria.
Auguste was born in Munich, Bavaria, the second child of Prince Leopold of Bavaria and his wife, Archduchess Gisela of Austria. She had one older sister, Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria and two younger brothers, Prince Georg of Bavaria and Prince Konrad of Bavaria.
She married Joseph August, Archduke of Austria, on 15 November 1893 in Munich. The couple had six children;
On the outbreak of war with Italy in 1915, Augusta Maria Louise, though in her 40s and the mother of a son serving as an officer, went to the front with the cavalry regiment of which her husband, the Archduke Josef August, a corps commander, was honorary colonel, and served a common soldier, wearing a saber and riding astride, until the end of the war.[1]