List of Empresses of Austria
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This is a list of the Austrian Empresses, consorts of the Emperors of Austria, an hereditary title proclaimed in 1804 by the Austrian Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Francis II before the end of the Holy Roman Empire. He became known as Francis I of Austria and the title, Emperor of Austria, has been continually held by him and his immediate successors until the title of Emperor of Austria and the associated Empire were both abolished at the end of the First World War in 1918, when German Austria became a republic and the other kingdoms and lands represented in the Imperial Council established their independence or adhesion to other states.
Empresses of Austria also held the titles: Queen of Hungary, Queen consort of Croatia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia and Queen consort of Bohemia.
The title lasted just a little over one century, 1804 to 1918.
[edit] House of Habsburg-Lorraine
| Picture | Name | House | Birth | Marriage | Became Consort | Ceased to be Consort | Death | Spouse |
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Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies | Bourbon-Two Sicilies | 6 June 1772 | 15 August 1790 | 11 August 1804 husband's ascension |
13 April 1807 | Francis I | |
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Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este | Habsburg-Este | 14 December 1787 | 6 January 1808 | 7 April 1816 | |||
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Caroline Augusta of Bavaria | Wittelsbach | 8 February 1792 | 29 October 1816 | 2 March 1835 husband's death |
9 February 1873 | ||
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Maria Anna of Sardinia | Savoy | 19 September 1803 | 12 February ? 1831 | 2 March 1835 husband's ascension |
2 December 1848 husband's abdication |
4 May 1884 | Ferdinand I |
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Elisabeth of Bavaria | Wittelsbach | 24 December 1837 | 24 April 1854 | 10 September 1898 | Franz Joseph I | ||
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Zita of Bourbon-Parma | Bourbon-Parma | 9 May 1892 | 13 June 1911 | 21 November 1916 husband's ascension |
11 November 1918 husband's deposition |
14 March 1989 | Karl I |
| Picture | Name | House | Birth | Marriage | Became Consort | Ceased to be Consort | Death | Spouse |
[edit] See also
- List of Holy Roman Empresses (813/814-1804)
