Marie-Christine of Habsbourg-Lorraine

Maria Christina Johanna Josepha Antonia of Habsbourg-Lorraine , more known under the name of Marie-Christine (° Vienna, May 13rd 1742 - † June 24th 1798).

Marie-Christine is the fifth child of the emperor François I {{er}} of Lorraine and of the empress of Austria Marie-Therese.

Marie-Christine was the favorite child of her mother. The preference of which it made watch in its connection was worth him the jealousy of his/her brothers and sisters, particularly of the emperor Joseph II, whose first wife, Isabelle of Parma, also seemed it to prefer the company of Marie-Christine to that of her husband. The rumor ran that, lesbians, they were amantes, but that proven forever.

Marie-Christine was a very intelligent woman, who knew how to handle her parents, particularly her mother. The unexpected death of his/her father, the emperor François Ier, and the depression which seized the Marie-Therese empress following this widowhood, enabled him to convince his/her mother to authorize it to marry by love rather than for reason of State. Thus, she married in 1766 Albrecht von Sachsen, Herzog von Teschen (1738 - 1822). The two husbands were jointly named governors Austrian Netherlands.

Marie-Christine had only one child, the Maria-Theresia princess of Saxony, which died the May 17th 1767, the shortly after her birth. Marie-Christine not being able more to have other children, the couple adopted the archduke Charles of Austria.

Died of the Typhus in 1798, it is buried in the imperial crypt of the church of the Capuchins with Vienna, at the sides of her husband and his daughter.

See too

List of the governors of the Spanish and Austrian Netherlands

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