Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (governor)
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Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (13 December 1680 in Linz – 26 August 1741 in Mariemont, Morlanwelz), was the governor of the Austrian Netherlands between 1725 and 1741.
Life[]
Maria Elisabeth was a daughter of Emperor Leopold I and Eleonore-Magdalena of Pfalz-Neuburg. She was well educated and fluent in Latin, German, French and Italian. She never married.
Governor[]
In 1725, she was appointed Prince Eugene of Savoy's successor as the regent governor of the Austrian Netherlands by her brother, Charles VI.
Maria Elisabeth was described as a forceful administrator and a popular regent. Her independent politics, however, were not always appreciated in Vienna. She suspended the Ostend Company in 1727 and closed it in 1731.
She had enough financial means at her disposal to uphold an elaborate court which stimulated culture and music. Among others, she patronized Jean-Joseph Fiocco, her maestro di cappella who dedicated several oratorios to her between 1726 and 1738.
The architect designed the palace Mariemont for her, where she spent her summers.
Death[]
She died unexpectedly at Mariemont, upon which she was displayed at a public Lit-de-parade in Brussels 29 August. When she died at the age of 61, she was first buried in Brussels, but moved to Vienna in 1749, where she lies now in the Imperial Crypte next to her brother Charles.
Ancestors[]
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References[]
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- Cécile Douxchamps-Lefevre : Marie-Élisabeth. In: Nouvelle Biographie nationale de Belgique, Bd. 2 (1990), S. 267–270.
External links[]
Media related to Category:Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1680-1741) at Wikimedia Commons
- 1680 births
- 1741 deaths
- 18th-century House of Habsburg
- Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands
- Austrian princesses
- People from Linz
- Nobility of the Austrian Netherlands
- Burials at the Imperial Crypt
- 18th-century women rulers
- Politicians of the Austrian Netherlands