Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony

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Maximilian
Hereditary Prince of Saxony
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Born(1759-04-13)13 April 1759
Dresden
Died3 January 1838(1838-01-03) (aged 78)
Dresden
Burial
Katholische Hofkirche
Spouse
Princess Caroline of Parma
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(m. 1792; died 1804)​
Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma
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(m. 1825)​
Issue
Names
German: Maximilian Maria Joseph Anton Johann Baptist Johann Evangelista Ignaz Augustin Xavier Aloys Johann Nepomuk Januar Hermenegild Agnellis Paschalis
HouseWettin
FatherFrederick Christian, Elector of Saxony
MotherMaria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Prince Maximilian of Saxony (Maximilian Maria Joseph Anton Johann Baptist Johann Evangelista Ignaz Augustin Xavier Aloys Johann Nepomuk Januar Hermenegild Agnellis Paschalis; Dresden, 13 April 1759 – Dresden, 3 January 1838) was a German prince and a member of the House of Wettin. He was the sixth but third and youngest surviving son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, and the composer Duchess Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria.

Life[]

Since he was the youngest son of the family, Maximilian initially had little chance to inherit the Electorate of Saxony. However, by 1800, Maximilian was the third in line to the Electorate, because all the children of his two older brothers, Frederick Augustus and Anthony, died in infancy, except Maria Augusta, Frederick Augustus's only surviving offspring. After the creation of the Kingdom of Saxony in 1806, Maximilian became a Prince of Saxony.

After the death of Frederick Augustus in 1827, Anthony succeeded him as King. Maximilian became first in line to the Saxon throne as Hereditary Prince (German: Thronfolger). However, three years later, on 1 September 1830, during the Autumn Disturbances, he renounced his rights of succession in favour of his eldest son, Frederick Augustus. He died eight years later, aged seventy-eight.

Marriages and issue[]

In Parma on 22 April 1792 (by proxy) and again in Dresden on 9 May 1792 (in person), Maximilian married firstly, with the Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Parma (Maria Carolina Teresa Giuseppa), eldest child of Ferdinand, Duke of Parma and Archduchess Marie Amalie of Austria, a sister-in-law of his uncle Albert, Prince of Saxony and Duke of Teschen. Maxilimian and Carolina had seven children:

In Lucca on 15 October 1825 (by proxy) and again in Dresden on 7 November 1825 (in person), Maximilian married Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma (Maria Luisa Carlotta), daughter of King Louis of Etruria and niece of his first wife, Carolina. She was forty-three years younger than her husband. They had no children.

Honours[]

Ancestry[]

References[]

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