Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877–1906)
| Mathilde of Bavaria | |||||
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| Princess Ludwig of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | |||||
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| Born | 17 August 1877 , Lindau, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire | ||||
| Died | 6 August 1906 (aged 28) Davos, Switzerland | ||||
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| Spouse | Prince Ludwig of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||||
| Issue | Prince Antonius Maria Ludwig Princess Maria Immaculata Leopoldine | ||||
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| House | Wittelsbach | ||||
| Father | Ludwig III of Bavaria | ||||
| Mother | Maria Theresa of Austria-Este | ||||
Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (Mathilde Marie Theresia Henriette Christine Luitpolda; 17 August 1877 – 6 August 1906) was the sixth child of Ludwig III of Bavaria and his wife, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este.[2] After her early death, Life-Dreams: The Poems of a Blighted Life, a collection of poems she wrote, was published in 1910.
Family and early life[]
Princess Mathilde was born on 17 August 1877 as the sixth child and third daughter of Ludwig III of Bavaria at the family's summer residence of in Lindau.[2] Though she was the favorite daughter of her father, she and her mother were not close. Some speculate that she only married as an escape from her home.
Later years[]
Marriage and issue[]
Various candidates were rumored to be engaged to Princess Mathilde at different times. These included, in 1896, the Prince of Naples,[3] but he married Princess Elena of Montenegro later that year. Others included Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne,[4] and Jaime, Duke of Madrid.
On 1 May 1900 in Munich, Mathilde married Prince Ludwig of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a son of Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Princess Leopoldina of Brazil.[2] He was a captain in the Austrian army, and had been raised in Brazil as a grandson of Emperor Pedro II.[4] The prince was also from the Catholic branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. They had two children: Prince Antonius of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (17 June 1901 – 1 September 1970); and Princess Maria Immaculata of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (10 September 1904 – 18 March 1940).
Death[]
Mathilde died of tuberculosis at the age of 28, on 6 August 1906, in Davos, Switzerland.[2] Her remains are buried in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in the little village of Rieden near her family home at Schloss Leutstetten.[citation needed] Her husband remarried a year later to Countess Anna of Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg.
In 1910 Mathilde's family anonymously published some of her poems as Traum und Leben: Gedichte einer früh Vollendeten. In 1913 John Heard translated and published them in English as Life-Dreams: The Poems of a Blighted Life.[5][6]
Ancestry[]
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- ^ "WITTELSBACH, KINGS OF BAVARIA". Royalty (travel) Guide. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Lundy, Darryl. "The Peerage: Mathilde Marie Prinzessin von Bayern". Retrieved 8 December 2010.
- ^ "Current News", , 2 January 1896
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Buller and his Strange Visions", The Washington Post, 5 November 1899
- ^ R.R. Bowker Company (1913). The publishers weekly, Volume 84, Part 1. New York: Office of the Publishers' Weekly. p. 664.
- ^ Mathilde, Princess of Bavaria (1910). Life-dreams: the poems of a blighted life.
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- 1877 births
- 1906 deaths
- Bavarian princesses
- Burials at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul (Rieden, Swabia)
- German women poets
- Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry
- Tuberculosis deaths in Switzerland
- 19th-century poets
- 19th-century German writers
- 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- 19th-century women writers