Archduchess Maria Alice of Austria

Archduchess Maria Alice
Baroness Waldbott of Bassenheim
Born (1893-01-15)15 January 1893
Pressburg, Austria-Hungary
Died 1 July 1962(1962-07-01) (aged 69)
Halbturn, Austria
Spouse Baron Friedrich Heinrich Waldbott of Bassenheim
Full name
German: Maria Alice von Österreich-Teschen
House Habsburg-Lorraine
Father Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen
Mother Princess Isabella of Croÿ

Archduchess Maria Alice of Austria-Teschen (15 January 1893 1 July 1962) was the youngest daughter of Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen and his wife, Princess Isabella of Croÿ.[1] She was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine (her grandfather, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, was a grandson of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II). Archduchess Alice married Baron Friedrich Heinrich Waldbott of Bassenheim.

Family

Archduchess Maria Alice was the eighth daughter of Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen and his wife Princess Isabella of Croÿ. Some of her siblings included Maria Anna, Princess of Bourbon-Parma and Maria Christina, Hereditary Princess of Salm-Salm. She was a first cousin of King Alphonso XIII of Spain.

Marriage

After World War I, at age 27, Archduchess Maria Alice married Baron Friedrich Heinrich Waldbott of Bassenheim (1889--1959) who was three-year-older than her. They were married in Lucerne, Switzerland on 8 May 1920. They settled in Hungary were they managed family estates. They had six children all born in Hungary:

Until the end of World War II in 1945, Mary Alice and her husband were landowners in Hungary, but they lost their properties after expropriation in 1945 and left the country avoiding capture by the Communist. They moved to Bavaria to a property of their son-in-law, Count Hans Heribert von Törring-Jettenbach who married their eldest daughter. Her second son, Paul Baron Waldbott von Bassenheim, inherited Schloss Halbturn at the death of Maria Alice's only brother, Archduke Albrecht, in 1955.

Notes

  1. Lundy, Darryl. "The Peerage: Maria Alice Erzherzogin von Österreich". Retrieved 10 November 2016.

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