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Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (full name: ''Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Filomena Apollonia Tommasa'') (31 October 1845 – 27 October 1917) was a Princess of Tuscany, and later Princess of Isenburg and Büdingen. ==Biography== Maria Luisawas born in Florence, the eighth daughter of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his second wife, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies. Her paternal grandparents were Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily. Her maternal grandparents were King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and María Isabella of Spain, Infanta of Spain. She was baptized in Florence's Battistero di San Giovanni as ''Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Filomena Apollonia Tommasa'', in honor of his father's sister, Princess Maria Luisa (1799-1857), affectionately called "the little hunchback" by the people of Florence. Maria Luisa was born in a time of peace and prosperity for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and she was raised in an loving family environment. However, his short life had its first confrontation with reality, as a result of the Revolutions of 1848. In February 1849, the Grand Ducal family decided go to Gaeta. The Grand Duchess Maria Antonia not travel with the rest of the family, only with her two younger children, Maria Luisa and Ludwig. The family remained in Gaeta for several months and was able to return to Florence until July 28, 1849. Later, she and his family were forced to flee Florence on April 27, 1859, with the outbreak of a revolution inspired by the outbreak of a war by France and Sardinia-Piedmont against Austria as part of the unification of Italy. The family took refuge in Austria. After the end of the war, his father Leopold II abdicated on July 21, and his brother Ferdinand succeeded him as Grand Duke. On May 31, 1865, at the age of twenty, she married Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen (1838-1899). Her husband was a grandson of Karl, last sovereign Prince of Isenburg. The couple had eight children. Karl died at the age of sixty, and Maria Luisa died during the Great War, in 1917. They are the ancestors of Sophie, Princess of Prussia, wife of Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, the head of the House of Hohenzollern. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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