Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria

Archduchess Karoline Marie
Born	(1869-09-05)5 September 1869 Altmünster, Austria-Hungary
Died	12 May 1945(1945-05-12) (aged 75) Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Spouse	Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Issue	Prince August Princess Klementine Princess Maria Karoline Prince Rainer Prince Philipp Princess Theresia Princess Leopoldine Prince Franz
Names German: Carolina Maria Immakulata Josepha Ferdinanda Therese Leopoldine Antoinette Franziska Isabella Luise Januaria Christine Benedikta Laurencia Justiniana
House	Habsburg-Tuscany
Father	Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria
Mother	Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria (German: Carolina Maria Immakulata Josepha Ferdinanda Therese Leopoldine Antoinette Franziska Isabella Luise Januaria Christine Benedikta Laurencia Justiniana, Erzherzogin von Österreich, Prinzessin von Toskana^{[citation needed]}) (5 September 1869, Altmünster, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary^{[citation needed]} – 12 May 1945, Budapest, Hungary^{[citation needed]}) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Tuscany and Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Tuscany by birth. Through her marriage to Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Karoline was also a member of the Koháry branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Karoline was the fourth child and second eldest daughter^{[citation needed]} of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and his wife Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.^{[citation needed]} She was Princess-Abbess of the Theresian Royal and Imperial Ladies Chapter of the Castle of Prague (1893-1894).^[1]

Marriage and issue

Karoline married Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second eldest son of Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, on 30 May 1894 in Vienna.^{[citation needed]} Karoline and August had eight children together:^{[citation needed]}

1. August Clemens (b. Pola, 27 October 1895 – d. Gerasdorf, 22 September 1908).
2. Klementine Maria (b. Pola, 23 March 1897 – d. Lausanne, 7 January 1975), married on 17 November 1925 to Eduard von Heller.
3. Maria Karoline (b. Pola, 10 January 1899 – d. Hartheim bei Linz, 6 June 1941). She had been living in an institution for mentally disabled people in Schladming, but was taken away and executed by gassing along with her fellow patients as a result of the Nazi eugenics policy, Action T4, in the concentration camp at Schloss Hartheim.^[2] As a great-granddaughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, she is commemorated in the Holocaust memorial at Rio de Janeiro.^[3]
4. Rainer (b. Pola, 4 May 1900 – d. after 7 January 1945 {believed to have been killed in action at Budapest}). Married twice and had issue by first marriage.
5. Philipp (b. Walterskirchen, 18 August 1901 – d. 18 October 1985), married morganatically on 23 April 1944 to Sarah Aurelia Hálasz; their only son and their four grandchildren were barred from the succession of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Kohary.
6. Theresia (b. Walterskirchen, 23 August 1902 – d. Villach, 24 January 1990), married on 6 October 1930 to Lamoral, Freiherr von Taxis di Bordogna e Valnigra (Their descendants bore the surname Tasso de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança).
7. Leopoldine Blanka (b. Schloß Gerasdorf, 13 May 1905 – d. Hungary, 24 December 1978).
8. Ernst Franz (b. Gerasdorf, 25 February 1907 – d. Gröbming, Styria, 9 June 1978), married morganatically on 4 September 1939 to Irmgard Röll. This marriage was childless.

Ancestry

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