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Princess Anna of Saxony (Full German name: Prinzessin Anna Maria Maximiliane Stephania Karoline Johanna Luisa Xaveria Nepomucena Aloysia Benedicta von Sachsen, Herzogin zu Sachsen[1]) was a princess of Saxony by virtue of birth and Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany by virtue of marriage.
Born into the main branch of an ancient German House of Wettin, as daughter of John of Saxony and his wife, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria.[2] She was born 4 January 1836 in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, and died 10 February 1859 in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.[3]
Anna Maria was her parents' seventh child and fourth eldest daughter, and a younger sister of Albert of Saxony and George of Saxony.[4] Through her marriage to Archduke Ferdinand, Grand Prince of Tuscany in 1856,[2] Anna Maria became a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and an Archduchess and Princess of Austria as well as a Princess of Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, and Tuscany.
She died shortly before her husband succeeded his father as Grand Duke of Tuscany.[5]
Anna married the future Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, eldest son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany by his first wife, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, on 24 November 1856 in Dresden.[6] She was his first wife.
Anna and Ferdinand had two children:
Anna Maria died on 10 February 1859, at the age of 23. Her body was buried in Santa Chiara, Naples, at that time Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.[7]
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