Archduchess Margaret of Austria (born 1925)
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| Archduchess Margaret | |
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| Born | 17 August 1925 Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Died | 3 May 1979 (aged 53) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Spouse | Alexander Czech, Prince of Monteleone
(m. 1943) |
| Issue | Sibylla Erba-Odescalchi, Principesa di Monteleone |
| House | Habsburg-Lorraine |
| Father | Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria |
| Mother | Anna of Saxony |
Archduchess Margaret of Austria (17 August 1925 – 3 May 1979), was an Austrian archduchess of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine as the daughter of Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria and Anna of Saxony. She married an Italian nobleman, Alexander Czech, Prince of Monteleone, and had issue.
Biography[edit]
Family[edit]
Archduchess Margaret was born on 17 August 1925 in Budapest, Hungary.[1] She was the eldest child of Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria and his wife, Princess Anna of Saxony. Through her mother, Margaret was a granddaughter of Frederick Augustus III, the last King of Saxony. Her father was from a branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine who reigned as Palatines of Hungary on behalf of the king.
She was also often referenced by her nickname, "Margit."
Marriage[edit]
On her eighteenth birthday, Margaret married Alexander Czech, son of General Jószef Cech (1855-1938) and Princess Amalia Erba Odescalchi dei Principi di Monteleone (1889-1969). He had been made Prince of Monteleone by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy shortly before his marriage. The couple had a daughter named Sibylla, who later succeeded her father as Principesa di Monteleone.
The couple lived in Budapest, where Alexander was a landowner and worked as lawyer. In this capacity, he aided Jews during World War II, for which he would receive the Righteous Among the Nations award in 1999.[2] However in 1945, the threat posed by the Soviet Red Army forced the couple to flee to Sweden with the assistance of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf.[2] Archduchess Margaret died there on 3 May 1979 at the age of 53.[1]
Ancestry[edit]
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References[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- Gullman, Sven H. ""Righteous among the people" - Jewish award to a Catholic prince in Stockholm". Arv och Minne. Archived from the original on 2014-07-25. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- "Margarethe Erzherzogin von Österreich". The Peerage. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- Énache, Nicolas (1999). La descendance de Marie-Thérèse de Habsburg (Éditions L'intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux ed.). Paris. ISBN 978-2-908003-04-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). - Parisot, Jacques; Parisot, Nelly (1984). La descendance de François-Joseph Ier empereur d'Autriche (Éditions Christian ed.). Besançon. ISBN 978-2-86496-014-0.
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