Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony

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Prince Maximilian of Saxony (Maximilian Maria Joseph Anton Johann Baptist Johann Evangelista Ignaz Augustin Xavier Aloys Johann Nepomuk Januar Hermenegild Agnellis Paschalis; 13 April 1759 – 3 January 1838) was a German prince and a member of the House of Wettin. He was the sixth child; however, the third child to survive childhood, and youngest surviving son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, and the German composer Duchess Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria.

Maximilian
Hereditary Prince of Saxony
Portrait by Anton Graff, c. 1792
Born(1759-04-13)13 April 1759
Dresden
Died3 January 1838(1838-01-03) (aged 78)
Dresden
Burial
Spouses
(m. 1792; died 1804)
Issue
Names
German: Maximilian Maria Joseph Anton Johann Baptist Johann Evangelista Ignaz Augustin Xavier Aloys Johann Nepomuk Januar Hermenegild Agnellis Paschalis
HouseWettin
FatherFrederick Christian, Elector of Saxony
MotherMaria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria

Life

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Since he was the youngest son of the family, Maximilian initially had little chance to inherit the Electorate of Saxony. However, by 1800, Maximilian was the third in line to the Electorate due to the children of his two eldest brothers, Frederick Augustus and Anthony, dying in infancy, except Maria Augusta, Frederick Augustus's only surviving offspring. After the creation of the Kingdom of Saxony in 1806, Maximilian became a Prince of Saxony.

After the death of Frederick Augustus in 1827, Anthony succeeded him as King. Maximilian became first in line to the Saxon throne as Hereditary Prince. However, three years later, on 1 September 1830, during the Autumn Disturbances, he renounced his rights of succession in favour of his eldest son, Frederick Augustus. He died eight years later, aged seventy-eight.

Marriages and issue

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Portrait of Prince Maximilian of Saxony and his wife Princess Maria Carolina of Parma, by Samuel Gránicher

In Parma on 22 April 1792, Maximilian and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Parma wed, Maria Carolina being the eldest child of Ferdinand, Duke of Parma and Maria Amalia of Austria, by proxy, and in person in Dresden on 9 May 1792.

Maximilian and Carolina bore eight children:

In Lucca on 15 October 1825 Maximilian married Maria Luisa Carlotta of Parma, daughter of King Louis of Etruria and niece of his first wife Carolina, by proxy, and the two wed in person in Dresden on 7 November 1825. She was forty-three years younger than her husband; they had no children.

Honours

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Ancestry

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References

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