Maria Josepha Sophia de Itúrbide

Maria Josepha de Itúrbide
Reign	3 March 1925 – November 1949
Predecessor	Prince Agustín
Successor	Prince Maximilian
Spouse	Johann Tunkl von Aschbrunn und Hohenstadt Charles de Carriere
Issue
Maria Anna Maria Gizela
Father	Prince Salvador of Iturbide
Mother	Gizella María Terezia
Born	29 February 1872(1872-02-29) Mikosdpuszta, Austria–Hungary
Died	November 1949 (aged 77) Deva, Romania

Maria Josepha Sophia de Itúrbide, Princess Imperial of Mexico (29 February 1872 – November 1949) was the head of the Imperial House of Mexico from 1925 to 1949.

Biography

Maria Josepha was born in Mikosdpuszta castle, Austria-Hungary, the daughter of Prince Salvador de Itúrbide y de Marzán and Baroness Gizella Mikos de Tarrodháza. Her father was the grandson of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide and an adopted son of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort, Charlotte of Belgium.

In 1881, the Itúrbide family left Hungary and moved to Venice. Maria Josepha spent her teenage years in this city. After her father's death in 1895, her mother married secondly Count Emil von Jenison-Walworth in 1900.^[1]

Maria Josepha was married to Baron Johann Tunkl von Aschbrunn und Hohenstadt (12 July 1872 – 10 May 1915) in Beszterce on 12 March 1908. Following his death in 1915, she married Charles de Carriere (24 November 1875 – November 1949) on 14 April 1923 in Bistriţa.

Following the death of her childless uncle Agustín de Itúrbide y Green in 1925, Maria Josepha inherited the Iturbide and Habsburg claims to the throne of Mexico but she played no political rule.^[2]

Despite her very advanced age, she and her second husband, Charles de Carriere, were interned in 1948 by the Romanian Communist government as class enemies of the people.^[2] They died under suspicious circumstances shortly after their internment in Deva in November 1949. In accordance with her will and her daughters' wishes, the claim to the throne passed to her only grandson Maximilian von Götzen-Itúrbide.

Family

Maria Josepha had two daughters from her first marriage:

• Baroness Maria Anna (b. 1909) (m, with descendants)
• Baroness Maria Gizela (1912–1981)

Her second marriage, to Charles de Carriere, was childless. Her older daughter, Baroness Maria Anna, is the mother of the current heir to the titles of Maria Josepha.

Ancestry

References

1. ^ Casa Imperial de Mexico.
2. ^ ^{a b} Women in Power 1900-1940

External links

• Imperial House of Mexico
• Royal Ark

Maria Josepha Sophia de Itúrbide House of Habsburg-Itúrbide Cadet branch of the House of Iturbide Born: 12 July 1872 Died: November 1949
Titles in pretence
Preceded by Prince Agustín	— TITULAR — Empress of Mexico March 3, 1925 – November 1949 Reason for succession failure: Empire abolished in 1867	Succeeded by Prince Maximilian

Persondata
Name	Iturbide, Maria Josepha Sophia De
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	29 February 1872
Place of birth	Mikosdpuszta, Austria–Hungary
Date of death	1949
Place of death	Deva, Romania