Maria Josepha Sophia de Iturbide

Infobox_pretender
English name = Maria Josepha de Iturbide


birth_date = 29 February 1872
birthplace = Mikosdpuszta, Hungary
death_date = November 1949
deathplace = Deva, Romania
regnal =
title =
throne = Mexico
pretend from = March 3 1925-November 1949
year = 1867
king = Maximilian I
relationship = Grandaughter¹
house = Iturbide
father = Salvador de Iturbide
mother = Gizella María Terezia
spouse =
children =
predecessor = Prince Agustín
successor = Prince Maximilian
footnotes = ¹ via adoption

Princess Maria Josepha Sophia de Iturbide (29 February 1872 - November 1949) was the head of the Imperial House of Mexico.

Biography

Maria Josepha was born in Mikosdpuszta castle, Hungary, as the daughter of Salvador de Iturbide y de Marzán, grandson of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide and an adopted son of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and Baroness Gizella Mikos.

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 a British earl in 1900.

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 was married secondly to Charles de Carriere (24 November 1875 - November 1949) on 14 April 1923 in Bistriţa.

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

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. 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-Iturbide.

Family

Maria Josepha had two daughters from her first marriage:
*Baroness Maria Anna (b. 1909) (m, with descendents)
*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.

External links

* [http://www.casaimperial.org/ Imperial House of Mexico]
* [http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Mexico/mexico.htm Royal Ark]