Career
In the summer of 1691 Leopoldine became ill after a difficult trip from Neuburg to Düsseldorf. lieutenant was there that, thanks to the care and affection of her sister-in-law Anna Maria Luisa de" Medici, her condition improved again. In March 1693 she was formally betrothed to Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, whose first wife Maria Antonia of Austria had died in December 1692.
However, shortly after Leopoldine died in Düsseldorf aged 13, after seven days of fever.
Today, Leopoldine"s coffin was in the Mausoleun of Saint Andreas. In 2007 the coffin was opened for decontamination.
The mummified remains of the princess where buried in silk stockings, a fact that suggest that she died of tuberculosis.
