Background
Maria Anna was a daughter of Emperor Leopold II (1747–1792) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain (1745–1792). Maria Anna was born in Florence, the capital of Tuscany, where her father reigned as Grand Duke from 1765-1790.
Maria Anna was a daughter of Emperor Leopold II (1747–1792) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain (1745–1792). Maria Anna was born in Florence, the capital of Tuscany, where her father reigned as Grand Duke from 1765-1790.
Her father was a son of Empress Maria Theresa and her mother a daughter of Charles III of Spain and Maria Amalia of Saxony. She became Abbess at the Theresian Convent in Prague in 1791. She traveled to Neudorf, Arad where she died on 1 October 1809, at the age of 39 years.
In 1841, the emperor Ferdinand I of Austria honoring the Archduchess commissioned the funerary plaque built of Carrara marble.
22 April 1770 - 20 February 1790 Her Royal Highness Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Princess of Tuscany
20 February 1790-1791 October 1809 Her Royal Highness Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia
Constantin Wurzbach, Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich, Vienna, 1861, Volume VII, pp. 27–28.
