Background
Maria Josepha was born at Mikosdpuszta, Austria-Hungary, on 29 February 1872. Her father was a grandson of Emperor Agustín I of Mexico and an adopted son of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort, Charlotte of Belgium.
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Career
She is the eldest child of Prince Salvador de Iturbide and Baroness Gizella Maria Terezia Mikos de Tarrodháza. 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.
Maria Josepha was married to Baron Johann Tunkl von Aschbrunn und Hohenstadt (12 July 1872 – 10 May 1915) in Beszterce on 12 March 1908. They died under suspicious circumstances shortly after their internment in Deva in November 1949.
Baroness Maria Anna (1909-1962) (childless) "Titular Empress of Mexico" as Maria II (1949-1962)
Baroness Maria Gizela (1912–1981) "Titular Empress of Mexico" as Maria III (1962-1981)
Baroness Maria Gizela had a son Count Maximilian von Götzen-Iturbide who is the current "Titular Emperor of Mexico" as Maximiliano World War II Her second marriage, to Charles de Carriere, was childless. Her daughter, Baroness Maria Gizela, was the mother of the current heir to the titles of Maria Josepha.
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Nationality
Mexico