Maria Anna of Neuburg was a daughter of Anna Maria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany"s first marriage to Philip William August of Neuburg.
Background
She married Duke Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria on 5 February 1719 in Reichstadt, Bohemia, a younger son of Elector Maximilian II of Bavaria. She was still an infant when her father and older sister, Leopoldina, died within a month of one another in 1693.
Career
Her mother, a wealthy widow, was married for a second time, against her wishes, on 2 July 1697 in Düsseldorf to Prince Gian Gastone de" Medici, a younger son of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to whom she brought the prospect of inheriting substantial lands in Bohemia. Rather than dwelling in her father-in-law"s capital, Florence, the couple initially took up residence at his wife"s Bohemian domain, the castle of Ploskovice near Reichstadt. Maria wed Duke Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria, who became an Imperial general, on 5 February 1719 in Reichstadt, Bohemia.
Maria Anna"s husband died in 1738.
She herself died in 1751 aged 58.