Caroline Augusta of Bavaria

Caroline Augusta of Bavaria
Crown Princess of Württemberg
Portrait by Franz Schrotzberg, 1864
Empress consort of Austria
Queen consort of Hungary
Tenure29 October 1816 – 2 March 1835
Coronation25 September 1825, St. Martin's Cathedral
Born(1792-02-08)8 February 1792
Mannheim, Electoral Palatinate
Died9 February 1873(1873-02-09) (aged 81)
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Spouses
(m. 1808; div. 1814)
(m. 1816; died 1835)
HouseWittelsbach
FatherMaximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
MotherAugusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt
The imperial family (by Leopold Fertbauer, 1826)

Princess Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (German: Karoline Auguste; 8 February 1792 – 9 February 1873) was Empress of Austria by marriage to Francis I of Austria.[1] She was the penultimate child and third daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. She firstly married to Crown Prince William of Württemberg in 1808, but they divorced in 1814.

  1. ^ Elisabeth Katharina Rath: Kaiserin Caroline Augustes Wirken in Salzburg. Ein Beitrag zur Sozialgeschichte Salzburgs in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. phil.Diss, Salzburg 1988.

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