Archduchess Margaretha of Austria

Archduchess Margaretha
Born(1894-05-08)8 May 1894
Lemberg, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary[1]
Died21 June 1986(1986-06-21) (aged 92)
Viareggio, Italy
SpouseFrancesco Maria Taliani de Marchio
Names
German: Margarita Raineria Maria Antonia Blanka Leopoldine Beatrix Anna Josephina
HouseHabsburg-Tuscany
FatherArchduke Leopold Salvator of Austria
MotherInfanta Blanca of Spain

Archduchess Margaretha of Austria (German: Margaretha, Erzherzogin von Österreich-Toskana;(8 May 1894 – 21 June 1986) was a daughter of Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria and Infanta Blanca of Spain. She was member of the Tuscan branch of the Imperial House of Habsburg-Lorraine, an Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany by birth. After the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, she lived in exile, first in Barcelona and from the 1930s until the end of her life in Italy. In 1937, she married an Italian diplomat, Marchese Francesco Maria Taliani de Marchio. The couple, who had married in their forties, did not have children.[2]

  1. ^ Harding, Lost Waltz, p. 20
  2. ^ McIntosh, The Unknown Habsburgs, p. 53