Category:Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este
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English: Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d’Este (Modena, April 7 1750 – Vienna, November 14 1829) was heiress of Modena and Reggio and Duchess of Massa and Carrara from 1790 until 1797 and from 1816 until her death in 1829. Empress Maria Theresa of Austria arranged a marriage between Maria and her fourth son Archduke Ferdinand to expand Austrian influence in Italy.
Ferdinand and Maria Beatrice Ricciarda had nine children:
- Josef Franz (1772-1772)
- en:Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1773-1832) (1773-1832), married Victor Emanuel I, King of Sardinia
- Josepha (1775-1777)
- Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este (1776-1848), married Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria
- Francis IV, Duke of Modena (1779-1846), next Duke of Modena, married Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy
- Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este (1781-1850), Commander-in-Chief of the Austrian army during the Napoleonic Wars
- en:Archduke Maximilian Joseph of Austria-Este (1782-1863), Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
- Maria Antonia (1784-1786)
- Archduke Karl Ambrosius of Austria-Este (2 Nov 1785-2 Sept 1809). Archbishop of Esztergom, Primate of Hungary
- Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este (1787-1816), married her first cousin Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia]]
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