Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria () (5 September 1869,

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– 12 May 1945,

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) was a member of the

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-Tuscany and Archduchess of Austria, Princess of

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by birth. Through her marriage to Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Karoline was also a member of the Koháry branch of the

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. Karoline was the fourth child and second eldest daughter of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and his wife Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. She was Princess-Abbess of the Theresian Royal and Imperial Ladies Chapter of the Castle of Prague (1893-1894).

Marriage and issue

Karoline married Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second eldest son of Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, on 30 May 1894 in

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. Karoline and August had eight children together: # August Clemens (b. Pola, 27 October 1895 – d. Gerasdorf, 22 September 1908). # Klementine Maria (b. Pola, 23 March 1897 – d.

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, 7 January 1975), married on 17 November 1925 to Eduard von Heller. # Maria Karoline (b. Pola, 10 January 1899 – d. Hartheim bei Linz, 6 June 1941). She had been living in an institution for mentally disabled people in Schladming, but was taken away and executed by gassing along with her fellow patients as a result of the

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policy,

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, in the concentration camp at Schloss Hartheim. As a great-granddaughter of Emperor

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, she is commemorated in the

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memorial at

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. # Rainer (b. Pola, 4 May 1900 – d. after 7 January 1945 ). Married twice and had issue by first marriage. #

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(b. Walterskirchen, 18 August 1901 – d. 18 October 1985), married morganatically on 23 April 1944 to Sarah Aurelia Hálasz; their only son and their four grandchildren were barred from the succession of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Kohary. #

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(b. Walterskirchen, 23 August 1902 – d.

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, 24 January 1990), married on 6 October 1930 to Lamoral, Freiherr von Taxis di Bordogna e Valnigra (Their descendants bore the surname ''Tasso de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança''). # Leopoldine Blanka (b. Schloß Gerasdorf, 13 May 1905 – d. Hungary, 24 December 1978). # Ernst Franz (b. Gerasdorf, 25 February 1907 – d.

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, Styria, 9 June 1978), married morganatically on 4 September 1939 to Irmgard Röll. This marriage was childless.

Ancestry

References

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