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Pretender
Maria Josepha de Iturbide
María Josefa de Iturbide y Mikos
Born 29 February 1872
Mikosdpuszta, Austria–Hungary
Died November 1949
Deva, Romania
Throne(s) claimed Mexico
Pretend from March 3, 1925 – November 1949
Monarchy abolished 1867
Last monarch Maximilian I
Connection with Granddaughter¹
Royal House Iturbide
Father Salvador de Iturbide
Mother Gizella María Terezia
Predecessor Prince Agustín
Successor Prince Maximilian
¹ via adoption

Maria Josepha Sophia de Iturbide, Princess Imperial of Mexico (29 February 1872 – November 1949) was a former head of the Imperial House of Mexico.

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Biography

Maria Josepha was born in Mikosdpuszta castle, Hungary, the daughter of Prince Salvador de Iturbide y de Marzán and Baroness Gizella Mikos de Tarrodháza. Her father was the grandson of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide and an adopted son of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort, Charlotte of Belgium.

In 1881, the Itúrbide family left Hungary and moved to Venice. Maria Josepha spent her teenage years in this city. After her father's death in 1895, her mother married secondly Emil Jenison- Walworth in 1900.[1]

Maria Josepha was married to Baron Johann Tunkl von Aschbrunn und Hohenstadt (12 July 1872 – 10 May 1915) in Beszterce on 12 March 1908. Following his death in 1915, she married Charles de Carriere (24 November 1875 – November 1949) on 14 April 1923 in Bistriţa.

Following the death of her childless uncle Agustín de Iturbide y Green in 1925, Maria Josepha inherited the Iturbide and Habsburg claims to the throne of Mexico but she played no political rule.[2]

Despite her very advanced age, she and her second husband, Charles de Carriere were interned in 1948 by the Romanian Communist government as class enemies of the people.[2] They died under suspicious circumstances shortly after their internment in Deva in November 1949. In accordance with her will and her daughters’ wishes, the claim to the throne passed to her only grandson Maximilian von Götzen-Iturbide.

Family

Maria Josepha had two daughters from her first marriage:

  • Baroness Maria Anna (b. 1909) (m, with descendants)
  • Baroness Maria Gizela (1912–1981)

Her second marriage, to Charles de Carriere, was childless. Her older daughter, Baroness Maria Anna, is the mother of the current heir to the titles of Maria Josepha.

Ancestry

References

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Maria Josepha Sophia de Iturbide
Born: 12 July 1872 Died: November 1949
Titles in pretence
Preceded by
Prince Agustín
— TITULAR —
Empress of Mexico
March 3, 1925 – November 1949
Reason for succession failure:
Empire abolished in 1867
Succeeded by
Prince Maximiliano
Pretenders to the Mexican
throne since 1823
First Empire

Emperor Agustín I (1823-1824)
Prince Imperial Agustín (1824-1864)

Second Empire

Emperor Maximilian I (1867)
Prince Agustín (1867-1925)
Princess Maria (1925-1949)
Prince Maximilian (1949-)

See also House of Habsburg-Itúrbide







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