Princess Hildegard of Bavaria


Princess Hildegard of Bavaria was the seventh child and fourth daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

Life

Marriage

On 1 May 1844 in Munich, Hildegard married Archduke Albert of Austria, eldest son of Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen and Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg. She thereafter became known as Archduchess Hildegard. She and her husband had 3 children:

Issue

During her stay in Munich for the funeral of her brother King Maximilian II in March 1864, Archduchess Hildegard became ill with a lung inflammation and pleurisy, and died.

Ancestry