Countess Maria Draskovich von Trakostjan | |||||
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Duchess of Bavaria, Jacobite consort | |||||
Born |
Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
8 March 1904||||
Died | 10 June 1969 Wildbad Kreuth, West Germany |
(aged 65)||||
Spouse | Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria | ||||
Issue | Princess Marie Gabrielle Princess Marie Charlotte Franz, Duke of Bavaria Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria |
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House | House of Draskovich von Trakostjan | ||||
Father | Count Dionys Maria Draskovich von Trakostjan | ||||
Mother | Princess Juliana Rose von Montenuovo |
Full name | |
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German: Maria Franziska Juliana Johanna |
Countess Maria Draskovich von Trakostjan (8 March 1904 – 10 June 1969) was the first wife of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, head of the House of Wittelsbach and claimant to the abolished throne of the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1955 to 1969, as well as the Jacobite pretender to the English throne. For Wittelsbach loyalists, she was the rightful Queen Consort of Bavaria from 1955 until her death, and for Jacobites, she was also the rightful Queen Consort of England, Scotland, Ireland and France during the same period.
Countess Maria Franziska Juliana Johanna (known as Marita) Draskovich von Trakostjan was born at Vienna, Austria-Hungary on 8 March 1904. She was the only daughter of the former Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Chamberlain Count Dionys Maria Draskovich von Trakostjan and his wife, Princess Juliana von Montenuovo. Her father was also a member of the Hungarian House of Magnates and of the Croatian Landtag. He had inherited the Croatian estates of Güssing in Eisenburg and of Velikibukovecz in Kreutz.
Her family, the Draskovich von Trakostjan (Drašković Trakošćanski in Croatian), belonged to the old Croatian nobility of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Through her mother she was a descendant of Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, by her second marriage to Adam Albert, Count von Neipperg; Marie Louise was the Empress consort of Napoleon I of France from 1810 to 1814 and reigning Duchess of Parma in her own right from 1814 to her death. Through her father, Maria was a descendant of the infamous Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory.