Prince Maximilian of Saxony (Maximilian Maria Joseph Anton Johann Baptist Johann Evangelista Ignaz Augustin Xavier Aloys Johann Nepomuk Januar Hermenegild Agnellis Paschalis; 13 April 1759 – 3 January 1838) was a German prince and a member of the House of Wettin. He was the sixth child; however, the third child to survive childhood, and youngest surviving son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, and the German composer Duchess Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria.
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Portrait by Anton Graff, c. 1792
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| Born | (1759-04-13)13 April 1759 Dresden | ||||
| Died | 3 January 1838(1838-01-03) (aged 78) Dresden | ||||
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(m. 1792; died 1804)
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| House | Wettin | ||||
| Father | Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony | ||||
| Mother | Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria | ||||
Since he was the youngest son of the family, Maximilian initially had little chance to inherit the Electorate of Saxony. However, by 1800, Maximilian was the third in line to the Electorate due to the children of his two eldest brothers, Frederick Augustus and Anthony, dying in infancy, except Maria Augusta, Frederick Augustus's only surviving offspring. After the creation of the Kingdom of Saxony in 1806, Maximilian became a Prince of Saxony.
After the death of Frederick Augustus in 1827, Anthony succeeded him as King. Maximilian became first in line to the Saxon throne as Hereditary Prince. However, three years later, on 1 September 1830, during the Autumn Disturbances, he renounced his rights of succession in favour of his eldest son, Frederick Augustus. He died eight years later, aged seventy-eight.
InParma on 22 April 1792, Maximilian and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Parma wed, Maria Carolina being the eldest child of Ferdinand, Duke of Parma and Maria Amalia of Austria, by proxy, and in person in Dresden on 9 May 1792.
Maximilian and Carolina bore eight children:
InLucca on 15 October 1825 Maximilian married Maria Luisa Carlotta of Parma, daughter of King Louis of Etruria and niece of his first wife Carolina, by proxy, and the two wed in person in Dresden on 7 November 1825. She was forty-three years younger than her husband; they had no children.
Poland–Lithuania: Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, 1762[1]
Spain:
French Empire: Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour, 1807/08[4]
Kingdom of Saxony:[5]
Kingdom of Bavaria: Knight of the Order of St. Hubert, 1808[6]
Kingdom of Portugal: Grand Cross of the Sash of the Two Orders (Christ and St. James), 1825[7]
Two Sicilies: Grand Cross of the Order of St. Ferdinand and Merit[8]
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