Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este
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Empress Maria Ludovika of Austria

Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, also known as Maria Ludovika of Modena, (German: Maria Ludovika Beatrix von Modena) (Monza, 14 December 1787 – 7 April 1815 in Verona) was daughter of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este (1754-1806) and his wife, Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este (1750-1829). She was a member of the House of Austria-Este a branche of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

On 6 January 1808 she married her first cousin Francis I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia. They had no children. She was a great enemy of the French Emperor Napoleon I of France and therefore also in opposition to the Austrian foreign minister Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, who showed her private correspondence with her relatives to her husband, the Emperor Francis I. When Napoleon was finally defeated she traveled at the end of the year 1815 to her home country, North Italy, but died soon because of tuberculosis. She was only 28 years old.^[1]

She is buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna.

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