Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (died 1789)

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1738)

Noblewoman and abbess (1738–1789)

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria was the second child of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. As a child, and for a time the eldest surviving child, she was heiress presumptive, but she suffered from ill health and physical disability,…