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4 unusual facts about Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein


Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein

In 1662 the town of Yvois in the Ardennes was raised by Louis XIV of France into a duchy in his favour, its name being changed at the same time to Carignano.

In Vienna on 24 October 1713 Maria Theresia married Thomas Emmanuel, Count of Soissons and Governor of Antwerp (born on 8 December 1687), second son of Louis Thomas of Savoy-Carignano and his wife Uranie de La Cropte de Beauvais.

The house of Carignano developed two junior branches, those of Soissons and Villafranca.

Her husband was a descendant of the Princes of Carignano, which been raised by Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy into a principality as an appanage for his third son, Thomas Francis.



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