archduchess
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The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke.
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In 1835, Paganini returned to Parma, this time under the employ of Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, Napoleon's second wife.
The Abbess is required to be an Austrian Archduchess.
From the 16th century onward, archduke and its female form, archduchess, came to be used by all the members of the House of Habsburg (e.
Ordinarily, a girl had to be twelve years old to have such an honour, but Anne may have been younger, as the Archduchess affectionately referred to her as "la petite Boulin sic ".
Maria Theresa then forced her daughter, Archduchess Maria Josepha, to pray with her in the Imperial Crypt next to the unsealed tomb of Empress Maria Josepha.
Maria Theresa's father compelled Francis Stephen to renounce his rights to Lorraine and told him: "No renunciation, no archduchess."