Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria

Archduchess Maria Josepha Gabriella Johana Antonia Ana of Austria (19 March 1751 Vienna, Austria) - (15 October 1767 Vienna, Austria). She was the daughter of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708-1765) and Maria Theresa of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (1717-1780). She died of smallpox at the age of 16 and was buried in the Imperial Crypt, Vienna, Austria.

Maria Josepha was terrified of dying of smallpox after the death of her older sister Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela in 1762, and sister-in-law Maria Josepha of Bavaria, second wife of her elder brother Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, in May 1767. Her fears were realized when she died of smallpox on the very day she was to have left Vienna for her journey across the alps to marry the King of Naples, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. After her death, her sister Marie Caroline of Austria was given as a bride to the King of Naples in her place.

Ancestry
Maria Josepha von Österreich (1751–1767) Maria Giuseppina d'Austria Habsburg-Lotharingiai Mária Jozefa főhercegnő Maria Józefa Habsburg