She was an abbess of the Convent for Noble Ladies in Innsbruck from 1780 until 1806. She fled Innsbruck for Vienna and then Linz, when the province of Tyrol was taken over by Napoleon Bonaparte's ally, the Kingdom of Bavaria, in January, 1806. She spent her last years in Linz, where she died on September 22, 1808.
She was buried in the Jesuit Church of Linz. It is incorrectly stated on some online sites that she was buried in the Imperial Crypt (Kapuzinergruft) in Vienna.
She was an abbess of the Convent for Noble Ladies in Innsbruck from 1780 until 1806. She fled Innsbruck for Vienna and then Linz, when the province of Tyrol was taken over by Napoleon Bonaparte's ally, the Kingdom of Bavaria, in January, 1806. She spent her last years in Linz, where she died on September 22, 1808.
She was buried in the Jesuit Church of Linz. It is incorrectly stated on some online sites that she was buried in the Imperial Crypt (Kapuzinergruft) in Vienna.
Inscription
Erzherzogin
Maria Elisabeth von Österreich
Tochter der Kaiserin Maria Theresia
+ 22 Sept. 1808
R. I. P.
English translation:
Archduchess
Maria Elisabeth of Austria
Daughter of Empress Maria Theresa
+ 22 Sept. 1808
R. I.P.
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