Princess Auguste of Bavaria

Princess Auguste of Bavaria (; 28 April 1875 – 25 June 1964) was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and the wife of Archduke Joseph August of Austria.

Birth and family Prince Leopold of Bavaria and Archduchess Gisela of Austria with their children, 1885. Princess Auguste was born in Munich, Bavaria, the second child of Prince Leopold of Bavaria and his wife, Archduchess Gisela of Austria. Her paternal grandparents were Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, the de facto ruler of Bavaria from 1886 to 1912, and Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria. Her maternal grandparents were Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. She had one older sister, Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria and two younger brothers, Prince Georg of Bavaria and Prince Konrad of Bavaria.

Marriage Archdurchess Auguste and her husband Archduke Joseph August. She married Joseph August, Archduke of Austria, on 15 November 1893 in Munich. Archduke Joseph August was a prominent member of the imperial family of Austria-Hungary who belonged to the socalled Hungarian or Palatinal branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. The couple had six children.

World War I Joseph August and Auguste during a visit to a Red Cross field hospital in Northern Italy in 1916. On the outbreak of war with Italy in 1915, Augusta Maria Louise, though in her 40s and the mother of a son serving as an officer, went to the front with the cavalry regiment of which her husband, the Archduke Josef August, a corps commander, was honorary colonel, and served a common soldier, wearing a saber and riding astride, until the end of the war.

Later life In the chaotic years after World War I and the collapse of Austria-Hungary, her husband briefly served as the head of state of Hungary in August 1919. She died in 1964 in Regensburg in Bavaria, West Germany.

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Issue Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria, born on 28 March 1895; died on Archduchess Gisela Auguste Anna Maria, born on 5 July 1897; died on Archduchess Sophie Klementine Elisabeth Klothilde Maria, born on 11 March 1899; died on Archduke Ladislaus Luitpold, born on 3 January 1901; died on Archduke Matthias Joseph Albrecht Anton Ignatius, born on 26 June 1904; died on Archduchess Magdalena Maria Raineria, born on 6 September 1909; died on