![]() ![]() ![]() The wedding took place in the Imperial court at Vienna on 27 August 1787: however, the union was extremely unhappy and the groom abandoned Theresia almost immediately after. She was the fourth child and second (but eldest and only surviving) daughter of Karl Johann Baptist, 7th Prince of Dietrichstein and his wife, Countess Maria Christina of Thun und Hohenstein, a daughter of Jan Josef František Antonín, Count of Thun und Hohenstein (1711-1788) and Princess Christine of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1715-1749).Ī woman of extraordinary beauty (she was nicknamed la celeste Therese), Emperor Joseph II became madly in love with her in order to save her reputation and the position of the Dietrichstein family at court, when the Emperor was away in the Austro-Turkish War, was arranged her marriage with the Imperial Kammerherrn and General Count Philipp Joseph Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (1741-1827). Theresia of Dietrichstein ( Maria Theresia Johanna Nepomucena Josepha Juliana 11 August 1768 – 16 September 1822), was a German noblewoman a member of the House of Dietrichstein and by her two marriages member of the House of Kinsky and member of the House of Mervedlt. ![]() Portrait by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1793. ![]()
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