Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875–1964)

Princess Auguste of Bavaria was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and the wife of Archduke Joseph August of Austria.

Birth and family

file:Ferraris-Princess Auguste of Bavaria.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Portrait painting by Arthur von Ferraris, 1910
Auguste was born in Munich, Bavaria, the second child of Prince Leopold of Bavaria and his wife, Archduchess Gisela 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 and issue

She married Joseph August, Archduke of Austria, on 15 November 1893 in Munich. The couple had six children;

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

World War I

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.