Countess Maria Antonia von Waldstein (German: Maria Antonie Gräfin von Waldstein Herrin zu Wartenberg; 4 March 1771, Vienna – 17 January 1854, Vienna) was a Bohemian noblewoman who married into the Hungarian nobility.
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Biography
Born on 4 March 1771 in Vienna, into a family of ancient Bohemian nobility, Antonia was the fourth child of Count Georg Christian von Waldstein (1743–1791) and his wife, Countess Elisabeth von Ulfeldt (1747–1791). She was the great-granddaughter of the notorious Count Corfitz Ulfeldt. By birth, she was a member of the prominent House of Waldstein.
On 13 February 1792 in Vienna, Antonia married the Hungarian nobleman Ferenc József, Prince Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya, a member of the enormously affluent House of Koháry, with whom she had two children – Ferenc (1792–1798) and Mária Antónia (1797–1862), who married the German Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and bore four children. Mária Antónia was the mother of King Ferdinand II of Portugal and grandmother of King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria. On 15 November 1815, when Emperor Francis I of Austria granted her husband the hereditary title of Fürst von Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya, Maria Antonia became Princess Koháry by marriage.
Death
Princess Antonia died on 17 January 1854 in Vienna.