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Archduchess Karoline Marie
Born	(1869-09-05)5 September 1869 Altmünster,Austria-Hungary
Died	12 May 1945(1945-05-12) (aged 75) Budapest,Kingdom of Hungary
Spouse	Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ​ ​ (m. 1894; died 1922)​
Issue	Prince August Princess Klementine Princess Maria Karoline Prince Rainer Prince Philipp Princess Theresia Princess Leopoldine Prince Franz
Names German:Carolina Maria Immakulata Josepha Ferdinanda Therese Leopoldine Antoinette Franziska Isabella Luise Januaria Christine Benedikta Laurencia Justiniana
House	Habsburg-Tuscany
Father	Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria
Mother	Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria (German:Caroline Marie Immakulata Josepha Ferdinanda Therese Leopoldine Antoinette Franziska Isabella Luise Januaria Christine Benedikta Laurencia Justiniana, Erzherzogin von Österreich, Prinzessin von Toskana^{[citation needed]}) (5 September 1869,Altmünster,Upper Austria,Austria-Hungary^{[citation needed]} – 12 May 1945,Budapest,Hungary^{[citation needed]}) was a member of theHouse of Habsburg-Tuscany and Archduchess of Austria, Princess ofTuscany by birth. Through her marriage toPrince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Karoline was also a member of theKoháry branch of theHouse of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Karoline was the fourth child and second eldest daughter^{[citation needed]} ofArchduke Karl Salvator of Austria and his wifePrincess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.^{[citation needed]} She was Princess-Abbess of theTheresian Royal and Imperial Ladies Chapter of theCastle of Prague (1893-1894).^[1]

Karoline marriedPrince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second eldest son ofPrince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wifePrincess Leopoldina of Brazil, on 30 May 1894 inVienna.^{[citation needed]} Karoline and August had eight children together:^{[citation needed]}

1. August Clemens (b. Pola, 27 October 1895 – d. Gerasdorf, 22 September 1908).
2. Klementine Maria (b.Pola, 23 March 1897 – d.Lausanne, 7 January 1975), married on 17 November 1925 to Eduard von Heller.
3. Maria Karoline (b. Pola, 10 January 1899 – d. Hartheim bei Linz, 6 June 1941). She had been living in an institution for mentally disabled people in Schladming, but was taken away and executed by gassing along with her fellow patients as a result of theNazi eugenics policy,Action T4, in the concentration camp atSchloss Hartheim.^[2] As a great-granddaughter of EmperorPedro II of Brazil, she is commemorated in theHolocaust memorial atRio de Janeiro.^[3]
4. Rainer (b. Pola, 4 May 1900 – d. after 7 January 1945 {believed to have been killed in action at Budapest}). Married twice and had issue by first marriage.
5. Philipp (b. Walterskirchen, 18 August 1901 – d. 18 October 1985), married morganatically on 23 April 1944 to Sarah Aurelia Hálasz; their only son and their four grandchildren were barred from the succession of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Kohary.
6. Theresia (b. Walterskirchen, 23 August 1902 – d.Villach, 24 January 1990), married on 6 October 1930 to Lamoral, Freiherr von Taxis di Bordogna e Valnigra (Their descendants bore the surnameTasso de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança).
7. Leopoldine Blanka (b. Schloß Gerasdorf, 13 May 1905 – d. Hungary, 24 December 1978).
8. Ernst Franz (b. Gerasdorf, 25 February 1907 – d.Gröbming, Styria, 9 June 1978), married morganatically on 4 September 1939 to Irmgard Röll. This marriage was childless.

• 1869 births
• 1945 deaths
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• House of Habsburg-Lorraine
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• Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by marriage
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