Archduchess Assunta of Austria, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian archduchess
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Archduchess Assunta of Austria
- Archduchess Assunta of Austria German: Assunta, Erzherzogin von Österreich-Toskana;(10 August 1902 – 24 January 1993) was the youngest daughter of Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria and Infanta Blanca of Spain.
- She was a member of the Tuscan branch of the Imperial House of Habsburg, an Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany by birth.
- Born and raised in the twilight years of the Austrian Empire, Archduchess Assunta lived in exile in Barcelona, Spain after the fall of the Habsburg monarchy.
- She entered religious life in a convent in Barcelona, but was forced to leave it in 1936 due to disturbances during the Spanish Civil War.
- In 1939, she married Joseph Hopfinger, a Polish doctor.
- In 1942 the couple emigrated to the United States.
- Archduchess Assunta and her husband had two daughters, but they divorced in 1950.
- She moved to San Antonio, Texas where she had a variety of jobs living in anonymity until her death.
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