Family legend - Marie Antionette had a relation who ended up connected to Durrants in Suffolk!?

Question

Hello people. There has been a story in my family that Marie Antionette had a sister who was somehow related to some of my Durrant ancestors who came from risby/Ixworth in Suffolk is there a possibility that there could some royal/aristocratic link there.As I do know someone in the french royal family lived in Bury st Edmunds Suffolk could there be some link witha courtier.

Help!?

Answer 1

She was the fifteenth child, and eleventh (and last) daughter, of Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa. Marie Antoinette's sisters were married off to the heads of European royal houses — Maria Amalia to the Prince of Parma; and her other sister, Maria Carolina, to King Ferdinand of Naples, and Maria Christina along with her husband Prince Albert of Saxony, Duke of Teschen were made the Regents of the Austrian Netherlands. There are no records of any sisters moving to England.

Marie Antoinette's only surviving daughter moved to Vienna so the chances of being in England is very slim.

I'm going to keep looking at this one.

Have you tried Dubrett's?

All of her sisters had the first name Marie. I've given you a list of brothers & sisters including Marie Antionette.

Archduchess Maria Elisabeth (1737-1740). Maria Theresa's heiress presumptive between 1737 and 1740.

Archduchess Maria Anna (1738-1789). Maria Theresa's heiress presumptive between 1740 and 1741.

Archduchess Maria Caroline (1740-1741).

Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II (1741-1790), married Infanta Isabel of Spain (1741-1763), then Princess Marie Josephe of Bavaria (1739-1767); no surviving issue. Holy Roman Emperor from 1765; Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia and from 1780.

Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (1742-1798), married Prince Albert of Saxony, Duke of Teschen (1738-1822); no surviving issue.

Archduchess Maria Elisabeth (1743-1808).

Archduke Charles Joseph (1745-1761).

Archduchess Maria Amalia (1746-1804), married Ferdinand, Duke of Parma (1751-1802); had issue.

Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II (1747-1792), married Infanta Maria Louisa of Spain (1745-1792); had issue. Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 (abdicated 1790); Holy Roman Emperor from 1790; Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia from 1790.

Archduchess Maria Caroline (stillborn 1748).

Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela (1750-1762).

Archduchess Maria Josepha (1751-1767).

Queen Maria Caroline of Naples and Sicily (1752-1814), married King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily (1751-1825); had issue

Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Duke of Breisgau (1754–1806), married Maria Beatrice d'Este, heiress of Breisgau and of Modena; had issue (Austria-Este). Duke of Breisgau from 1803.

Queen Marie Antoinette of France and Navarre, born Maria Antonia (1755-1793); married Louis XVI of France (1754-1793).

Archduke Maximilian Francis (1756-1801), Archbishop-Elector of Cologne: 1784.

They all came from the house of Habsburgs which is the biggest royal family name in Europe. I've not been able to find any connection with Bury St Edmunds or Risby/Ixworth.

Answer 2

All of my own ancestors were called Durrant and they were from Warminster in Wiltshire and surrounding areas. My grandmothers name was Lucy Ann Durrant.

Answer 3

Really?, that didn't know it, but I know that Marie Antoinette was the Queen consort of France and married with Louis XVI of France, and they had three children and she was executed by guillotine at the height of the French Revolution in 1793, for the crime of treason.

things that I know...