Countess Maria Draskovich of Trakostjan

Who was Countess Maria Draskovich of Trakostjan?

Countess Maria Draskovich of Trakostjan (8 March 1904 – 10 June 1969) was first wife of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, head of the House of Wittelsbach and pretender to the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1955 to 1996.

Her family, Draskovich of Trakostjan, belonged to an ancient Croatian noble family of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Through her mother she was descendant of Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria by her second marriage to Adam Albert, Count of Neipperg, Marie Louise was the Empress consort of Napoleon I of France from 1810 to 1814 and Duchess of Parma from 1814 to her death.

Countess Marie married on 3 September 1930 in Berchtesgaden, to Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, son of Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria and his first wife, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria and grandson of King Ludwig III of Bavaria.

She died in 1969 at the age of 65, her husband later married secondly in 1971 to Countess Marie-Jenke Keglevich of Buzin. They had no issue.