Why were so many female members of Hapsburg family named Maria something?

Upvote:15

Because they are Catholic. No other reason. Doesn't matter if you are a boy or girl. It's very common practise to give children many baptismal names, including Maria. To both girls and boys. Perhaps not today, but when I was baptized 60 years ago, it definitely was.

My parents 'blessed' me with that name too. Being a boy, and attending a non-Catholic school, I wasn't particularly happy with it. (We are in no way related to the Habsburgs!)

It is - or was - a Catholic custom. Not related to Germany or Eastern Europe. I grew up in The Netherlands where this was practised too.

With regard to the Habsburgs, it was very likely also family tradition. Especially as it was a first name for girls.

Jos 20431

📝 Were doctors who were drafted in the 1950/1960 years, compelled to take an officer's oath of allegiance?
📝 How did Edgar Allan Poe get promoted to Sergeant Major from Private in just 2 years?
📝 Movie refers to "denouncing a neighbor"--as a Jew? or a Jewish sympathizer? or both?
📝 What Roman Republican legal structures lasted into the Empire and which ones didn't?
📝 How did people clean their teeth in the past? (Greco-Roman to medieval age)
📝 Does U.S. law still apply to persons who were deported to Russia in 1919 using the "Soviet Ark"?
📝 Why did hobos (at least stereotypically) carry their belongings in a cloth on a stick on their shoulder?
📝 When did Cicero Minor die?
📝 Why did the jews leave Israel and spread out through the world?
📝 When did "whites only" signs (racial segregation) become illegal in the USA?
📝 Why did water stored on premodern ships "go brackish" or "go bad" while at sea?
📝 Is there a painting from before the colonization of the Americas depicting travelers from far away visiting European nobles?
📝 How much did helping the American Revolution cost France?
📝 When did it become customary to address the King/Queen of England as Majesty?
📝 Historical and biblical names for bottles of wine
📝 Tricolore: Why have the colors been chosen that way?
📝 What happened to the wealth of the Rothschild banking family?
📝 Why was Hamilton's idea of women and children working in factories so controversial?
📝 What kind of cloth did Genghis Khan use in his armor?
📝 How did the Emperor Titus die?
📝 Can you identify this US Army uniform?
📝 What was the typical error with dead reckoning navigation?
📝 Piece of cloth in bullets in pistols around the pirate age
📝 What differentiated Rome from other Mediterranean (e.g. Greek) city states?
📝 When did Tsar Nicholas II become Tsar of Russia?
📝 When did the practice of formal declaration of war start?
📝 Was sexual abuse/assault a unique feature of American Slavery or was there similar abuse in previous slave systems?
📝 Was the Gulf War 1990 a complete surprise, or was a military build up evident?
📝 What language is this artists signature written in and what does it say?
📝 Nazi Germany's secret service SD was first called Ic-Dienst, what does "Ic" stand for?

Source: stackoverflow.com

Travel Tips

Search Posts

📝 Why were so many female members of Hapsburg family named Maria something?
📝 Why were so many more Jewish men than Jewish women killed during the Holocaust?
📝 Why were so many of the earliest banks founded by cloth merchants?
📝 Why were fragments of the Mongol empire named after colors?
📝 Why were there so many suffect consuls during the Principate?
📝 Why were there so many Japanese Prime Ministers before and during WW2?
📝 Why didn't a noble family change their last name from a kind of duck to something more prestigious?
📝 Why did the Umayyads spare some of the male members of the Family (Ahl-al-Bait) after Karbala?
📝 Were any other members of the Kennedy (Political) family affected by Addison's disease?
📝 Why were penal colony members from Australia moved to San Francisco in 1840's?
📝 Why did many Hungarians support Maria Theresa?
📝 How many non-partisan (independent) legislature members were in the USA compared to the USSR?
📝 Why were there so many US military deaths outside of the major battles in WW2?
📝 Why were male oracles replaced by female oracles?
📝 Why are there so many Hungarian family names that have a pejorative tone?
📝 Why were there so many known (and caught) stage coach robbers?
📝 Why are there no statistics on how many ships were sunk by carriers in Ww2?
📝 Why were old fortifications shaped like stars and not like circles?
📝 Why were ships-of-the line not supposed to open fire on frigates during fleet actions?
📝 Why Were Madagascar and New Zealand Discovered So Late?
📝 Why were Navajo code talkers used during WW2?
📝 Why are so many metros underground? Isn't that more expensive than an elevated system?
📝 Why were the Romans unable to conquer Germania?
📝 Why were there no internment camps for German-American citizens in USA during WW2?
📝 Why were Spain and Portugal neutral / not invaded in WWII?
📝 Why were there no nuclear detonations in 1959?
📝 Why were the Allies so much better cryptanalysts?
📝 In the Soviet Union, why was the Cheka renamed so many times?
📝 Why were there no religious wars in Poland?
📝 Why were women targeted as witches?

Why were so many female members of Hapsburg family named Maria something?

More post

Search Posts

Related post