Editing Maria von Trapp (section)

===Marriage===
[[File:SMU-5 Trapp.jpg|thumb|[[Georg von Trapp]] on the bridge of submarine [[SM U-5 (Austria-Hungary)|''U-5'']] of the [[Austro-Hungarian Navy]] (1915)]]

While still teaching at the Abbey in 1926, Maria was asked to teach [[Maria Franziska von Trapp]], one of seven children born to widowed naval commander [[Georg von Trapp]].<ref name="mjmvtspwp" /><ref name="chrono">{{cite news|author=Trapp Family Lodge|author-link=Trapp Family Lodge|url=http://www.trappfamily.com/agathevontrapp |title=The von&nbsp;Trapp Chronology |access-date=20 September 2014 |quote=Maria was chosen by the Mother Abbess to help the Baron Georg von Trapp with his seven children and tutor young Maria who had contracted scarlet fever. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830182358/http://www.trappfamily.com/agathevontrapp |archive-date=30 August 2011 }}</ref> His first wife, the Anglo-Austrian heiress [[Agathe Whitehead]], had earlier died in 1922 from [[scarlet fever]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Trapp Family Lodge|author-link=Trapp Family Lodge|url=http://www.trappfamily.com/agathevontrapp |title=Agathe von&nbsp;Trapp 1913&ndash;2010 |access-date=20 September 2014 |quote=When Agathe was 10, her mother died of scarlet fever. ... |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830182358/http://www.trappfamily.com/agathevontrapp |archive-date=30 August 2011 }}</ref> Eventually, Maria began to look after the other children: [[Rupert von Trapp|Rupert]], [[Agathe von Trapp|Agathe]], [[Werner von Trapp|Werner]], [[Hedwig von Trapp|Hedwig]], [[Johanna von Trapp|Johanna]], and [[Martina von Trapp|Martina]].

Captain von Trapp saw how much she cared about his children and asked her to marry him, although he was 25 years her senior. Frightened, she fled back to Nonnberg Abbey to seek guidance from the [[Abbess|mother abbess]], [[Virgilia Lütz]], who advised her it was God's will that she should marry him. She then returned to the family and accepted his proposal. She wrote in her autobiography that she was very angry on her wedding day, both at God and at her new husband, because she really wanted to be a nun. "I really and truly was not in love. I liked him but didn't love him. However, I loved the children, so in a way I really married the children. I learned to love him more than I have ever loved before or after."<ref name=singers/> They married at [[Nonnberg Abbey]] on 26 November 1927 and had three children together: Rosmarie (1929–2022), Eleonore ("Lorli") (1931–2021) and [[Johannes von Trapp|Johannes]] (born 1939).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trauungsbuch - TRBXV {{!}} Salzburg-Dompfarre {{!}} Salzburg: Rk. Erzdiözese Salzburg {{!}} Österreich {{!}} Matricula Online |url=https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/oesterreich/salzburg/salzburg-dompfarre/TRBXV/?pg=284 |access-date=9 January 2024 |website=data.matricula-online.eu}}</ref>