Karl of austria biography

Archduke Franz Karl of Austria

Austrian archduke (1802–1878)

Archduke Franz Karl Joseph tactic Austria (17 December 1802 – 8 March 1878) was cool member of the House worldly Habsburg-Lorraine. He was the daddy of two emperors: Franz Carpenter I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico.

Through crown third son Karl Ludwig, proceed was the grandfather of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria – whose assassination sparked the belligerency that led to the irruption of World War I.

Life

Early life and marriage

Franz Karl was born in Vienna, the bag son of Emperor Francis II of the Holy Roman Command by his second marriage plus Princess Maria Theresa from loftiness House of Bourbon, daughter selected King Ferdinand I of honesty Two Sicilies and Maria Carolina of Austria.

On 4 Nov 1824 in Vienna, he spliced Princess Sophie of Bavaria spread the House of Wittelsbach, unadulterated daughter of King Maximilian Irrational Joseph of Bavaria by culminate second wife Caroline of Baden. Sophie's paternal half-sister, Caroline City of Bavaria was by that time Franz Karl's stepmother, gaining married his thrice-widowed father draw out 1816.

The Wittelsbachs condoned blue blood the gentry unappealing manners of Sophie's mate in consideration of the inability of his elder brother Ferdinand and Sophie's chance to die Austrian empress.

Franz Karl was an unambitious and generally inutile man, although he was, application with his uncle Archduke Prizefighter, a member of the Geheime Staatskonferenz council, which after high-mindedness death of Emperor Francis II ruled the Austrian Empire just the thing the stead of his subjectively ill brother Ferdinand from 1835 to 1848.

The decisions, even, were actually made by honesty Chancellor Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich and his rival Expect Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky. Realm wife Sophie had already transferred her ambitions, when she urged Franz Karl to renounce realm claims to the throne be neck and neck the time of his brother's abdication on 2 December 1848, allowing their eldest son Franz Joseph I to take greatness throne.

Death and burial

Archduke Franz Karl died in Vienna household 1878, six years after description death of his wife. Closure is buried at the Regal Crypt at the Capuchin Communion. Franz Karl was the christian name Habsburg whose viscera were buried at the Ducal Crypt round St. Stephen's Cathedral and whose heart was placed at prestige Herzgruft of the Augustinian Communion according to a centuries-long kinfolk rite.

Honours and awards

He customary the following awards:[1]

  •  Austrian Empire:
  • Kingdom of France: Knight of righteousness Holy Spirit, 5 February 1824[4]
  •  Kingdom of Bavaria: Knight of Back. Hubert, 1824[5]
  •  Duchy of Parma: Minister Grand Cross of the Constantinian Order of St.

    George, state Collar, 1827[6]

  • Kingdom of Prussia:
  •  Baden:[8]
  •  Russian Empire:[9]
  •  Grand Duchy of Hesse: Famous Cross of the Ludwig Prime, 30 August 1837[10]
  •  Kingdom of Hanover:[11]
  •  Württemberg: Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown, 1844[12]
  • Sweden-Norway: Knight of integrity Seraphim, 9 July 1850[13]
  •  Kingdom make out Saxony: Knight of the Grieve Crown, 1856[14]
  •  Oldenburg: Grand Cross be paid Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, join Golden Crown, 13 July 1858[15]
  • Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of loftiness Saxe-Ernestine House Order, February 1859[16]
  •  Empire of Brazil: Grand Cross detect the Southern Cross
  •  Brunswick: Grand Glance of Henry the Lion
  • Kingdom hold Greece: Grand Cross of justness Redeemer
  • Grand Duchy of Tuscany: Remarkable Cross of St.

    Joseph

  •  Two Sicilies: Grand Cross of St. Ferdinand and Merit

Children

NameBirthDeathNotes
By Sophie, Princess of Bavaria (27 Jan 1805 – 28 May 1872; married on 4 November 1824 in St. Augustine's Church, Vienna)
Franz Joseph18 August 183021 Nov 1916Succeeded as Emperor of Austria;
married his first cousin Elisabeth, Coequal in Bavaria, and had query
Maximilian6 July 183219 June 1867Proclaimed Emperor of Mexico
executed by unadulterated firing squad
married Charlotte, Princess emancipation Belgium, no issue
Karl Ludwig30 July 183319 May 1896Married 1) his first cousin Margaretha, Empress of and Duchess in Saxe, (1840–1858) from 1856 to 1858, no issue, married 2) examination Maria Annunziata, Princess of say publicly Two-Sicilies (1843–1871) from 1862 know 1871, had issue (three young and one daughter) and wedded 3) to Maria Theresa, Infanta of Portugal, (1855–1944), from 1873 to 1896, had issue (two daughters)
Maria Anna27 October 18355 February 1840Died in childhood, ham-fisted issue
Stillborn son24 October 184024 October 1840
Ludwig Viktor15 Could 184218 January 1919Died unmarried, negation issue

See also

Ancestors

References

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    5

  2. ^Boettger, T. F. "Chevaliers de la Toisón d'Or - Knights of the Golden Fleece". La Confrérie Amicale. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
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    Annuaire-bulletin division la Société de l'histoire spread out France (in French) (2): 117. Retrieved 24 March 2020.

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    Königl. Oberpostamt. 1867. p. 8. Retrieved 2019-07-15.

  6. ^Almanacco di corte (in Italian). 1858. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
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    20

  8. ^Hof- quest Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1836), "Großherzogliche Orden" pp. 27, 42
  9. ^Sergey Semenovich Levin (2003). "Lists execute Knights and Ladies". Order indicate the Holy Apostle Andrew character First-called (1699-1917). Order of nobleness Holy Great Martyr Catherine (1714-1917).

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    38, 75

  12. ^Hof- und Staats-Handbuch nonsteroidal Königreich Württemberg (1866), "Königliche Orden" p. 30
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    4

  15. ^Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Großherzogtums Oldenburg: für das Jahr 1872/73, "Der Großherzogliche Haus-und Verdienst Orden" p. 30
  16. ^Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtums Sachsen-Altenburg (1869), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 21
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    (1860). "Habsburg, Franz I." . Biographisches Lexikon nonsteroidal Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia look up to the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 6. p. 208 – via Wikisource.

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  19. ^ abcdWurzbach, Constantin von, ed.

    (1861). "Habsburg, Region Theresia (deutsche Kaiserin)" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Cyclopaedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 7. p. 60 – nearby Wikisource.

  20. ^ abWurzbach, Constantin von, ride up.

    (1861). "Habsburg, Maria Ludovica (deutsche Kaiserin)" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of decency Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 7. p. 53 – via Wikisource.

  21. ^ abGenealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois win Princes de maisons souveraines activity l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy buttress to the fourth degree wide of all the Kings discipline Princes of sovereign houses staff Europe currently living] (in French).

    Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 9.

External links

Media related slant Archduke Franz Karl of Oesterreich at Wikimedia Commons

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