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Franz Karl of Austria

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Birth Date:
17.12.1802
Death date:
08.03.1878
Categories:
Aristocrat, Duke
Nationality:
 austrian
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Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria (17 December 1802 – 8 March 1878) from the House of Habsburg was father of two emperors (Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico) as well as the grandfather of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination sparked the hostilities that led to the outbreak of World War I, and the great-grandfather of the last Habsburg emperor Karl I.

He was born in Vienna, the third son of Emperor Francis II (I) by his second marriage with Princess Maria Theresa from the House of Bourbon, daughter of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Carolina of Habsburg-Lorraine. On 4 November 1824 in Vienna he married Princess Sophie of Bavaria from the House of Wittelsbach, a daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria by his second wife Caroline of Baden. The Wittelsbach condoned the unappealing manners of her husband in consideration of the incapability of his elder brother Ferdinand and Sophie's chance to become Austrian Empress.

Franz Karl was an unambitious and generally ineffectual man, although he was together with his uncle Archduke Louis a member of the Geheime Staatskonferenz council, which after the death of Emperor Francis I ruled the Austrian Empire in the stead of his mentally retarded brother Ferdinand from 1835 to 1848. The decisions however were actually made by the Minister of State Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich and his rival Count Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky. His wife Sophie had already given up her ambitions, when she urged Franz Karl to renounce his claims to the throne at the time of his brother's abdication on 2 December 1848, allowing their eldest son Franz Joseph I to take the throne.

Death and burial

Archduke Franz Karl died in Vienna in 1878, six years after the death of his wife. He is buried at the Imperial Crypt at the Capuchin Church. Franz Karl was the last Habsburg whose viscera were entombed at the Ducal Crypt of St. Stephen's Cathedral and whose heart was placed at the Herzgruft of the Augustinian Church according to a centuries-long family rite.

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Francis IIFrancis IIFather12.02.176802.03.1835
        2Francis Jozefs I HabsburgsFrancis Jozefs I HabsburgsSon18.08.183021.11.1916
        3
        Johann Nepomuk of AustriaBrother30.08.180519.02.1809
        4Joseph Franz of AustriaJoseph Franz of AustriaBrother09.04.179930.06.1807
        5Ferdinand I of AustriaFerdinand I of AustriaBrother19.04.179329.06.1875
        6Marie LouiseMarie LouiseSister12.12.179117.12.1847
        7Maria Anna of AustriaMaria Anna of AustriaSister08.06.180428.12.1858
        8
        Marie CarolineSister08.06.179416.03.1795
        9
        Ludovika Elisabeth of AustriaSister18.02.179024.07.1791
        10
        Caroline LudovikaSister04.12.179530.06.1799
        11Maria LeopoldinaMaria LeopoldinaSister22.01.179711.12.1826
        12
        Amalie Theresa of AustriaSister06.04.180707.04.1807
        13Clementina of AustriaClementina of AustriaSister01.03.179803.09.1881
        14Marie Caroline of AustriaMarie Caroline of AustriaSister08.04.180122.05.1832
        15Archduke CharlesArchduke CharlesUncle05.09.177130.04.1847
        16Ferdinand III Ferdinando Giuseppe Giovanni BaptistaFerdinand III Ferdinando Giuseppe Giovanni BaptistaUncle06.05.176918.06.1824
        17Marija Terēze BurboneMarija Terēze BurboneAunt18.12.177819.10.1851
        18Maria Theresa of AustriaMaria Theresa of AustriaAunt14.01.176707.11.1827
        19SisiSisiDaughter in-law24.12.183710.09.1898
        20Luijs XVI BurbonsLuijs XVI BurbonsGrandfather23.08.175421.01.1793
        21Leopold IILeopold IIGrandfather05.05.174701.03.1792
        22Marie AntoinetteMarie AntoinetteGrandmother02.11.175516.10.1793
        23Maria Luisa of SpainMaria Luisa of SpainGrandmother24.11.174515.05.1792
        24Рудольф (кронпринц Австрии)Рудольф (кронпринц Австрии)Grandson21.08.185830.01.1889
        25Francis IFrancis IGreat grandfather08.12.170818.08.1765
        26Maria TheresaMaria TheresaGreat grandmother13.05.171729.11.1780

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