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Archduke Ferdinand Karl Anton Joseph Johann Stanislaus of Austria-Este (1754-1806), fourth son and fourteenth child of Franz I and Maria Theresa, became heir to the Duchies of Modena and Reggio through his marriage to the Este heiress, and served as commander of an Austrian army in the War of the Third Coalition (1805).
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este (1781-1850), was the younger son of Archduke Ferdinand Karl Anton Joseph Johann Stanislaus.
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este (1821-1849), was the younger son of Duke Francis IV of Modena.
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 Royal Family of Europe - pafg06 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Maximilian, Archduke Of AUSTRIA was born on 23 Dec 1774 in Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
Ferdinando Archduke Of AUSTRIA was born on 1 Jun 1754 in Schloss Schonbrunn, Wien, Austria.
Maximilian Franz, Archduke Of AUSTRIA was born on 8 Dec 1756 in Wien, Wien, Austria.
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 Maximilian I of Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maximilian was born in Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria, the second son of Franz Karl Josef, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie Friederike Dorothee Wilhelmine Prinzessin von Bayern.
Maximilian was born as His Imperial Highness Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia.
Maximilian landed at Veracruz on May 28, 1864; but from the very outset he found himself involved in serious difficulties since the Mexican liberals, led by President Benito Juárez, refused to recognize his rule and there was continuous warfare between his French troops and the Mexican republicans.
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 Archduke Franz Karl of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Anonymoused]
Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria (7 December 1802 – 8 March 1878) was father of two emperors and the grandfather of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, whose shooting was the occasion of the start of World War I.
Franz Karl was an unambitious and generally ineffectual man. Although part of the Council that ruled in the stead of his mentally retarded brother Emperor Ferdinand from 1835 to 1848.
Archduke Franz Karl died in Vienna in 1878, six years after the death of his wife.
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 Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph Maria von Habsburg-Lothringen d'Este
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph Maria von Habsburg-Lothringen was born at Graz on 18 July 1863, son of Karl Ludwig, Kaiser Franz Josef's second brother.
While the ascension of his son, Archduke Maximilian, to the throne of Austria was prevented, Franz Ferdinand's heir was not prevented from ascending the throne of Hungary, whose royal laws did not hinge on Habsburg family law.
Franz Josef may have disliked Franz Ferdinand's marriage, his associates, and his political ideas, but he also realised that the Archduke was a survivor, made strong by his childhood illness, and needed some experience before ascending the thrones of the Dual Monarchy.
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 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este (sometimes called Francis Ferdinand in English) (December 18, 1863 – June 28, 1914) was born in Graz, Austria and was a Habsburg Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Franz Ferdinand was nephew of the Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria and next in line to the crown following the suicide of his cousin Crown Prince Rudolph at Mayerling (January 30, 1889) and the death of his father Karl Ludwig (May 19, 1896).
In fact, the Archduke was one of the leading advocates of maintaining the peace within the Austro-Hungarian government during both the Bosnian Crisis of 1908-1909 and the Balkan Wars Crises of 1912-1913.
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 Sophie Chotek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, first met Sophie at a dance in Prague in 1888.
Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Pope Leo XIII all made representations to Franz Josef on Franz Ferdinand's behalf arguing that the disagreement was undermining the stability of the monarchy.
Franz Ferdinand was allowed to marry Sophie but it was stipulated that her descendants would not be allowed to succeed to the throne.
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 Franz Karl Josef, Archduke of Austria. Who is Franz Karl Josef, Archduke of Austria? What is Franz Karl Josef, Archduke ...
Franz Karl Josef, Archduke of Austria (7 December 1802 - 8 March 1878) was father of two emperors and the grandfather of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, whose shooting was the occasion of the start of World War I.
He was born in Vienna, the second son of Emperor Franz I of Austria (1768-1835) and his wife Maria Theresa of the Two Sicilies (1772-1807).
On 4 November 1824 in Vienna he married Sophie Friederike Dorothee Wilhelmine Prinzessin von Bayern, the daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756-1825) and his wife Karoline Frederike Wilhelmine of Baden (1776-1841).
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 Maximilian I of Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, (July 6, 1832 – June 19, 1867) was a member of Austria's Imperial Habsburg family.
The sentence was carried out on June 19, 1867 when Maximilian was executed (together with his generals Miguel Miramón and) by a firing squad.
Maximilian's body was mutilated by Mexican republicans before being buried in the Imperial Vault at Kapuzinergruft, Vienna, Austria, early the following year.
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 Emperor Franz Josef   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Franz Josef I (English: Francis Joseph) Emperor of Austria, king of Hungary, (1830-1916), born in Vienna.
Franz Josef was the eldest son of Archduke Franz Karl (Francis Charles), who was brother and heir of Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I. Because his father renounced his right to the throne, Franz Josef became emperor when Ferdinand abdicated near the end of the revolution of 1848.
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo in June 1914.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Emperor Franz Josef I
Austria's relationship with Russia was irreparably damaged as a consequence of Austria's withholding of support during the Anglo-Russian Crimean War of 1853-56, a factor in the July Crisis of 1914.
Franz Josef was its monarch, serving alongside his wife Elisabeth whom he married in 1853 (and who was regarded by many Hungarians as their true monarch).
Franz Josef left the conduct of the war strictly to his military officials, although by 1916 he believed victory to be impossible and the break-up of his empire likely.
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 Propaganda Postcards of the Great War (World War 1), Sarajevo Murder
Franz Ferdinand, eldest son of Carl Ludwig, the brother of emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, was born in 1863.
Franz Ferdinand's driver, Franz Urban, drove on extremely fast and other members of the "Black Hand" were unable to fire their guns or hurl their bombs at the archduke's car.
Franz Urban drove the couple to Konak, the governor's residence, but although both were still alive when they arrived, theu died from their wounds soon afterwards.
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The union of Austria and Hungary in 1867 is a good example of such a marriage.
Austria's defeat at the hands of French and Piedmont forces in 1859 and its crushing loss to Prussia in the Seven Weeks' War crippled Austria's influence in Europe and encouraged resistance within the borders of its empire.
Although Austria and Hungary each had a parliament to manage their domestic affairs and those of their respective provinces, a joint cabinet controlled mostly by Austrian and Hungarian aristocrats handled foreign affairs, military affairs, and finances.
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 FRANCIS JOSEPH I. - LoveToKnow Article on FRANCIS JOSEPH I.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
FRANCIS JOSEPH I. - LoveToKnow Article on FRANCIS JOSEPH I. (1830), emperor of Austria, king of Bohemia, and apostolic king of Hungary, was the eldest son of the archduke Francis Charles, second son of the reigning emperor Francis I., being bornon the i8~h of August 1830.
Ferdinand, now that the young archduke was of age, was able to carry out the abdication which he and his wife had long desired.
A law was passed by the Hungarian diet regularizing the libdication of Ferdinand; at the beginning of June Francis Joseph signed the inaugural diploma and took the oath in Magyar to observe the constitution; on the 8th he was solemnly crowned king of Hungary.
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The Archduke held the rank of Admiral and was appointed the Emperor's deputy as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.
It was a known fact that the Archduke had frequent conferences with the leaders of the national minorities in the Budapest Parliament such as the Slovak, Hodza, and the Rumanians, Vajda Vojvod and Julius Maniu.
Slovenia and Dalmatia, which belonged to Austria, Croatia, the land of the Crown of St. Stephen, and the State lands of Bosnia-Herzegovina, roused fierce antagonism in the Serbian nationalists, who were aiming at acquiring an outlet to the sea and a South-Slav realm with Belgrade as its capital.
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 Articles - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Austria played a major role in the final defeat of France—in recognition of this, Francis, represented by Clemens von Metternich, presided over the Congress of Vienna, helping to form the Concert of Europe and the Holy Alliance, ushering in an era of conservatism and reactionism in Europe.
She was the daughter of Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria and Maria Beatrice d'Este, Princess of Modena.
She was daughter of Maximilian I of Bavaria and had been previously married to William I of Württemberg.
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 Trenches on the Web - Bio: Emperor Franz Josef   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ascent: Franz Josef was crowned Emperor of Austria in 1848 at age 18.
Franz Josef was sensitive to these losses and was determined not to allow further decay of the empire by losing Austro-Hungarian holdings in the Balkans to Serbia.
He had numerous difficulties with his nephew and heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who would be assassinated by Serbian nationalists on 28-Jun-1914 at a place called Sarajevo.
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 Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand, eldest son of Carl Ludwig, the brother of Emperor Franz Josef, was born in 1863.
Franz Ferdinand's driver, Franz Urban, drove on extremely fast and other members of the Black Hand group on the route, Cvijetko Popovic, Gavrilo Princip, Danilo Ilic and Trifko Grabez, were unable to fire their guns or hurl their bombs at the Archduke's car.
The Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, nephew of the aged Emperor and heir to the throne, was assassinated in the streets of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, yesterday afternoon.
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 European royalty Austria: Francis Joseph I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Franz Karl's parents were Emperor Francis II (1768-) and Maria Theresa of Naples (1772-).
Austria's position within Germany was radically altered when it was swiftly defeated by Prussia in the Astro-Prussian War or German Civil War (1866).
This of course led to the Franz Ferduinand's assasination while visiting Bosnia in 1914 by a Serbian nationalist and as a result World War I. It also layed the ground work for the terrible attrocities that occurred in Bosnia during Word War II and in the 1990s after the disolution of Yugosalvia.
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 Historical Background
Ferdinand Maximilian (Hapsburg) Archduke of Austria and Emperor of Mexico (1864-67) was the younger brother of Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph (1830-1916), son of Franz Karl (1802-1878) and Sophia of Bavaria.
The archduke was trained as a naval officer and attained the rank of rear admiral at the age of 22.
Charlotte (Coburg) of Belgium (1840-1927), daughter of Leopold of Belgium (1790-1865), and Louise of France (1812-1850) married Maximilian, Archduke of Austria in 1857.
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 Maximilian of Mexico History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The second son of Archduke Franz Karl and the Archduchess Sophie of Austria was born in the palace of Schönbrunn in Vienna on the 6th July, 1832.
Ferdinand Maximilian's liberalism aroused less enthusiasm in Vienna, however, where he was increasingly seen as being in opposition to his imperial brother's government.
Maximilian and his loyal generals Miramón and Mejía were arraigned before a military tribunal and condemned to death.
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 Russia: A Country Study
The territories that constitute modern Austria were, for most of their history, constituent parts of the German nation and were linked to one another only insofar as they were all feudal possessions of one of the leading dynasties in Europe, the Habsburgs.
Although Maximilian's sympathetic policies toward the Protestants contrasted with his brothers' efforts to reestablish Catholicism as the sole religion in their lands, military policy, not religious doctrine, was to divide the dynasty in the final years of the sixteenth century and open the door to the religious wars of the seventeenth century.
Austria's decision to organize itself as a unitary state also set the terms for dealing with the German nationalists and liberals sitting in Frankfurt: Austria would enter a unified Germany with all of its territories, not merely the German and Bohemian portions.
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Franz Josef's mother was a strong willed woman who, in 1848, was described as "the only man in the Hofburg".
Franz Josef's only son Rudolf was involved in a murder-suicide with his mistress at Mayerling in 1889.
The Golden Jubilee of Franz Josef was marred by the assassination of his wife by an anarchist Luigi Lucheni om 1898.
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Franz Joseph the son of Archduke Franz Karl, younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand I and grandson of Franz I, was born in 1830.
Franz Joseph was a worthy and earnest representative, the typical representative of a ruler sent by God's Grace, in the best sense of the word.
Franz married Herzogin Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie von Bayern, daughter of Herzog Maximilian von Bayern and Prinzessin Ludovika Wilhelmine von Bayern, on 24 Apr 1854 in Augustiner Kirche, Wien.
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 Sophie Chotek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Countess Sophie Chotek von Chotkova (born March 1, 1868 in Stuttgart ~ died June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo) was duchess of Hohenburg and wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
When Franz Ferdinand began to make regular visits to the home of Archduke Friedrich of Pressburg, it was assumed that he had fallen in love with his eldest daughter, Marie Christine.
Emperor Franz Josef immediately made it clear to Archduke Franz that he would not be allowed to marry Sophie.
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Austria, Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph Maria - of b.
Austria, Albrecht III 'The Braided' (Duke) - of b.
Austria, Franz Josef I Karl (Emperor) - of b.
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 Franz Josef
Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Pope Leo XIII all made representations to the emperor on Franz Ferdinand's behalf arguing that the the disagreement was undermining the stability of the monarchy.
Franz Josef and all of his family, marked their disapproval by refusing to attend the wedding.
Franz Josef died on 21st November 1916 and was succeeded by his great-nephew Karl I.
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 Austrian Rulers 1657-1918   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Archduke Maximilian (brother of Francis Joseph) served as commander in chief of the Austrian fleet and governor general of Lombardo-Venetia (1857—59).
Elizabeth (age 62) was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary.
Austria declared war on Serbia, which began World War 1.
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 Archduke von Austria Franz Ferdinand
Politics: Considered more flexible in matters of military and domestic affairs than his uncle Emperor Franz Josef, he was a reformist with new ideas to be put into practice when he ascended to the Hapsburg throne.
Fate: The Archduke and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo on 28-Jun-1914 (their fourteenth wedding anniversary) by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
The Archduke's role of Inspector General of the Austrian army had brought him to Sarajevo for the summer maneuvers.
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