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| | The Order of Saint Stephen of Tuscany (Ordine di Santo Stefano di Toscana) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Francis was succeeded by his brother Ferdinand I (1587-1609), who supported the knights in their attempt to raise the siege of Famagusta in 1607; unfortunately they were repulsed but, with forty-five galleys, captured and pillaged the city of Bona in Algeria. |
 | | Using the pretext that Tuscany had refused to join Sardinia in the latter's war against Austria, his abdication as Grand Duke and Grand Master was forced in favor of his eldest son, who succeeded as Ferdinand IV on 21 July 1859. |
 | | The Grand Duke Ferdinand IV, who died in 1908, continued to award the Order (without any entitlement to a prebend), [16] until his death in 1908, when he was succeeded as Grand Master by his second son, the Archduke Joseph-Ferdinand. |
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