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	Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph 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.
		Duke Francis had testamented most of his private property to Francis Ferdinand, upon certain conditions, one of which was the use of the Este name.
		Franz Ferdinand is interred in Schloß Artstetten, Austria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Ferdinand (426 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Fr-Franj)
		Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary.
		Francis was a theist, in sympathy with almost every movement of free thought, and as versatile as he was eccentric.
		Francis Turner Palgrave was the son of Sir Francis Palgrave.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /C50A.HTM (2236 words)

	Francis Ferdinand Biography / Biography of Francis Ferdinand Biography Biography
		Francis Ferdinand (1863-1914) was archduke of Austria and heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
		Francis Ferdinand's influence grew, and by 1913 he was inspector general of the combined armed forces.
		Simultaneously, Francis Ferdinand also toyed with the "trialistic" solution, which was to be achieved by granting the South Slavs an equal partnership with the Austrians and Hungarians in the empire.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-francis-ferdinand (505 words)

	Francis Ferdinand -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Francis Ferdinand was born on Dec. 18, 1863, in Graz, Austria.
		He was the son of the future King Francis I and the Spanish infanta María Isabel, a member of the branch of the House of Bourbon that had ruled Naples and Sicily from 1734.
		A relatively weak and somewhat inept ruler, he was greatly influenced by his wife, Maria Carolina of Austria, who furthered the policy of her favourite adviser, the Englishman Sir John Acton.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9311319?tocId=9311319 (757 words)

	HOUSE - Online Information article about HOUSE
		heir to the Habsburg monarchy was the emperor's nephew Francis Ferdinand (b.
		branch of the family was in 1909 represented by the emperor Francis Joseph, whose father was the archduke Francis Charles (1802—1878), and whose grandfather was the emperor Francis II.
		person of Ferdinand in 1814, it remained under his rule, and then under that of his son Leopold (1797—1870), until the rising of 18J9, when the Austrians were driven out and the grand-duchy was added to the kingdom of Sardinia.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HOR_I25/HOUSE.html (2119 words)

	Search Results for "Francis"
		Francis Joseph, or Franz Joseph, 1830-1916, emperor of Austria (1848-1916), king of Hungary (1867-1916), nephew of Ferdinand, who abdicated in his favor.
		Francis Ferdinand, 1863-1914, Austrian archduke, heir apparent (after 1889) of his uncle, Emperor Francis Joseph.
		Francis, Saint, or Saint Francis of Assisi (se´ze) (KEY), 1182?-1226, founder of the Franciscans, one of the greatest Christian saints, b.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Francis (219 words)

	Austria
		Francis Ferdinand (German Franz Ferdinand), (1863-1914), archduke of Austria, born in Graz, son of Archduke Charles Louis and nephew of Emperor Francis Joseph.
		He was the eldest son of Archduke Otto (1865-1906) and grandnephew of Emperor Francis Joseph I. Following the assassination of his uncle, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and the death of Francis Joseph, Charles succeeded as emperor of Austria and king of Hungary.
		In 1736 she married Francis Stephen of Lorraine (later Holy Roman Emperor Francis I), and the couple eventually had 16 children, including two future emperors, Joseph II and Leopold II, and Marie Antoinette, later queen of France.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/Austria.htm (2434 words)

	AllRefer.com - Francis Joseph (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		In 1914 his nephew, the heir apparent, Francis Ferdinand, was assassinated, and his death was the spark that set off World War I. Francis Joseph died before the empire actually fell apart under the impact of military defeat, as it did under his successor, Charles I.
		Francis Joseph or Franz Joseph, 1830–1916, emperor of Austria (1848–1916), king of Hungary (1867–1916), nephew of Ferdinand, who abdicated in his favor.
		When Russian Pan-Slavism backed Serbia, particularly after the annexation of Bosnia and Hercegovina (1908), a situation was created that helped bring on World War I. Francis Joseph's private life was beset by the tragedies falling on his wife, Empress Elizabeth, his brother, Maximilian of Mexico, and his son, Archduke Rudolf.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FrancisJ.html (444 words)

	Austrian Rulers 1657-1918
		However, Francis Ferdinand married a woman of "lower station" (Countess Sophie Chotek), and consequently his children could not inherit the throne.
		Francis Joseph crowned Emperor of Hungary at Pesth.
		Archduke Maximilian (brother of Francis Joseph) served as commander in chief of the Austrian fleet and governor general of Lombardo-Venetia (1857—59).
	www.krischanphoto.com /austria/1848/1848.htm (726 words)

	boys clothing : European royalty Austria - -Franz Ferdinand
		Francis Joseph's nephew Francis Ferdinand was made heir to the throne after the untimely death of Archduke Rudolf.
		Francis Ferdinand was born in 1863, a weak child, some thought he would not survive.
		Francis Ferdinand's mother was Princess Annunciata of Sicily de Bourbon (1843-).
	histclo.hispeed.com /royal/ost/royal-ausff.htm (2951 words)

	Final Study Guide 2
		Francis Ferdinand: Francis Ferdinand was the heir to the Austrian throne.
		Sarajevo: this is where Gavrillo Princip assassinated Francis Ferdinand.
		Kaiser William II: The leader of Germany that advised Francis Joseph to attack Serbia.
	aaronlefevre.freeservers.com /finalsg2.html (6609 words)

	Hapsburgs
		During the Revolutions of 1848, which endangered the existence of the multinational Habsburg empire, Ferdinand was compelled to abdicate in favor of his nephew, Francis Joseph.
		Ferdinand I of Austria and Hungary served as Emperor of Austria (1835-48) and King of Hungary (1830-48).
		As a Habsburg, Ferdinand became Holy Roman Emperor in 1619 and, allied with Bavaria and the Catholic League, defeated the Bohemians at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620.
	www.geocities.com /historyofaustria/habsburgs.html (6790 words)

	Ferdinand IV, King of Naples by MENGS, Anton Raphael
		Having ceded power again to his son Francis, Ferdinand, under the pretext of protecting the new constitution, obtained his parliament's permission to attend the Congress of Laibach early in 1821.
		In 1806 Napoleon's army captured Naples, forcing Ferdinand's flight to Sicily, where, yielding to British pressure to mitigate his absolutist rule, he removed Maria Carolina from the court, appointed his son Francis as regent, and granted the Sicilians a constitution.
		Ferdinand, encouraged by the arrival of the British fleet of Admiral Horatio Nelson, attacked the French-supported Roman republic in 1798.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/m/mengs/ferdinan.html (455 words)

	the life of the austrian emperor Francis Joseph part one
		Francis Joseph was aware of the fact that granting such privileges to Hungary meant the end of the Austrian Empire as he had known it.
		Francis Joseph, cadet of the army, had his baptism of the fire on the Italian front, on May 6 1948, during the battle of Saint Lucy.
		Although Francis Joseph had remained in the capital city, the abandonment of it from his family was seen as a sign of weakness.
	www.geocities.com /iturks/html/tired_emperor.html (3526 words)

	Schloss Artstetten
		Due to the morganatic marriage of Francis Ferdinand and Sophie, his spouse and their children were barred from a burial in the Capuchin Crypt, the traditional burial place of the Habsburgs.
		As Francis Ferdinand wished to be buried beside his wife, he decided to build a family crypt under the castle church, this was finished in 1910.
		In order to present a broad image to the public of the Heir to the Throne, assassinated in 1914 in Sarajevo, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand Museum was opened in the castle in 1982.
	www.schloss-artstetten.at /englisch/schloss_chronik.htm (365 words)

	21ST GENERATION
		Ferdinand of AUSTRIA was born in 1868 in Austria - son of Archduke Charles Louis.
		Charles Louis of HAPSBURG-LORRAINE Archduke of Austria was born in 1833 in Lorraine - son of Francis.
		He was also known as Karl Ludwig of Austria.
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d7221.htm (155 words)

	Immediate Cause of War
		On that day, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, and his wife were shot dead by a young Serbian nationalist of the Black Hand at Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital.
		Francis Joseph, the reigning monarch was eighty-four years old and expected to die soon.
		Although she could not find any evidence that the Serbian government was connected with the assassination, Austria consciously exploited the occasion to destroy Serbia as a state to put an end to the Serbian threat to the existence of the Dual Monarchy for ever.
	www.thecorner.org /wwi/outbreak.htm (904 words)

	2. World War I to 1848-49
		By the autumn they had forced Ferdinand V to abdicate in favour of his eighteen year old nephew Francis Joseph, unfettered by previous undertakings or a Coronation Oath; the Austrian army was then put in the field too, initially under the command of Field Marshal Prince Alfred Windischgrätz.
		Earlier that year Francis Joseph had 'abolished' Hungary by decree; the Hungarian Parliament had responded by depriving him, and the House of Habsburg as a whole, of the throne.
		The ire of conservatives at Court, shaken by revolutionary events in Vienna that had forced Metternich to resign and flee abroad, was directed against Hungary because in April 1848 its Parliament (Diet, as it was until then called) had passed a raft of progressive Acts, usually referred to as the April Laws.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /spalffy/h_19.htm (911 words)

	History 20
		Arriving in the turmoil of the region was the nephew of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
		Ferdinand and his wife had arrived to watch army maneuvers near Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia.
		Franz Ferdinand's car could go fast enough until it reached this spot but here it was forced to slow down for the turn.
	www.saskschools.ca /~history20/unit1/sec1_10.html (463 words)

	The Assassination at Sarajevo
		Francis Ferdinand's car could go fast enough until it reached this spot but here it was forced to slow down for the turn.
		On Sunday, June 28, 1914, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Francis Ferdinand, and his morganatic wife, Sofia Chotek, were assassinated at Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia.
		Two hours before Francis Ferdinand arrived in Sarajevo all the twenty-two conspirators were in their allotted positions, armed and ready.
	www.ucis.pitt.edu /eehistory/H200Readings/Topic6-R1.html (1456 words)

	Assassination of Francis Ferdinand
		Francis Ferdinand died shortly thereafter at the governor's residence across the river.
		Francis Ferdinand said: "Hang him as soon as you can or else Vienna will send him a decoration." They then drove back along the Appel Quay.
		Members of "Young Bosnia," a nationalist youth group, had planned to assassinate Francis Ferdinand when he was in Tolouse in January 1914.
	mars.acnet.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/ww1/lectures/assasination.html (2422 words)

	Tour of Tragedies - The Alamo, Dealey Plaza, Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial 3/6
		Archduchess Sophie, wife of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, was shot prior to her husband's being shot.
		Theory: The pre-World War I assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand is the corollary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
		As Francis Ferdinand and his party proceeded through Sarajevo, the first of the conspirators operatives tossed a bomb at the Archduke's automobile.
	www.visi.com /~tomcat/travelogue/sadpoc/sadpoc0003.shtml (3441 words)

	Document
		Bosnia was a new province within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Francis Ferdinand was heir to the empire’s throne.
		Unfazed, Francis Ferdinand attended a state ceremony and then rode to the hospital to see the wounded officers.
		Setting the Scene On June 28, 1914, Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife made a state visit to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia.
	www.phschool.com /iText/pathways/html/chapter12/ch12-1.html (294 words)

	Saints F
		Francis Ferdinand de Capillas @ Catholic Community Forum
		Francis of Assisi @ Saint Francis of Assisi Parish
		Francis of Assisi @ Capuchin Province of Mid-America
	www.shc.edu /theolibrary/saintsf.htm (321 words)

	Alternative views on alternative medicines
		Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were assassinated on June 28th, 1914, while riding in the motorcade through the streets of Sarajevo.
		Archduke’s breakfast helper is traditional herbal seasoning served according to a legend at the table of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand (or Franz Ferdinand), heir apparent to his great-uncle, Emperor Francis Josef.
		The legend tells, that when Ferdinand and his wife Sophie visited Sarajevo in June 1914, the seasoning somehow was forgotten.
	floraleads.com /views (490 words)

	Black Hand -=SKYGAZE=- Interesting Facts, The Strange and Unexplained, Mysteries and Secrets
		But shortly after 10 A.M. a bomb was thrown at the open car in which Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, the duchess of Hohenberg, were riding through the streets of Sarajevo.
		In a deposition handed to the military tribunal, Apis confessed to his involvement in the plot leading to Francis Ferdinand's death.
		The Hapsburg heir to the Austro Hungarian throne was joyously greeted by the inhabitants of the provincial capital that Sunday morning, June 28, 1914.
	www.skygaze.com /content/mysteries/BlackHand.shtml (1112 words)

	PlanetPapers - The Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand : Trigger for War
		Franz Ferdinand accepted the invitation of Bosnia's governor, General Oskar Potoirek, to inspect the army maneuvers being held outside Sarajevo.
		Franz Ferdinand, also catching a glimpse of the hurtling package, raised his arm to deflect it away from Sophie.
		Franz Ferdinand was a brave man and disliked the presence of secret service men.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/3241.php (2521 words)

	Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th Bt. - Biography
		Sir Francis, who also held the title Visconde de Monserrate in Portugal, was an artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy and had works in the permanent collections of museums in Liverpool, Manchester, Northampton and Bournemouth.
		He was married seven times: firstly in 1928 to Molly Violet Mappin, from whom he was divorced in 1930; secondly in 1933 to Dorothea Alice Bennett, from whom he was divorced in 1935; thirdly in 1937 to Joan Loraine Case, with whom he had a son, Christopher Wymondham Raynor Herbert (b.
	www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?550130 (137 words)

	970917.txt
		FWD: Re: Re: [THFC] Gerry Francis (4) 3.
		[Fwd: Re: [THFC] FWD: Re: Re: [THFC] Gerry Francis] (2) 14.
		Subject: Re: Gerry Francis Ryan and certain other members of the list seem to feel that as Spurs are not a top of the table club any more we should meekly accept this as the way things are and enjoy whatever scraps we manage to grab from the "better" clubs.
	www.clubi.ie /grizmond/spurs-list/archives/1997/9709Sep/970917.txt (11642 words)

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