Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
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Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria (17 December 1802 – 8 March 1878) was father of two emperors (Austria and Mexico) and the grandfather of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, whose assassination helped precipitate the start of World War I.
He was born in Vienna, the second son of Emperor Francis II and his wife Maria Theresa of the Two Sicilies.
On 4 November 1824 in Vienna he married Sophie of Bavaria, a daughter of Maximilian I of Bavaria and his second wife Karoline of Baden. Franz Karl was an unambitious and generally ineffectual man, although he was a member of the Council that ruled in the stead of his mentally retarded brother Emperor Ferdinand from 1835 to 1848. At the urging of his wife, he renounced his claims to the throne at the time of his brother's abdication in December 1848, allowing their eldest son Franz Joseph to take the throne. Archduke Franz Karl died in Vienna in 1878, six years after the death of his wife.
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| Reference style | His Imperial and Royal Highness |
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| Spoken style | Your Imperial and Royal Highness |
| Alternative style | Sir |
With Sophie of Bavaria, Franz Karl had six children:
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| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
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| Franz Joseph | 18 August 1830 | 21 November 1916 | married his first cousin Elisabeth of Bavaria and had issue |
| Maximilian | 6 July 1832 | 19 June 1867, later Emperor of Mexico | married Charlotte, Princess of Belgium, no issue |
| Karl Ludwig | 30 July 1833 | 19 May 1896 | married 1) his first cousin Margarethe of Saxony (1840-1858) from 1856 to 1858, no issue, married 2) to Maria Annunziata of the Two-Sicilies (1843-1871) from 1862 to 1871, had issue (three sons and one daughter) and married 3) to Maria Theresia of Portugal (1855-1944), from 1873 to 1899, had issue (two daughters) |
| Maria Anna Karolina | 27 October 1835 | 5 February 1840 | died in childhood, no issue |
| Stillborn son | 24 October 1840 | 24 October 1840 | |
| Ludwig Viktor | 15 May 1842 | 18 January 1919 | was a gay, died unmarried, no issue |
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