Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria

Joseph Franz Leopold Anton Ignatius Maria, Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary (March 28, 1895, Brünn, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (now Brno, in the Czech Republic).^[1] – September 25, 1957, Carcavelos, Portugal^[1]) He was the eldest son of Archduke Joseph August of Austria and Princess Auguste Maria of Bavaria. As his father was the last Palatine of Hungary and was briefly considered a possible King of Hungary in 1919–1920, Josef Franz was a potential crown prince of Hungary.

He was born during the reign of his maternal great-grandfather Franz Joseph I of Austria.

Marriage and issue

On October 4, 1924, Archduke Joseph Franz married Princess Anna of Saxony, a daughter of Friedrich August III of Saxony and Archduchess Luise, Princess of Tuscany.^[2] Anna and Joseph Francis had eight children:

• Archduchess Margarethe of Austria (born 17 August 1925; died 3 May 1979) married Alexander Erba-Odescalchi, Prince of Monteleone, and has issue;
  • Sybilla Erba-Odescalchi, Princess of Monteleone (born 7 August 1945) married Samir Fawzi Beshhai Bekkeit and has issue;
    • Augustin Beshhai-Bekkeit (born 17 March 1968)
    • Helene Beshhai-Bekkeit (born 21 September 1969)
    • Eleonore Beshhai-Bekkeit (born 19 March 1974)
• Archduchess Ilona of Austria (born 20 April 1927) married Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg
• Archduchess Anna-Theresia Gabriella of Austria (born 19 April 1928; died 28 November 1984)
• Archduke Joseph Arpád of Austria (born 8 February 1933)
• Archduke István Dominik Anton Umberto of Austria (born 1 July 1934)
• Archduchess Maria Kynga Beatrix of Austria (born 27 August 1938)
• Archduke Géza Ladislaus of Austria (born 14 November 1940)
• Archduke Michael Koloman of Austria (born 5 May 1942), married Princess Christiana of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (born 1940)

Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria died on 25 September 1957 in Carcavelos, Portugal

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