Archduke Anton of Austria

Archduke Anton
Archduke of Austria
Prince of Tuscany

The Archduke on his wedding day
Born (1901-03-20)20 March 1901
Vienna, Empire of Austria
Died 22 October 1987(1987-10-22) (aged 86)
Salzburg, State of Salzburg, Republic of Austria
Burial Cemetery on the Mondsee
Spouse Princess Ileana of Romania
(m. 1931 - div. 1954)
Issue Archduke Stefan
Archduchess Maria Ileana
Archduchess Alexandra
Archduke Dominic
Archduchess Maria Magdalena
Archduchess Elisabeth
House Habsburg-Tuscany
Father Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria
Mother Infanta Blanca of Spain
Religion Roman Catholic

Archduke Anton of Austria (Anton Maria Franz Leopold Blanka Karl Joseph Ignaz Raphael Michael Margareta Nicetas von Habsburg-Lorraine; Vienna, 20 March 1901 – Salzburg, 22 October 1987) was an Archduke of Austria and Prince of Tuscany. He was the seventh of ten children born to Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany, and Infanta Blanca of Spain, daughter of Carlos, Duke of Madrid.

Marriage and issue

After being introduced by King Carol II of Romania, he and Princess Ileana of Romania (1909-1991) were married in Sinaia on 26 July 1931.

They had the following children:

World War II and later life

In the Second World War, he served until late 1944 in the German Wehrmacht as a pilot. After leaving the military, he moved to Bran, where he and his family lived in the Bran Castle. After the coup d'état, and the end of Romania's alliance with Germany on 23 August 1944, the family and their servants were in danger of being interned or thrown out of the country, as German citizens. It was only when King Michael I abdicated on 30 December 1947 and was forced to leave the country that Archduke Anton's family also went into exile. The family spent some time in Switzerland, then in Argentina, then lived in the early 1950s in the United States.

The marriage ended in divorce, made official on 29 May 1954. While Ileana became a nun, Archduke Anton moved to Austria, where he lived until his death in Emmerberg and in St. Lorenz am Mondsee in the Villa Minola. He died on 22 October 1987 at the age of 86. He was buried at the cemetery on the Mondsee.

Further reading

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ Almanach de Gotha, Vol. I, Part 1, 190th Edition, London, 2013, p.65.
  2. ↑ "Base de données généalogiques Roglo". Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  3. ↑ Almanach de Gotha, Vol. I, Part 1, 190th Edition, London, 2013, p.66.
  4. ↑ Almanach de Gotha, Vol. I, Part 1, 190th Edition, London, 2013, pp. 66-67.
  5. ↑ Almanach de Gotha, Vol. I, Part 1, 190th Edition, London, 2013, p.67.
  6. ↑ "Base de données généalogiques Roglo". Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  7. ↑ Almanach de Gotha, Vol. I, Part 1, 190th Edition, London, 2013, p. 67.
  8. ↑ "Base de données généalogiques Roglo". Retrieved 8 June 2016.
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