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Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
Emperor + Prince + Knight
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Born
Dec 17, 1802
Hometown
Vienna
Died
Mar 8, 1878
Death Place
Vienna
Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria from the House of Habsburg was father of two emperors as well as the grandfather of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination sparked the hostilities that led to the outbreak of World War I, and the… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1802
Birth
Born on December 17, 1802.
TWENTIES
1824
21 Years Old
On 4 November 1824 in Vienna he married Princess Sophie of Bavaria from the House of Wittelsbach, a daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria by his second wife Caroline of Baden.
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THIRTIES
1835
32 Years Old
Franz Karl was an unambitious and generally ineffectual man, although he was together with his uncle Archduke Louis a member of the Geheime Staatskonferenz council, which after the death of Emperor Francis I ruled the Austrian Empire in the stead of his mentally retarded brother Ferdinand from 1835 to 1848.
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FORTIES
1848
45 Years Old
His wife Sophie had already given up her ambitions, when she urged Franz Karl to renounce his claims to the throne at the time of his brother's abdication on 2 December 1848, allowing their eldest son Franz Joseph I to take the throne.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1878
75 Years Old
Archduke Franz Karl died in Vienna in 1878, six years after the death of his wife.
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