Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria
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Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska | |||||
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Born | Buda, Kingdom of Hungary | 17 January 1831||||
Died | 14 February 1903 Albertina, Austria-Hungary | (aged 72)||||
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Spouse | Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria | ||||
Issue | Maria Theresia, Queen of Bavaria Archduke Franz Joseph Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen Maria Cristina, Queen of Spain Archduke Charles Stephen Archduke Eugen Archduchess Maria Eleonora | ||||
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House | Habsburg-Lorraine | ||||
Father | Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary | ||||
Mother | Duchess Maria Dorothea von Württemberg | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska Maria of Austria (17 January 1831 – 14 February 1903) was born in Ofen (Buda), Hungary, the daughter of Palatine Joseph of Hungary (1776–1847) and his third wife Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (1797–1855).
First marriage[]
Her first marriage, on 4 October 1847 in Vienna, was to her second cousin Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este (1821–1849), by whom she had one daughter:
- Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria-Este (1849–1919), wife of King Ludwig III of Bavaria and Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England and Scotland.
Second marriage[]
Her second marriage, on 18 April 1854, in Vienna, was to her first cousin Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria (1818–1874) by whom she had six children:
- Archduke Franz Joseph of Austria (1855–1855)
- Archduke Friedrich of Austria, Duke of Teschen (1856–1936)
- Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1858–1929), Queen of Spain, wife of King Alfonso XII of Spain
- Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria (1860–1933)
- Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863–1954)
- Archduchess Maria Eleonora of Austria (1864–1864)
Elisabeth died at her son's palais, the Albertina, Vienna, of pneumonia. She is buried in Baden bei Wien, where there is a street named after her.
Ancestry[]
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- Austrian princesses
- House of Habsburg-Lorraine
- Austria-Este
- 1831 births
- 1903 deaths
- Modenese princesses
- Hungarian Roman Catholics
- Nobility from Budapest
- Deaths from pneumonia