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Archduke Franz Karl Salvator of Austria ( German: Erzherzog Franz Karl Salvator Marie Joseph Ignaz von Österreich-Toskana) (17 February 1893 in Schloss Lichtenegg, Wels, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary – 10 December 1918, Wallsee-Sindelburg, Lower Austria, Austria) was a member of the Tuscan line of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and Archduke of ...
Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria (21 August 1866 – 20 April 1939) was the son of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Archduchess Marie Valerie in 1890, though, due to Marie Valerie's death in 1924, remarried in 1934 to Baroness Melanie von Riesenfels.
Archduke Franz Karl did not perform any kind of public function, but occasionally called attention to himself with his eccentricities. He died in 1878, six years after his wife. He was the last Habsburg to undergo separate interment of body, entrails and heart.
Archduke Franz Karl was one of a considerable number of Habsburgs who did not have a talent for the dynasty’s claims to power or, more particularly, for the political and social activities necessary for pressing these claims successfully.
Early life and career. He was an Austrian Archduke, a son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and second wife Marie Antoinette of Tuscany. He was a Feldmarschall-Leutnant of the Imperial ( k.u.k.) Austro-Hungarian Army.
May 29, 2024 · Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria (21 August 1866 – 20 April 1939) was the son of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Archduchess Marie Valerie in 1890, though, due to Marie Valerie's death in 1924, remarried in 1934 to Baroness Melani
The monument honours the first man to hand Napoleon a significant military defeat: Archduke Karl. Bronze design by Anton Dominik Fernkorn; Depicts the victorious Archduke during the Battle of Aspern-Essling in 1809; Unveiled in 1860 in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph; Book a themed guided tour* of Vienna; See also: Schwarzenberg monument
