Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria

Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska
Born(1831-01-17)17 January 1831
Buda, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire
Died14 February 1903(1903-02-14) (aged 72)
Palais Erzherzog Albrecht, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Burial
Spouse
(m. 1846; died 1849)
(m. 1854; died 1874)
Issue
Names
Elisabeth Franziska Maria
HouseHabsburg-Lorraine
FatherArchduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary
MotherDuchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska Maria of Austria (17 January 1831 – 14 February 1903) was born in Ofen (Buda), Hungary. She was 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 first cousin once removed Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este (1821–1849), by whom she had one daughter:

Second marriage

Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska and her children: Friedrich (with his wife Isabella), Maria Christina and Maria Theresia, 1878
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, 1860s

Her second marriage, on 18 April 1854, in Vienna, was to her first cousin Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria (1818–1874),[1] by whom she had six children:

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

References

  1. ^ "Burke's Peerage". burkespeerage.com. Retrieved 11 January 2023.

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