Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este
Robert Habsburg- Lorraine, Robert of Austria - Este ( born February 8, 1915 Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna; born as Robert Karl Ludwig Maximilian Michael Maria Anton Franz Ferdinand Joseph Otto Hubert Georg Pius; † 7 February 1996 in Basel, Switzerland Johannes Marcus d' Aviano, Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia and Duke d' Este ) was a banker, legitimist functionary and publicist. He was the third child of Emperor Karl I of Austria and Empress Zita.
Life
Robert was the second son of eight children of the last Austrian emperor and empress and born as Archduke of Austria. After the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria -Este in 1914, the name Austria -Este was passed on to his great-nephew Robert. After dissolution of the Dual Monarchy of Austria - Hungary at the end of World War Robert lived from Austria -Este November 11, 1918 to 23 March 1919 - before the departure of the former imperial family facing the threat of incarceration of his father - with his parents in Eckartsau Castle in Lower Austria. From 1919 to 1921 Robert was living with his parents in exile in Switzerland, later in Madeira and in Spain.
On December 29, 1953 Robert Habsburg married in Bourg -en- Bresse Margherita of Savoy -Aosta ( born April 7, 1930 in Naples ), daughter of Amadeus, 3rd Duke of Aosta, Viceroy of Abyssinia, and his wife Anne Marie Hélène d ' Orléans from the house of Guise. The marriage produced five children (as well as sixteen grandchildren) emerged:
- Maria Beatrice Anna Felicitas Zita Charlotte Adelheid Christina Elisabeth Gennara (* 1954) ∞ 1980 Riprand Maria Franz Graf von Arco- Zinneberg, great-grandson of King Ludwig III. of Bavaria
- Lorenz Otto Carl Amadeus Thadeus Maria Pius Andreas Marcus d' Aviano (* 1955), since 1995 Prince of Belgium ∞ 1984 Princess Astrid of Belgium ( b. 1962 )
- Gerhard Anton Marcus d' Aviano Thaddeus Maria Umberto Otto Carl Amadeus ( b. 1957 ) Anton Karl Ludwig Georg Felix Marcus d' Aviano ( b. 1976 )
Robert Habsburg- Lothringen is situated in the family vault of the Habsburgs buried in Switzerland in the Loreto chapel of the monastery Muri.