Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria
Archduke Karl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria ( born July 30, 1833 in Vienna Schönbrunn, † May 19, 1896 ) was a brother of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria.
Life
Karl Ludwig was the third son of Archduke Franz Karl. He was a younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I. and father of the heir apparent Franz Ferdinand and Archduke Otto Franz Joseph, the father of Emperor Karl I
Karl Ludwig's highest political function was that of a Governor in Tirol. This office he was already after six years on again. He was interested more in art than politics and the military. He was protector of several artists' associations and were like balls and fundraisers.
His mother, Archduchess Sophie Karl Ludwig raised a strict Catholic and also sought his three wives from. He suffered increasingly from religious mania and blessed passers out of the coach out.
After the death of Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889, he was heir to the Austria -Hungarian Empire. Karl Ludwig died of a disease which he had contracted from contaminated water from the Jordan on a trip to Egypt and Palestine. He attended his son Franz Ferdinand, who cured his tuberculosis in Cairo.
Marriages and descendants
First Marriage, 1856: Margaret of Saxony ( 1840-1858 ), daughter of John I, King of Saxony
Second Marriage, 1862: Maria Annunziata ( 1842-1871 ), daughter of Ferdinand II, King of the Two Sicilies
- Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914) ∞ 1900 Countess Sophie Josephine Albina, daughter of Count Bohuslaw Chotková - Chotkova and Wognin and his wife, Countess Wilhelmine Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau
- Otto Franz Joseph (1865-1906) ∞ 1886 Princess Maria Josepha, daughter of King George I of Saxony and his wife Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal
- Ferdinand Karl Ludwig (1868-1915), ( Ferdinand Burg ) ∞ 1909 Czuber Berta, daughter of a university professor Emanuel Czuber
- Margarete Sophie (1870-1902) ∞ 1893 Duke Albrecht of Württemberg, son of Duke Philipp of Württemberg and his wife Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria
Third marriage, 1873: Maria Theresa of Portugal ( 1855-1944 ), daughter of Michael I, King of Portugal.
- Maria Annunziata (1876-1961), abbess in Prague
- Elisabeth Amalie (1878-1960) ∞ 1903 Prince Alois, son Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein and his wife Princess Henriette of Liechtenstein
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Kaiser Franz Stephan (1708-1765) ∞ 1736 Maria Theresia (1717-1780)
King Charles III. from Spain (1716-1788) ∞ 1738 Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724-1760)
King Charles III. from Spain (1716-1788) ∞ 1738 Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724-1760)
Kaiser Franz Stephan (1708-1765) ∞ 1736 Maria Theresia (1717-1780)
Duke Christian III. of Palatinate -Zweibrücken (1674-1735) ∞ 1719 Caroline of Nassau -Saarbrücken (1704-1774)
Joseph Karl von Pfalz- Sulzbach (1694-1729) ∞ 1717 Elisabeth Auguste Sofie von der Pfalz (1693-1728)
Grand Duke Karl Friedrich of Baden (1728-1811) ∞ 1751 Karoline Luise of Hesse- Darmstadt (1723-1783)
Landgraf Louis IX. of Hesse- Darmstadt (1719-1790) ∞ 1741 Henriette Karoline von Pfalz- Zweibrücken (1721-1774)
Emperor Leopold II (1747-1792) ∞ 1765 Maria Ludovica of Spain (1745-1792)
King Ferdinand I. (1751-1825) ∞ 1768 Maria Carolina of Austria (1752-1814)
Friedrich Michael von Pfalz- Birkenfeld (1724-1767) ∞ 1746 Maria Franziska von Pfalz- Sulzbach (1724-1794)
Charles Louis of Baden (1755-1801) ∞ 1774 Amalie of Hesse- Darmstadt (1754-1832)
Emperor Francis II (1768-1835) ∞ 1790 Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (1772-1807)
King Maximilian I Joseph (1756-1825) ∞ 1797 Karoline Friederike Wilhelmine of Baden (1776-1841)
Franz Karl of Austria (1802-1878) ∞ 1824 Sophie Friederike von Bayern (1805-1872)
Karl Ludwig of Austria