Archduke Leopold Franz | |||||
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Head of the House of Habsburg-Tuscany | |||||
Reign | 21 January 1984 - 18 June 1993 | ||||
Predecessor | Archduke Gottfried | ||||
Successor | Archduke Sigismund | ||||
Born |
Schloss Leutstetten, Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany |
25 October 1942 ||||
Spouse |
Princess Laetitia d'Arenberg (m. 1965; div. 1981) Marta Perez Valverde (m. 1993; div. 1998) |
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Issue |
Archduke Sigismund, Grand Duke of Tuscany Archduke Guntram |
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House | Habsburg-Lorraine | ||||
Father | Archduke Gottfried of Austria | ||||
Mother | Princess Dorothea of Bavaria |
Full name | |
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German: Leopold Franz Peter Ferdinand Maria Joseph Gottfried Georg Karl Otto Rudolf Michael |
Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria (German: Leopold Franz Peter Ferdinand Maria Joseph Gottfried Georg Karl Otto Rudolf Michael, Erzherzog von Österreich, Prinz von Toskana) (born 25 October 1942 at Schloss Leutstetten in Starnberg, Bavaria, Nazi Germany) was a member of the Tuscan line of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and Archduke and Prince of Austria, Prince of Hungary, Bohemia, and Tuscany by birth. Leopold Franz was the titular Grand Duke of Tuscany from 21 January 1984 to 18 June 1993.
Leopold Franz was the third eldest child and only son of Archduke Gottfried of Austria and his wife Princess Dorothea of Bavaria.
Leopold Franz married Laetitia de Belzunce d'Arenberg, eldest child and only daughter of Henri de Belzunce, marquis de Belzunce, a French nobleman, and his wife Marie-Thérèse de la Poëze d'Harambure, civilly on 19 June 1965 in St. Gilgen and religiously on 28 July 1965 in Menetou-Salon. Leopold Franz and Laetitia had two sons and three grandchildren together:
Leopold Franz and Laetitia divorced on 21 May 1981. He married for a second time on 18 June 1993 to Marta Perez Valverde, a Salvadoran-born Viennese psychoanalyst, thereby renouncing his rights to the titular Grand Ducal throne of Tuscany in favor of his elder son Sigismund, the current head of the House of Habsburg-Tuscany. Leopold Franz and Marta divorced in 1998.