Franz Karl, Archduke of Austria
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| Archduke of Austria | |
Franz Karl at age 37, 1839
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17 December 1802 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 8 March 1878 (aged 75) Vienna |
| Burial | Imperial Crypt |
| Spouse | Princess Sophie of Bavaria |
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Franz Joseph I of Austria Maximilian I of Mexico Archduke Karl Ludwig Archduchess Maria Anna Archduke Ludwig Viktor |
| House | Habsburg-Lorraine |
| Father | Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor |
| Mother | Princess Maria Theresa the Two Sicilies |
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Monarchical styles of Archduke Franz Carl of Austria |
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| Reference style | His Imperial and Royal Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Imperial and Royal Highness |
| Alternative style | Sir |
Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria (17 December 1802 – 8 March 1878) from the House of Habsburg was father of two emperors (Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico) as well as the grandfather of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination sparked the hostilities that led to the outbreak of World War I, and the great-grandfather of the last Habsburg emperor Karl I.
Franz Karl was born in Vienna, the third son of Emperor Francis II (I) by his second marriage with Princess Maria Theresa from the House of Bourbon, daughter of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Carolina of Habsburg-Lorraine. On 4 November 1824 in Vienna he married Princess Sophie of Bavaria from the House of Wittelsbach, a daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria by his second wife Caroline of Baden (Sophie's paternal half-sister, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria was by this time Franz Karl's stepmother, having married his thrice-widowed father in 1816.) The Wittelsbachs condoned the unappealing manners of Sophie's husband in consideration of the incapability of his elder brother Ferdinand and Sophie's chance to become Austrian Empress.
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