Archduchess Franziska of Austria | |
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Born |
Teplice |
21 June 1897
Died | 12 July 1989 Salzburg |
(aged 92)
Spouse | Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria |
Issue | Archduke Ferdinand Archduke Heinrich Karl |
House | Hohenlohe-Waldenburg |
Father | Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst |
Mother | Countess Franziska of Schönborn-Buchheim |
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (Franziska Maria Anna; 21 June 1897 – 12 July 1989) was the wife of Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria.
The daughter of Austrian statesman Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst and his wife, Countess Franziska of Schönborn-Buchheim, Franziska was born in Teplice, Austria-Hungary, into the Schillingsfürst cadet branch of the princely House of Hohenlohe.
On 27 November 1917 at Laxenburg, near Vienna, she married Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria, the second son of Archduke Otto of Austria and Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony. Her brother-in-law was Archduke Karl Franz of Austria, the last Emperor of Austria.
The couple had two sons:
Franziska also used the name Franziska von Ratibor und Corvey and, while living in Starnberg near Munich she used the name "Countess Franziska von Wernberg". She died in Salzburg, Austria, on 12 July 1989, aged 92.