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The third son, Ferdinand Karl (1868–1915), caused a stir in 1911 when he was forced to leave the House of Habsburg-Lorraine by Emperor Franz Joseph, having admitted to secretly marrying the commoner Berta Czuber (1879–1979). He subsequently assumed the name Ferdinand Burg.
Secret marriage in Switzerland. In spite of the Emperor declining to give his permission for him to wed a commoner, Archduke Ferdinand Karl married his partner – and had to leave the Habsburg family. In 1902, Archduke Ferdinand Karl, a brother of the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand, made the acquaintance of Bertha Czuber, the daughter of a ...
The first major growth in Habsburg holdings was a result of Maximilian’s arranged marriage to Mary of Burgundy (top right) which, through Mary’s lack of brothers, resulted in Maximilian's heirs inheriting Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Burgundy (Skjelver and Wiesflecker). Maximilian continued the trend of strategic and powerful marriages by having both his son, Philip (top middle), and ...
The Habsburg jaw, as seen in its most extreme with Karl/Charles/Carlos II of Spain, was (at least according to this article by El Pais) not due to excessive inbreeding.
Archduke Karl is regarded as one of the greatest military talents ever produced by the dynasty. However, he was hardly allowed to develop his gifts, as his elder brother, Emperor Franz II (I), jealously saw to it that the popular archduke was never allowed to forget his subordinate place in the family pecking order.
Karl Habsburg (given names: Karl Thomas Robert Maria Franziskus Georg Bahnam; born 11 January 1961) is an Austrian politician and the head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the former royal house of the defunct Austro-Hungarian thrones. As a citizen of the Republic of Austria, his legal name is Karl Habsburg-Lothringen.
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Sigismund Augustus of Poland agreed to marry Ferdinand's daughter Eliza- beth in 1543, as part of a Polish-Habsburg alliance against the Turks and France; the monarch's second union with a Habsburg princess-Elizabeth died in 1545-took place in 1553, four years after a mutual defense pact had been signed between the king and Ferdinand.
