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Sep 1, 2012 · Archduchess Sophie of Austria - YouTube. KaiserinFrederick. 5.23K subscribers. Subscribed. 32. 11K views 11 years ago. Archduchess Sophie of Austria (5 March 1855 -- 29 May 1857)...
She was a Bavarian princess who married an Austrian noble then a revolution against her brother-in-law (the ruler of the Austrian Empire) happened she took a...
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Franz Karl was convinced to give up his rights to the Austrian throne, and therefore it was their son Franz Joseph who became the next Emperor with Sophie holding power behind the scenes. At the time Sophie was known as ‘the only man at court’ hinting at the great power she held over her husband and son. In 1854, Franz Joseph was married ...
Sophie’s hour came in 1848, when the ailing emperor Ferdinand abdicated in favour of his nephew, the 18-year-old Franz Joseph, in Olmütz, where the imperial family had taken refuge from the turmoil of the revolution. While Sophie did not become empress as she had once hoped, since her husband Franz Karl waived his claim to the throne, she ...
Sophie Friederike Dorothea Maria Josepha. House. Habsburg-Lorraine. Father. Franz Joseph I of Austria. Mother. Elisabeth in Bavaria. Archduchess Sophie of Austria (5 March 1855 – 29 May 1857) was the first child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. She died aged two.
Daughter of the King of Bavaria, Princess Sophie was married for political reasons to Archduke Franz Karl, second son of Emperor Franz, in 1824. She soon recognized the personal weaknesses of the men who now surrounded her, and although Franz enjoyed the image of the ‘good Emperor’, he was no longer young. Franz’s son and heir Ferdinand ...
