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  1. He was the father of two emperors: Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico. Through his third son Karl Ludwig, he was 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.

  2. Although he was son, brother and father to three successive Austrian emperors, he – allegedly on account of his ‘lesser gifts’ – hardly set foot in the field of politics at all. On the death of his father Emperor Franz II (I), Franz Karl was second in line to the throne after his brother Ferdinand.

  3. The political objective of the assassination was to free Bosnia and Herzegovina of Austria-Hungarian rule and establish a common South Slav ("Yugoslav") state. The assassination precipitated the July Crisis which led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia and the start of World War I .

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  5. Franz was the father of two emperors: Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico. Through his third son Karl Ludwig, he was the grandfather of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria . Franz Ferdinand's assassination sparked the hostilities that led to the outbreak of World War I .

  6. Habsburgs. Franz Karl. Archduke of Austria (non-ruling member of the dynasty) Born 7 December 1802 in Vienna. Died 8 March 1878 in Vienna. The son of Emperor Franz II (I) and younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand I, he was a member of the Privy State Conference that ran the government for his imperial brother from 1836 to1848.

  7. Born on 6 July 1832 at Schönbrunn palace, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, as he was baptized, was the second son of Archduke Franz Karl and Archduchess Sophie. The young archduke displayed a certain degree of artistic talent at an early age.

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