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Nov 22, 2013 · English: Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868–1914) pastel painting (pre-1910) Original publication: Painting of Sophie, pre-1910, hanging in a museum in Artstetten Castle Immediate source: I took a photograph of a painting hanging in the Artstetten Castle Museum
I was reading Borijove Jevtic's account of the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. Jevtic is a co-conspirator of the killer Gavrilo Princip. Both men are a part of the seven assassins from the Black Hand group who aimed to kill off Franz Ferdinand.
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the nationalist organization Young Bosnia. Motivated by the desire to achieve South Slavic independence from Austro-Hungarian rule, Gavrilo, along with other ...
Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg. Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg. (1868-1914) Born in Stuttgart on March 1st. Wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir-apparent to the Austro-Hungarian empire. Shot and killed along with her husband in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. Countess (Gräfin) Sophie Chotek von Chotkova und Wognin was born into a Czech family of ...
Gavrilo Princip ( Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, pronounced [ɡǎʋrilo prǐntsip]; 25 July 1894 – 28 April 1918) was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. The killing of the ...
Jan 25, 2020 · Sophie of Hohenberg was born on 24 July 1901 at Konopiště as the daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his morganatic wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. Her parents’ relationship had had quite a rocky start as her mother, a born Countess Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin, was considered too low-born for the heir presumptive to the ...
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1 March 1868 – 28 June 1914) was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.. Biography []. Sophie was born in Stuttgart as the fourth daughter of Count Bohuslav Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin, a Bohemian aristocrat, Ambassador and a member of the House of Chotek, and his wife Countess Wilhelmine Kinsky von Wchinitz ...
