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  2. Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (German: (Erzherzog) Josef Karl (Ludwig) von Österreich, Hungarian: Habsburg–Lotaringiai József Károly (Lajos) főherceg; 2 March 1833 – 13 June 1905) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

  3. Charles Joseph ( German: Karl Joseph) (7 August 1649 – 27 January 1664) was an Archduke of Austria and Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (1662–64). He was also the Bishop of Olmütz, and Breslau, Passau . Life. Charles Joseph was born on 7 August 1649, in Vienna to parents Ferdinand III and Maria Leopoldine.

  4. Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria ( German: (Erzherzog) Josef Karl (Ludwig) von Österreich, Hungarian: Habsburg–Lotaringiai József Károly (Lajos) főherceg; 2 March 1833 – 13 June 1905) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

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    Born on the 17th of August 1887 in Persenbeug Castle, Lower Austria, Archduke Karl Franz Joseph Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Marie of Habsburg-Lorraine was the great-nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, who ruled between 1848 and 1916. Karl had one younger brother named Maximilian, and both boys were raised in a home that was a fountain of scan...

    The January 1889 Mayerling incidentaltered history forever. Crown Prince Rudolph, the only surviving son of Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife Elisabeth of Bavaria, known as Sisi, carried out a murder-suicide whilst staying at his hunting lodge just outside Vienna. He killed his lover, Mary Vetsera, and then himself, to the horror of everyone. The...

    Emperor Franz Joseph took a keen interest in his great-nephew and the succession. He selected Karl’s bride for him. Karl and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma met as children, but they had not seen one another for over a decade. Fortunately, they got on well as adults and married on the 21st of October 1911 at her parent's summer house in Schwarzau. T...

    The 1917 Russian Revolution stunned him. As the end of the war drew closer, Karl was faced with an economy in trouble and the likelihood that Hungary, Bohemia, Galicia, Lodomeria, and other parts of his empire would formally seek their independence. The allies promoted this as a favourable option in the newly forged Europe. By the autumn of 1918, t...

    Karl succeeded Franz Joseph I on the 21st of November, 1916. He bore the title His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary and Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia.Although he saw himself as a king with integrity and cared about his people, Karl was poorly prepared for the business of ruling. He soon earned the...

    The Habsburgs had no desire to surrender the empire to ministers, but they had no choice. They relocated from Vienna to rural Lower Austria and then, in late March 1919, to their exile in Switzerland with Archduke Maximilian and his family. On the border between Austria and Switzerland, Karl revoked the 11th and 13th November 1918 declarations and ...

    Whilst living on Madeira, Karl caught either pneumonia or Spanish influenza, which then swept across Europe. He died on the 1st of April 1922, aged just 35, and he was laid to rest near Funchal, except for his heart, which was interred at the Muri Abbey in Switzerland. Shortly after his death, Zita gave birth to their last child, Elisabeth. Under Z...

  5. The unprepossessing and mentally somewhat underendowed Archduke Franz Karl was always overshadowed by his wife Sophie. The only reason he has not disappeared entirely into the shadows of history is that he was the father of Emperor Franz Joseph.

  6. Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria (17 December 1802 – 8 March 1878) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. 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 ...

  7. Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria. primary name: primary name: Charles Joseph. other name: other name: (Archduke) Austria. other name: other name: Carl Joseph. other name: other name: Karl Joseph. Details. individual; royal/imperial; German; Male. Life dates. 1649-1664. Biography.

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