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Archduchess Elisabeth, nicknamed 'Erzsi', was born at Schloss Laxenburg on 2 September 1883 to Crown Prince Rudolf and Stéphanie, daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium. She was named after her grandmothers, Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Queen Marie Henriette of Belgium. Erzsi was Franz Joseph's only grandchild through his son.
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Sep 2, 2015 · The only child of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria was an incredibly strong-willed – and unpredictable – woman, yet her life plays out like a microcosm for the tides of radical change that washed across Central Europe in the first half of the 20th Century.
Elisabeth Marie Facts. 1. The Lone Heir. Born in 1883 as Elisabeth Marie Henriette Stephanie Gisela, the little Archduchess was the only child of Rudolf, the Crown Prince of Austria, and his wife, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium. But even though Elisabeth Marie entered life in the lap of luxury, she also entered a world of drama.
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Archduchess Elisabeth Marie Henriette Stephanie Gisela of Austria was the only child of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium. Her father was the son and heir apparent of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, and her mother was a daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium. She was known to her family as "Erzsi", a diminutive of her name in Hungarian. Later nicknamed The ...
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie, known in the family as Erzsi, the diminutive of her name in Hungarian, was the only child of Rudolf and Stephanie. After Rudolf’s death she became the ward of her grandfather Emperor Franz Joseph, who idolized her. She herself began to heroize her late father, whose unconventional character she had inherited ...
Maria Elisabeth, Archduchess of Austria. Copperplate engraving, mid 18th century As the daughter of an emperor, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth initially represented dynastic capital for a politically profitable marriage – but as the unmarried sister of an emperor, a very different prospect opened up for her: a politically influential office.