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Charles II Francis of Austria ( German: Karl II. Franz von Innerösterreich) (3 June 1540 – 10 July 1590) was an Archduke of Austria and a ruler of Inner Austria ( Styria, Carniola, Carinthia and Gorizia) from 1564. He was a member of the House of Habsburg .
Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Laurentius of Austria, Duke of Teschen (German: Erzherzog Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz von Österreich, Herzog von Teschen; 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of Emperor Leopold II and his wife, Maria Luisa of Spain.
Archduke of Austria, from 1564 to his death in 1590 ruler of Inner Austria. Born in Vienna on 3 June 1540. Died in Graz on 10 July 1590. At the partition of the Habsburg domains under the sons of Emperor Ferdinand I the youngest son Charles was assigned the group of lands making up Inner Austria.
Charles II as ruler of Inner Austria. As ruler over a dominion within the Habsburg Monarchy, Charles was confronted with the problems that were to determine the dynasty’s policies in the Early Modern age: the threat of Ottoman expansion and sectarian tensions.
Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria (1540–1590) Charles was the third son and twelfth of a total of fifteen children of Emperor Ferdinand I. In contrast to his eldest brother Maximilian II, he was regarded as a faithful follower of Catholicism, a circumstance which, among other things, influenced his father’s decision to once again divide ...
As the ruler of Inner Austria he founded his own branch of the House of Habsburg, which was to become the main line of the dynasty in the following generation. Charles’s powerful Spanish relatives played a considerable role in his search for a suitable wife.
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Archduke Charles of Austria most commonly refers to Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (1771–1847). The title may also refer to: Archduke Carl Christian of Austria (born 1954)
