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Archduke Leopold Johann of Austria (13 April 1716 – 4 November 1716), was the last-born male descendant from the House of Habsburg. The only son and long-hoped heir of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, with his and his father's death in 1740, the Habsburg male line died out completely, being succeeded by the House of Habsburg-Lorraine (originated by the marriage of Leopold Johann's sister ...
Born in Florence on 20 January 1782, Archduke Johann was the son of Peter Leopold, grand duke of Tuscany (later, as Leopold II, Emperor of Austria from 1790–1792) and Maria Ludovica of Spain from the House of Bourbon. He was the thirteenth child to be born to this prolific couple, who would go on to have a total of sixteen children.
Biography. John was born in Florence, the thirteenth child of the Habsburg Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany (Archduke of Austria and later Emperor) and Maria Louisa of Spain. He was baptized with the name of John Baptist Joseph Fabian Sebastian, [1] after the patron saint of the Tuscan capital. In 1790, Leopold succeeded his brother Joseph II as ...
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The second decade of the nineteenth century saw Archduke Johann, who was a brother of Emperor Franz, playing an important part in the war of liberation against Napoleon waged by the Tyroleans under Andreas Hofer. However, on account of his membership of the Alpenbund, a Tyrolean resistance movement that saw the emperor and Metternich as a pair ...
When Leopold Johann Archduke of Austria was born on 13 April 1716, in Vienna, Austria, his father, Kaiser Karl VI. Franz Joseph Wenzel Balthasar Johann Anton Ignaz von Österreich ,römisch-deutscher Kaiser und Erzherzog von Österreich, was 30 and his mother, Elisabeth Isabella Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, was 24.
Leopold Ferdinand as a child, by Georg Decker. In 1892 and 1893 Leopold accompanied Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on a sea voyage through the Suez Canal and on to India and Australia. The relationship between the two archdukes was extremely bad and their permanent attempts to outdo and humiliate the other one led the Emperor Franz Joseph ...
The relationship between Archduke Johann and Anna Plochl (1804–1885), the daughter of the postmaster of the town of Aussee in the Styrian Salzkammergut, began in 1819. Anna was then just fifteen, Johann twenty years her senior. The relationship that developed proved to be astonishingly resilient, given that circumstances were against the couple. Affairs between members of the
