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- Archduke Charles (born Sept. 5, 1771, Florence [Italy]—died April 30, 1847, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian archduke, field marshal, army reformer, and military theoretician who was one of the few Allied commanders capable of defeating the French generals of the Napoleonic period.
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In 1559 and again from 1564 to 1568, there were negotiations for a marriage between Charles and Elizabeth I of England. Emperor Ferdinand I expected Elizabeth to promise in the proposed marriage treaty that Charles, as her widower, would succeed her if she died childless.
NameBirthDeathNotesArchduke FerdinandJudenburg, 15 July 1572Judenburg, 3 August 1572Died in infancy.Graz, 16 August 1573Warsaw, 10 February 1598Married on 31 May 1592 to Sigismund III ...Graz, 10 November 1574Hall in Tirol, Tyrol, 6 April 1621Married on 6 August 1595 to Sigismund ...Graz, 4 January 1576Graz, 29 June 1599Died unmarried.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.
Negotiations were initiated for a marriage between him and Elisabeth I of England. In 1559 the Spanish court sent him to England, where he soon realized that his mission had no chance of success, as the Virgin Queen was not disposed to marry, and was most especially unlikely to.
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, who was destined for greatness by his father, Emperor Ferdinand I—e.g. he was negotiated as a potential husband for Elizabeth I of England and her rival Mary Stuart—finally had to content himself with a Bavarian princess and the regency of Inner Austria.
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. Biography
