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Elisabeth (born Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria; 24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898), nicknamed Sisi or Sissi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.
- 17 September 1898, Imperial Crypt
- Wittelsbach
Franz Joseph (born August 18, 1830, Schloss Schönbrunn, near Vienna, Austria—died November 21, 1916, Schloss Schönbrunn) was the emperor of Austria (1848–1916) and king of Hungary (1867–1916), who divided his empire into the Dual Monarchy, in which Austria and Hungary coexisted as equal partners.
Oct 4, 2022 · Elisabeth was not as smitten with the 23-year-old Franz Joseph, whom she thought dull, humourless, and conservative. When they married eight months later, in April 1854, the teen bride was seen sobbing in her carriage during the procession through Vienna.
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Sep 11, 2023 · The young Sissi wed Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria at the age of 16, a marriage that thrust her into formal Habsburg court life, for which she was unprepared and found unpleasant. Eccentric and educated in the values of creativity and adventure, the dullness of royal life was no match for Sissi.
Dec 26, 2020 · December 26, 2020. Reading Time: 4 minutes. I never had much time for the Empress Elizabeth. She was just 16 when she married the Habsburg emperor Franz Joseph, in Vienna in 1854, and from the very first she seemed to me willful, self-obsessed, and unready for the role she had taken on.
Sophie gave her son freedom of choice - but within strict limits: Franz Joseph was to choose his future wife from among the daughters and nieces of Sophie's sisters. After Franz Joseph was unsuccessful at the royal courts of Dresden and Berlin, he finally chose his cousin Elisabeth.
Stephan Gruber. Whenever ‘the Habsburgs’ are mentioned in public, the image that impresses itself on most people’s minds is that of the happily married imperial couple Franz Joseph and Elisabeth.
