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Karl I, Emperor of Austria (reigned 1916-1918) Unofficial Royalty: Karl I, Emperor of Austria. Karl I, the last Emperor of Austria, was born on August 17, 1887, in Persenbeug Castle in the current Austrian state of Lower Austria. His parents were Archduke Otto Franz of Austria and Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony.
- Franz Joseph I
The fourth longest-reigning European monarch (67 years)...
- Ferdinand I
Ferdinand abdicated the throne in favor of his nephew Franz...
- Franz Joseph I
The Habsburgs are buried near Hofburg Palace in a crypt at a Capuchin church where there is still a cloister. The crypt is in the care of the monks from the cloister. Unlike any of the other burial sites I’ve visited, the church is small and is on a street with traffic, shops, and stores, restaurants, and cafes.
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1 day ago · VIENNA, AUSTRIA—According to a Live Science report, radiocarbon dating and the analysis of DNA samples taken from the remains of two people buried in the same grave with a horse some 1,800 years ...
Jul 21, 2011 · After services at a church in Munich, Habsburg's body was taken to Vienna, where it was buried July 16, 2011, with his ancestors in the imperial crypt in the Austrian capital.
Signature. Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria [a] (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. [2] His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I . Franz Ferdinand was the eldest son of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, the younger brother of ...
May 3, 2024 · Maximilian I (born March 22, 1459, Wiener Neustadt, Austria—died January 12, 1519, Wels) was the archduke of Austria, German king, and Holy Roman emperor (1493–1519) who made his family, the Habsburgs, dominant in 16th-century Europe. He added vast lands to the traditional Austrian holdings, securing the Netherlands by his own marriage ...
The history of the house of Habsburg for the century following the Congress of Vienna is inseparable from that of the Austrian Empire, a bastion of monarchical conservatism that the forces of nationalism—German, Italian, Hungarian, Slav, and Romanian—gradually eroded. The first territorial losses came in 1859, when Austria had to cede ...
