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The third son, Ferdinand Karl (1868–1915), caused a stir in 1911 when he was forced to leave the House of Habsburg-Lorraine by Emperor Franz Joseph, having admitted to secretly marrying the commoner Berta Czuber (1879–1979). He subsequently assumed the name Ferdinand Burg.
karlvonhabsburg .at. Karl von Habsburg (given names: Karl Thomas Robert Maria Franziskus Georg Bahnam; born 11 January 1961) is an Austrian politician and the head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the former royal house of the defunct Austro-Hungarian thrones. As a citizen of the Republic of Austria, his legal name is Karl Habsburg-Lothringen.
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But for royals, to whom intermarriage was often family tradition, generations of marrying a cousin came with consequences. Perhaps the most glaring example is the house of Habsburg, a family of German royals who made up one of the principal dynasties of Europe from the 15th to the 20th century.
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Marriage and divorce. With the Patent on Marriage in 1783, marriage became a State concern. In addition to exchange of wedding vows at church, civil marriage now also existed. ‘What God has joined together, let no man put asunder’ – no man, perhaps, but a court of law. The separation between civil and religious matters has existed since ...
Shy and delicate, Karl was just another child among the massed ranks of his brothers and sisters. A turning point came in the young archduke’s life when his aunt, Marie Christine, began to take an interest in him. A daughter of Maria Theresa, she was married to Albert of Saxony-Teschen, but the marriage had remained childless.
The first major growth in Habsburg holdings was a result of Maximilian’s arranged marriage to Mary of Burgundy (top right) which, through Mary’s lack of brothers, resulted in Maximilian's heirs inheriting Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Burgundy (Skjelver and Wiesflecker).
It was in his diocese that Blessed Karl von Habsburg, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary, died. With today's medicine, Blessed Karl might well have survived the pneumonia that afflicted him, but instead he died at the age of 34 in penurious exile, a victim of the bigotry of many, including — sad to say — our own country's Calvinist ...
