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Archduke Karl Ludwig Josef Maria of Austria (30 July 1833 – 19 May 1896) was the younger brother of both Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico, and the father of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863–1914), whose assassination ignited World War I.
Born in Vienna on 30 July 1833, Archduke Karl Ludwig was the third son of Archduke Franz Karl and Sophie of Bavaria. The archduke was said to be rather simple and was overshadowed all his life by his elder brothers Franz Joseph and Ferdinand Maximilian (later emperor of Mexico).
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (Carl Ludwig Maria Franz Joseph Michael Gabriel Antonius Robert Stephan Pius Gregor Ignatius Markus d'Aviano; 10 March 1918 – 11 December 2007), also known as Carl Ludwig Habsburg-Lothringen, was the fifth child of Charles I of Austria and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma.
When the war between revolutionary France and Austria began, the archduke, having been promoted to the rank of major general in 1793, was for the first time confronted with the reality of the battlefield.
Archduke Karl Ludwig is described as an upright family man. He was the only one of Franz Joseph’s brothers to have surviving male offspring who could continue the ruling branch of the dynasty. Karl Ludwig was married three times:
Archduke Karl Ludwig Josef Maria of Austria (30 July 1833 – 19 May 1896) was the younger brother of both Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico, and the father of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863–1914), whose assassination ignited World War I.
Ludwig Viktor, Archduke of Austria (1842 – 1919), unmarried; Karl Ludwig’s mother ensured he was raised as a very devout Roman Catholic. As a result, he developed religious mania in his later years. In 1855, Karl Ludwig’s brother Emperor Franz Joseph appointed him the Governor of Tyrol.
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