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Mother. Princess Zita of Parma. Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este (given names: Robert Karl Ludwig Maximilian Michael Maria Anton Franz Ferdinand Joseph Otto Hubert Georg Pius Johannes Marcus d'Aviano; 8 February 1915 – 7 February 1996), was the second son of Karl I, ( beatified) last Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma.
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este (given names: Robert Karl Ludwig Maximilian Michael Maria Anton Franz Ferdinand Joseph Otto Hubert Georg Pius Johannes Marcus d'Aviano; 8 February 1915 – 7 February 1996), was the second son of Karl I, (beatified) last Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma. Read more on Wikipedia.
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- Today's Archduke of Austria-Este
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The Duchy of Modena and Reggio was created in 1452 for the House of Este's Borso d'Este, Marquess of Modena and Reggio. The duchy lay in the northwest of modern-day Italy. The House of Este's senior branch was the Hanoverian Welfs, also known as the Guelphs, who sat on the British throne between 1714 and 1901. Several generations of the junior line...
After Napoleon's fall from glory, the former Duchy of Modena and Reggio was claimed by Francesco IV from the House of Austria-Este. The House of Este became extinct in 1803 when Ercole III died. Ercole's daughter Maria Beatrice and her husband Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria-Este's eldest son and so the successor to the duchy was Ferdinand. Fran...
After his mother's death in 1840, Francesco V became the oldest surviving Roman Catholic descendant of the House of Stuart and the Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England and Scotland. He made no claim on young Queen Victoria's throne and instead concentrated on the duchy. On 20th March 1842, Francesco married Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, th...
In 1848, autocratic Francesco, accompanied by Adelgunde, was expelled from the duchy during the rash of pan-European revolutions. Fortunately for the duke, more people wanted him to return than to remain in exile, and with the Austrian military's assistance, he was restored. Francesco V adopted a noticeably moderate line until a failed assassinatio...
After a demoralising defeat to Piedmont at the Battle of Magenta during 1859's Second Italian War of Independence, Francesco V fled from his duchy again. He and Adelgunde took refuge in Vienna, Austria. Francesco's Habsburg cousin, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary, gave them a city residence that they called Palais Modena. Their summer hom...
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's great-nephew Robert, born in 1915, was awarded the Austria-Este title on 16th April 1917 by his father, Karl I, the last Emperor of Austria. Through his mother, Empress Consort Zita (of Bourbon-Parma), Robert was a descendent of Ercole III, the last House of Este Duke of Modena and Reggio. His son, Prince Lorenzo of Belgi...
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Through his mother Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Robert happened to be a descendant of Duke Ercole III of Modena and Reggio as well, and thus the blood of the last Este dukes was joined with the name Austria-Este. On Robert's death his eldest son, Archduke Lorenz, born 1955, by his wife, Princess Margherita of Savoy, succeeded him in that role.
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este (given names: Robert Karl Ludwig Maximilian Michael Maria Anton Franz Ferdinand Joseph Otto Hubert Georg Pius Johannes Marcus d'Aviano; 8 February 1915 – 7 February 1996), was the second son of Karl I and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma.
About this Item. Title. Archduke Robert of Austria. Summary. Photograph shows Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este (1915-1996), the second son of Karl I, last Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Names. Bain News Service, publisher. Created / Published. [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
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