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Apr 24, 2019 · The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, is widely seen as the central, precipitating event of the First World War: the spark that lit the conflagration. Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, June 28, 1914.
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg ( German: Sophie Marie Josephine Albina Gräfin Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin; Czech: Žofie Marie Josefína Albína hraběnka Chotková z Chotkova a Vojnína; 1 March 1868 – 28 June 1914) was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Their assassination in Sarajevo ...
- Sophie Maria Josephine Albina Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin
- Count Bohuslaw Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin
- Countess Wilhelmine Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau
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May 22, 2022 · Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, June 28, 1914. In an event that is widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian ...
Franz Ferdinand was the eldest son of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Following the death of Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889 and the death of Karl Ludwig in 1896, Franz Ferdinand became the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His courtship of Sophie Chotek, a lady-in-waiting ...
Jun 20, 2013 · Thu 20 Jun 2013 12.40 EDT. The blood-splattered shirt of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in 1914 triggered the outbreak of the first world war, is to go on display in Vienna on ...
Other articles where Sophie, countess von Chotek is discussed: Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Este: Life until 1914: His desire to marry Sophie, countess of Chotek, a lady-in-waiting, brought him into sharp conflict with the emperor and the court. Only after renouncing his future children’s rights to the throne was the morganatic marriage allowed in 1900.
Jun 27, 2014 · Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his pregnant wife Sophie moments before they were assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. Photograph: Popperfoto
