HRH Prince and Archduke Franz Carl of Austria
✶ 7 December 1802 in Vienna
✟ 8 March 1878 in Vienna
Appointed
The Royal Palace of Stockholm 9 July 1850
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Missing
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Painted 1862 by C G Sjöblom. Date of death added 1878 by Carl Högberg.
other awards
None
Biography
Younger son to Emperor Franz I and younger brother to Emperor Ferdinand I. A member of the Geheime Staatskonferenz council, which after the death of Emperor Francis II ruled the Austrian Empire in the stead of his brother Ferdinand from 1835 to 1848. Renounced his claims to the throne at the time of his brother’s abdication on 2 December 1848, allowing his eldest son Franz Joseph I to take the throne. Prince of Hungary in 1867.
He was the father of two emperors: Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico. Through his third son Karl Ludwig, he was the grandfather of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria – whose assassination sparked the hostilities that led to the outbreak of World War I – and the great-grandfather of the last Habsburg emperor Karl I.
Placement
Not on display.