![]() While this did raise her status, but she was considered lower than the other Archduchesses at court and still did not have many royal rights. Nine years later, her title was changed to the more senior one of Duchess of Hohenberg, styles as Her Highness. Sophie was given the title of Princess of Hohenberg, styled as Her Serene Highness. Princess Maria Theresa of Braganza, his stepmother, was the only royal present with her two daughters. The emperor did not attend the wedding and neither did any of the other archdukes, including Franz Ferdinand’s brothers. ![]() On July 1, 1900, Franz Ferdinand wed Sophie Chotek at Reichstadt, Bohemia, modern day Zákupy. Sophie as well would not be given her husband’s title and did not normally appear with im in public nor would she be allowed in royal carriages or the royal boxes at the theater.įranz Ferdinand with his wife Sophie and their three children from left to right, Prince Ernst von Hohenberg, Princess Sophie, and Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg. He was finally able to get Emperor Franz Joseph’s permission to wed Sophie in 1899 under the condition that the marriage was morganatic and any of Franz Ferdinand’s would have no rights to the throne. The two wrote to each other often, but their relationship was kept secret.įranz Ferdinand was so deeply in love with Sophie that he refused to marry anyone else. Franz Ferdinand began visiting Isabella’s husband’s (Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen) villa located in Pressburg, today’s Bratislava. Sophie was also Archduchess Isabella’s lady-in-waiting. However to marry into the House of Habsburg, you were required to be a member of a current or former reigning European house, and Sophie was not royalty, though many of their ancestors had been royalty, including Albert IV, Count of Habsburg. In 1894, Franz Ferdinand first met his future wife Countess Sophie Chotek as the two were attending a ball in Prague. In 1896, Karl Ludwig died of typhoid fever and Franz Ferdinand became the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. When his father remarried Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, she had two daughters with him, (Archduchess Maria Annunziata of Austria and Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria).įranz Ferdinand’s life changed even more in 1889 when his cousin Crown Prince Rudolf committed suicide while in Mayerling staying at his hunting lodge and his father Karl Ludwig was made first in line to the throne. He had two brothers (Archduke Otto Franz of Austria and Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria) and a sister (Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria). The only condition was that he added the name Este onto his. When he was eleven, his cousin Duke Francis V of Modena died in 1875 and Franz Ferdinand was therefore made his heir. ![]() On December 18, 1863, Franz Ferdinand was born to Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria and Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, his second wife, in Graz, Austria.
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