Habsburg Modern Descendants

Archduke otto von habsburg maria josefa of saxony.

Habsburg modern descendants.

Legend has the family name originating with the habsburg castle in modern switzerland. The current habsburg family consists of the direct descendants of emperor karl and empress zita. Rudolf ii of habsburg died 1232 acquired laufenburg and the waldstätte schwyz uri unterwalden and lucerne but on his death his sons albert iv and rudolf iii partitioned the inheritance. Due to incest the family s genetic line progressively deteriorated until charles ii the final male heir was physically incapable of producing.

Over the centuries branches of the family ruled countries as diverse as modern germany spain slovakia peru mexico and croatia. Eleonore maria del pilar iona christina jelena born 28 february 1994 in salzburg. Rudolf iii s descendants however sold their portion including laufenburg to albert iv s descendants before dying out in 1408. Ferdinand zvonimir maria balthus keith michael otto antal bahnam leonhard born 21 june 1997 in salzburg.

The war of the austrian succession cost maria theresa most of silesia part of lombardy and the duchies of parma and piacenza treaty of aix la chapelle 1748 but left her in possession of the rest of her father s hereditary lands. Holy roman emperors kings of hungary and bohemia archdukes of austria francis i stephen emperor 1745 1765 family tree joseph ii emperor 1765 1790 leopold ii emperor 1790 1792 family tree francis ii emperor 1792 1806 family tree. The first habsburg who can be reliably traced was a certain kanzelin who died in the late 10th century. Karl and francesca have three children.

Emperor karl 1887 1922 zita of bourbon parma 1892 1989. Moreover her husband francis stephen of lorraine who in 1737 had become hereditary grand duke of. After 1279 they came to rule in austria the duchy of austria was part of the elective kingdom of germany within the holy roman empire king rudolf i of germany of the habsburg family assigned the duchy of. Married civilly to jérôme d ambrosio.

Franz joseph otto robert maria anton karl max heinrich sixtus xavier felix renatus ludwig gaetan pius ignatius von habsburg 20 november 1912 4 july 2011 also known by his traditional royal title of archduke otto of austria was the last crown prince of austria hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in 1919 a realm which comprised modern day austria hungary bosnia and. House of habsburg house of habsburg habsburg lorraine. They were holy roman emperors and heads of the austro hungarian empire and it was the assassination of one of their clan archduke franz ferdinand that started world war i.