Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria


Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, in Italian Francesco Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Ferdinando Carlo Leopoldo Antonio di Padova Giovanni Battista Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero Benedetto Bernardo, in German Franz Salvator Maria Joseph Ferdinand Karl Leopold Anton von Padua Johann Baptist Januarius Aloys Gonzaga Rainer Benedikt Bernhard, was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg.

Early life and career

He was a son of Archduke Karl Salvator, Prince of Tuscany and his wife Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two-Sicilies. He was a cavalry general in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army. He received an honorary doctorate in medicine from the University of Innsbruck for his work with the Red Cross during World War I and was a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece and Order of the White Eagle.

Family and children

He married first, in Ischl on 31 July 1890, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, daughter of Franz Joseph I of Austria and wife Elisabeth in Bavaria.
Their children were:
  1. Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska Marie Karoline Ignatia Salvator, married at Niederwallsee on 19 September 1912 Count Georg von Waldburg zu Zeil und Hohenems, and had issue.
  2. Archduke Franz Carl Salvator Marie Joseph Ignaz, married one issue.
  3. Archduke Hubert Salvator Rainer Maria Joseph Ignatius, married at Anholt civilly on 25 November 1926 and religiously on 26 November 1926 Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm, and had issue.
  4. Archduchess Hedwig Maria Immakulata Michaela Ignatia Salvator, married at Schloss Wallsee on 24 April 1918 Count Bernhard zu Stolberg-Stolberg, and had issue.
  5. Archduke Theodor Salvator, married at Schloss Zeil on 28 July 1926 Countess Maria Theresa von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg, and had issue, including Princess Theresa.
  6. Archduchess Gertrud Maria Gisela Elisabeth Ignatia, married at Bad Ischl on 29 December 1931 Count Georg von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg, and had issue.
  7. Archduchess Maria Elisabeth Therese Philomena Ignatia.
  8. Archduke Clemens Salvator Leopold Benedikt Antonius Maria Joseph Ignatius ; he assumed the title Prince von Altenburg on 2 April 1931, confirmed on him and his children 15 December 1949; married in Vienna on 20 February 1930 Countess Elisabeth Rességuier de Miremont, and had issue.
  9. Archduchess Mathilde Maria Antonia Ignatia, married in Hall in Tirol on 9 April 1947 Ernst Hefel.
  10. Archduchess Agnes.
He married secondly, morganatically in Vienna on 28 April 1934, Baroness Melanie von Riesenfels.
Franz Salvator also had an illegitimate son by Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe:.
  1. Franz Josef Rudolf Hans Weriand Max Stefan Anton von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst. He was given the surname of his mother's husband at the time of his birth, although Franz Salvator was his father.

    Ancestry