Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria


Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria is a member of the Tuscan line of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. Outside of Austria and Hungary, which abolished and outlawed all titles of nobility with the Adelsaufhebungsgesetz in 1919, he may be referred by his titles Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Prince of Tuscany with the style His Imperial and Royal Highness.. Leopold Franz was the titular Grand Duke of Tuscany from 21 January 1984 to 18 June 1993.

Family

Leopold Franz is the son of Archduke Gottfried of Austria and his wife Princess Dorothea of Bavaria.

Marriage and issue

Leopold Franz married Laetitia de Belzunce d'Arenberg, eldest child and only daughter of Henri de Belzunce, marquis de Belzunce, a French nobleman, and his wife Marie-Thérèse de la Poëze d'Harambure, civilly on 19 June 1965 in St. Gilgen and religiously on 28 July 1965 in Menetou-Salon. Leopold Franz and Laetitia had two children together:
Leopold Franz and Laetitia divorced on 21 May 1981.
He married for a second time on 18 June 1993 to Marta Julia Perez Valverde, an Argentinian-born Viennese psychoanalyst, thereby renouncing his rights to the titular Grand Ducal throne of Tuscany in favor of his elder son Sigismund, the current head of the House of Habsburg-Tuscany Leopold Franz and Marta divorced in 1998.