Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria

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Josef Franz, Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary (Josef Franz Leopold Anton Ignatius Maria; 28 March 1895 – 25 September 1957), was the eldest son of Archduke Joseph August of Austria and Princess Auguste Maria of Bavaria.[1] As his father was the last Palatine of Hungary and was briefly considered a potential King of Hungary in 1919–1920, Josef Franz was a potential crown prince of Hungary. He was born during the reign of his maternal great-grandfather, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.[2]

He wrote the libretto to Eugene Zador's 1939 opera Christopher Columbus.[3]

Marriage and issue

On 4 October 1924, Archduke Josef Franz married Princess Anna of Saxony, a daughter of Friedrich August III of Saxony and Archduchess Luise of Austria-Tuscany.[4] Anna and Joseph Francis had eight children:

  • Archduchess Margaret of Austria (17 August 1925 – 3 May 1979), married Alexander Cech in August 1944, and had issue.[5]
  • Archduchess Ilona of Austria (20 April 1927 – 11 January 2011), married Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg in 1946, and had issue.
  • Archduchess Anna-Theresia of Austria (19 April 1928 – 28 November 1984), died unmarried without issue.
  • Archduke Joseph Árpád of Austria (8 February 1933 – 30 April 2017), married Princess Maria von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg in 1956, and had issue.
  • Archduke István Dominik of Austria (1 July 1934 – 24 October 2011), married Maria Anderl in 1959, leaving issue.
  • Archduchess Maria Kynga of Austria (born 27 August 1938), married Ernst Kiss in 1959, and subsequently remarried Joachim Krist in 1988.
  • Archduke Géza of Austria (born 14 November 1940), married Monika Decker in 1965, and subsequently remarried Elizabeth Jane Kunstadter in 1992, leaving issue.[6]
  • Archduke Michael of Austria (born 5 May 1942), married Princess Christiana of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg in 1966, leaving issue, including Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen.

Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria died on 25 September 1957 in Carcavelos, on the Portuguese Riviera.[7]

Arms

Ancestry

References

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  2. 2.McNaughton, Arnold (1973). "Habsburg". The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy. London: Garnstone Press. ISBN 0-900391-19-7.
  3. 3.Noel Straus (9 October 1939). "COLUMBUS VOYAGE DEPICTED IN OPERA; Eugene Zador's One-Act Work Has World Premiere Here at the Center Theatre". The New York Times. p. 14.
  4. 4.Adelsarchiv, Deutsches (2015). "Habsburg". Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch: Fürstliche Häuser. Marburg: Verlag des Deutschen Adelsarchivs. ISBN 978-3981724301.
  5. 5.Ruvigny and Raineval, Melville Henry Massue (1914). "Habsburg". The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage. London: Harrison & Sons.
  6. 6.Volkmann, Jean-Charles (1998). "Habsbourg". Généalogies des rois et des princes d'Europe. Paris: Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot. ISBN 978-2877473743.
  7. 7.Gotha (1998). "Habsburg". Almanach de Gotha. Gotha: Justus Perthes. ISBN 978-0953214204.