Archduke Franz Karl of Austria

Styles of
**Archduke Franz Carl of Austria**
Styles of; Archduke Franz Carl of Austria
Reference style	His Imperial and Royal Highness
Spoken style	Your Imperial and Royal Highness

Names
	German: Franz Karl Joseph; English: Francis Charles Joseph

Archduke Franz Karl
Archduke Franz Karl
	Franz Karl at age 75, 1878.
Born	17 December 1802; Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire
Died	8 March 1878 (aged 75); Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Burial	Imperial Crypt
Spouse	Princess Sophie of Bavaria (m. 1824; died 1872)
Issue	Franz Joseph I of Austria; Maximilian I of Mexico; Archduke Karl Ludwig; Archduchess Maria Anna; Archduke Ludwig Viktor;
Names
Names
	German: Franz Karl Joseph; English: Francis Charles Joseph
House	Habsburg-Lorraine
Father	Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother	Princess Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily

Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria (17 December 1802 – 8 March 1878) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was the father of two emperors: Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico. Through his third son Karl Ludwig, he was the grandfather of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria – whose assassination sparked the hostilities that led to the outbreak of World War I – and the great-grandfather of the last Habsburg emperor Karl I.