Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria


Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska Maria of Austria was born in Ofen, Hungary, the daughter of Palatine Joseph of Hungary and his third wife Maria Dorothea of Württemberg.

First marriage

Her first marriage, on 4 October 1847 in Vienna, was to her second cousin Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este, by whom she had one daughter:
Her second marriage, on 18 April 1854, in Vienna, was to her first cousin Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria by whom she had six children:
Elisabeth died at her son's palais, the Albertina, Vienna, of pneumonia. She is buried in Baden bei Wien, where there is a street named after her.

Ancestry