Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria
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Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska c. 1885

Elisabeth Franziska Maria, Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia (17 January 1831, Ofen Hungary - 14 February 1903), Vienna Austria .

Elisabeth of Austria was born in Ofen (Buda), Hungary, the daughter of Palatine Joseph of Hungary (1776-1847) and his third wife Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (1797-1855).

Her paternal grandparents were Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria Luisa of Spain. Her maternal grandparents were Ludwig Friedrich Alexander, Duke of Württemberg (1756 - 1817) and Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg.

Maria Luisa was a daughter of King Charles III of Spain and Maria Amalia of Saxony. Ludwig Friedrich Alexander was a younger son of Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg and Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt. He was brother to both Frederick I of Württemberg and Sophia Dorothea of Württemberg, Empress consort of Paul I of Russia.

Her first marriage, on 4 October 1847 in Vienna, was to Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este (1821-1849), 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 (1818-1874) by whom she had six children:

Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska and her children;Friedrich, Maria Christina Desirée and Maria Theresia

Elisabeth died in Vienna. She is buried in Baden bei Wien where there is a street named after her.

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