Archduke Sigismund, Grand Duke of Tuscany
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Pretender Archduke Sigismund of Austria
Born	21 April 1966 (1966-04-21) (age 42) Lausanne, Switzerland
Title(s)	Grand Duke of Tuscany Archduke of Austria Prince Imperial of Austria Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia
Throne(s) claimed	Tuscany
Pretend from	18 June, 1993
Monarchy abolished	1860
Last monarch	Ferdinand IV
Connection with	great-great grandson
Royal House	Habsburg-Lorraine
Father	Archduke Leopold Franz
Mother	Princess Laetitia of Arenberg
Spouse	Elyssa Edmonstone
Predecessor	Archduke Leopold Franz

Archduke Sigismund of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Sigismund Otto Maria Josef Gottfried Henrich Erik Leopold Ferdinand von Habsburg-Lothringen), Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (born 21 April 1966) is the titular Grand Duke of Tuscany and current head of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

Biography

Sigismund was born in Lausanne the son of Archduke Leopold Franz and his first wife Princess Laetitia of Arenberg, born Laetitia de Belsunce (and adopted by her stepfather Erik, 11th Duke of Arenberg).¹ Sigismund was educated in Computer science and has worked as a banker.²

In 1993 Sigismund's father Leopold Franz renounced his rights as Head of the Grand Ducal Family of Tuscany in favour of Sigismund because his second marriage (after a divorce) conflicted with the laws of the Roman Catholic Order of St. Stephen, of which he was then head. Since then, Sigismund has been the Head of the Grand Ducal House of Tuscany.

Sigismund has a deep and long-standing relationship with Uruguay. He was raised there by his mother. He and his maternal family are said to possess important businesses in Punta del Este and in the countryside.^{citation needed}

Honours

Sigismund is Grand Master of the Order of Saint Joseph and Order of Saint Stephen, the two orders of knighthood of the Grand Ducal House of Tuscany. He has also a served as a patron for the Almanach de Gotha.³

Family

In 1999, Sigismund married Elyssa Juliet Edmonstone (born Glasgow, September 11, 1973), the only daughter of Sir Archibald Bruce Edmonstone, of Duntreath, 7th Baronet by his second wife Juliet Elizabeth Deakin.⁴ Archduchess Elyssa is a great-great-granddaughter of Marshall Field and a third cousin of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. The Edmonstone family is an old Scottish family that was only raised to a baronetcy on 20 May 1774; their best-known member was the royal mistress Alice Keppel.

The couple have three children:

• Archduke Amadeo, Grand Prince of Tuscany (born 9 May 2001), heir apparent to the headship of the House of Tuscany
• Archduchess Tatyana of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (born 3 March 2003)
• Archduke Maximilian of Austria, Prince of Tuscany (born 27 May 2004)

Sigismund lives with his family in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland.

Ancestry

Notes

See also

• Grand Duchy of Tuscany
• History of Tuscany
• Line of succession to the Tuscan throne

External links

• Grand Ducal House of Tuscany