Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1892–1930)

Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska
Countess of Waldburg, of Zeil and Hohenems
Elisabeth Franziska of Tuscany at age 22
Born	(1892-01-27)27 January 1892 Wien, Austria–Hungary
Died	29 January 1930(1930-01-29) (aged 38) Syrgenstein, Austria
Spouse	Georg, Graf von Waldburg zu Zeil und Hohenems
Issue	Countess Marie Valerie Countess Klementine Countess Elisabeth Count Franz Josef
Full name German: Elisabeth Franziska Marie Karoline Ignatia
House	Habsburg-Lorraine
Father	Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria
Mother	Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria

Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska Marie Karoline Ignatia Salvator (27 January 1892 – 29 January 1930) was the eldest daughter of Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria and Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria. Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.

Biography

She was born in Vienna on 27 January 1892 to Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria and his wife, Archduchess Marie Valerie, youngest daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. She married at Niederwallsee on 19 September 1912 Georg Count von Waldburg zu Zeil und Hohenems (1878–1955). The marriage was one of love and not a political marriage. Georg von Waldburg had no money or property, and had been hired as a tutor for her brothers.^[1]

They had four children, three daughters and a son:

• Countess Marie Valerie von Waldburg-Zeil (1913–2011) she married Archduke Georg of Austria, Prince of Tuscany (1905–1952) in 1936. He was the younger son of Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
• Countess Klementine von Waldburg-Zeil (1914–1941)
• Countess Elisabeth von Waldburg-Zeil (1917–1979)
• Count Franz Josef von Waldburg-Zeil (born 1927)

Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska was a painter for some time. She died, aged 38, of pneumonia on 29 January 1930. Her widower remarried nearly two years later, on 29 December 1931, to her younger sister Gertrud.

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