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Austrian (Modena Line) Royal FamilyAustrian -Este (Modena) Coat of Arms

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REFERENCE TITLE NAME BORN DIED   TITLE NAME BORN DIED COMMENTS
47 Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria 1754 1806 Princess Maria Beatrice d'Este (Princess of Modena) 1750 1829 Maria Beatrice was the daughter of Ercole (Hercules) III d'Este Duke of Modena (1727-1803). Duke Ercole signed a treaty in1763 with Ferdinand Karl's mother Empress Maria Theresa engaging the nine-year old Ferdinand to his only daughter Maria Beatrice, thereby making him his heir. However in 1796 a French invasion forced Duke Ercole to flee to Venice. Following the death of Duke Ercole in 1803 his son-in-law Archduke Ferdinand Karl became Titular Duke of Modena. In 1814 Ferdinand Karl's son Francis IV was restored to the Modena Duchy (Ferdinand Karl having died in 1806 was deprived the opportunity to rule in Modena). Ferdinand Karl was a sister of the famed Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) of Austria who along with her husband King Louis XVI (1754-1793) of France were executed by guillotine in 1793 (albeit nine months apart).
47.1 Archduke Josef Franz of Austria-Este (Modena Line) 1772 1772          
47.2 Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria-Este (Modena Line) 1773 1832 King Vittorio Emanuele I of Sardinia 1759 1824 Vittorio Emanuele was King of Sardinia from 1802 to 1821 having succeeded his elder brother Charles Emmanuel IV (1751-1819) who had abdicated following the death of his wife. Vittorio Emanuele following revolutions in Sardinia in 1821 abdicated in favour of his brother, Charles Felix.
47.21 Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy 1792 1840 Archduke Francis of Austria-Este (Modena Line) (Duke Francis IV of Modena) 1779 1846 See 47.5
47.22 Princess Marie Adelaide of Savoy 1794 1802          
47.23 Prince Carlo Emanuele of Savoy 1796 1799          
47.24   a daughter of Savoy 1800 1801          
47.25 Princess Maria Teresa of Savoy 1803 1879 Duke Carlo II of Parma 1799 1883  
47.26 Princess Maria Anna of Savoy 1803 1884 Emperor Ferdinand of Austria 1793 1875  
47.27 Princess Maria Cristina of Savoy 1812 1836 King Ferdinando II of the Two Sicilies 1810 1859  
47.3 Archduchess Josephine Ferdinanda of Austria-Este (Modena Line) 1775 1777          
47.4 Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este (Modena Line) 1776 1848 Elector Karl Theodor of Bavaria 1724 1799 Karl Theodor was succeeded as Elector of Bavaria by his very distant cousin Maximilian, Duke of Zweibruken who later became the first King of Bavaria
47.4 Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este (Modena Line) 1776 1848 Count Ludwig von Arco 1773 1854  
47.5 Archduke Francis of Austria-Este (Modena Line) (Duke Francis IV of Modena) 1779 1846 Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy 1792 1840  
47.51 Archduchess Marie Therese of Austria (Modena Line) 1817 1886 Prince Henri of France (HENRI V) Duke of Bordeaux, Count of Chambord 1820 1883 See 37.514
47.52 Archduke Francis of Austria-Este (Duke Francis V of Modena) 1819 1875 Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria 1823 1914 See 18.16 - Death announcement of Archduke Francis
47.521 Archduchess Anna Beatrice of Austria (Modena Line) 1848 1849          
47.53 Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este (Modena Line) 1821 1849 Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (Hungarian Line) 1831 1903 See 21.6
47.531 Archduchess Marie Theresa of Austria-Este (Modena Line) 1849 1919 King Ludwig III of Bavaria 1845 1921 See 18.151 - Ludwig succeeded his father Luitpold as Regent of Bavaria and became King of Bavaria on 5 November 1913 following the removal of his cousin Otto II who was deemed to be mad. Ludwig was the last King of Bavaria, he was deposed by a communist uprising on 7/8 November 1918 and left for exile in Austria. Marie Theresa succeeded her paternal uncle Duke Francis V of Modena as Heir-Gen of Charles I, King of England (i.e. heir to the Jacobite claim to the throne of Great Britain)
47.54 Archduchess Beatrix of Austria-Este (Modena Line) 1824 1906 Infant Juan Carlos of Spain (Count de Montizon) 1822 1887 See 12.52
47.6 Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria-Este (Modena Line) 1781 1850          
47.7 Archduke Maximilian Joseph of Austria-Este (Modena Line) 1782 1863          
47.8 Archduke Maria Antonia of Austria-Este (Modena Line) 1784 1786          
47.9 Archduke Karl Ambrosius of Austria-Este (Modena Line) 1785 1809          
47.J Archduchess Maria Ludowika of Austia-Este (Modena) 1787 1816 Emperor Franz I of Austria 1768 1835 See 19 - Franz assumed the title of Emperor of Austria on 11 August 1804 and on 6 August 1806 became the last Holy Roman Emperor on its dissolution

Note - QVD against a reference number indicates the first named individual is a descendant of Queen Victoria.

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