Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska Maria of Austria (17 January 1831 – 14 February 1903) was born in Ofen (

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, the daughter of

Palatine Joseph of Hungary Archduke Joseph Anton Johann of Austria (, , 9 March 1776 – 13 January 1847) was the 103rd and penultimate palatine of Hungary who served for more than 50 years from 1796 to 1847, after he had been appointed governor in 1795. The latter half ...

(1776–1847) and his third wife Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (1797–1855).

First marriage

Her first marriage, on 4 October 1847 in

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, was to her second cousin Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este (1821–1849), by whom she had one daughter: *

Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria-Este Archduke (feminine: Archduchess; German: ''Erzherzog'', feminine form: ''Erzherzogin'') was the title borne from 1358 by the Habsburg rulers of the Archduchy of Austria, and later by all senior members of that dynasty. It denotes a rank within ...

(1849–1919), wife of King

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and Jacobite

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to the thrones of

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and

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Second marriage

Her second marriage, on 18 April 1854, in

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, was to her first cousin Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria (1818–1874) by whom she had six children: * Archduke Franz Joseph of Austria (1855–1855) * Archduke Friedrich of Austria, Duke of Teschen (1856–1936) *

Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria Archduke (feminine: Archduchess; German: ''Erzherzog'', feminine form: ''Erzherzogin'') was the title borne from 1358 by the Habsburg rulers of the Archduchy of Austria, and later by all senior members of that dynasty. It denotes a rank within ...

(1858–1929), Queen of Spain, wife of King

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Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria Archduke (feminine: Archduchess; German: ''Erzherzog'', feminine form: ''Erzherzogin'') was the title borne from 1358 by the Habsburg rulers of the Archduchy of Austria, and later by all senior members of that dynasty. It denotes a rank within ...

(1860–1933) *

Archduke Eugen of Austria Archduke Eugen Ferdinand Pius Bernhard Felix Maria of Austria-Teschen (21 May 1863 – 30 December 1954) was an Archduke of Austria and a Prince of Hungary and Bohemia. He was the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights from the Habsburg dyna ...

(1863–1954) * Archduchess Maria Eleonora of Austria (1864–1864) Elisabeth died at her son's ''palais'', the

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, of

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. She is buried in

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, where there is a street named after her.

Ancestry

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