it, Carlo Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Filippo Jacopo Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero , image = Karl Salvator Austria 1839 1892.jpg , birth_date = , birth_place=

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, spouse = Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies , issue = Archduchess Maria Theresia
Archduke Leopold Salvator
Archduke Franz Salvator
Archduchess Karoline Marie
Archduke Albrecht Salvator
Archduchess Maria Antoinette
Archduchess Maria Immakulata
Archduke Rainier Salvator
Archduchess Henriette
Archduke Ferdinand Salvator , house =

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, father =

Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II( it, Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Francesco Ferdinando Carlo, german: Leopold Johann Joseph Franz Ferdinand Karl, English: ''Leopold John Joseph Francis Ferdinand Charles''. (3 October 1797 – 29 January 1870) was Grand Duke of Tusc ...

, mother =

Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies it, Maria Antonietta Giuseppa Anna , image = Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies by Morelli 1840.jpg , caption = Maria Antonia in the early 1840s, painted by Carlo Morelli , reign = 7 June 1833 – 21 July 1859 , ...

Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria (

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: ''Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Philipp Jakob Januarius Ludwig Gonzaga Ranier'';

, 30 April 1839 –

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, 18 January 1892), was a member of the Tuscan branch of the

House of Habsburg The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...

Early life and career

He was an Austrian

Archduke 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 ...

, a son of

and second wife

Marie Antoinette of Tuscany it, Maria Antonietta Giuseppa Anna , image = Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies by Morelli 1840.jpg , caption = Maria Antonia in the early 1840s, painted by Carlo Morelli , reign = 7 June 1833 – 21 July 1859 , ...

. He was a ''

Feldmarschall-Leutnant Lieutenant field marshal, also frequently historically field marshal lieutenant (german: Feldmarschall-Leutnant, formerly , historically also and, in official Imperial and Royal Austrian army documents from 1867 always , abbreviated ''FML''), was ...

'' of the Imperial ( k.u.k.)

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. He worked with Count George von Dormus as inventor of early self-loading small arms including the Salvator Dormus pistol and the

Salvator-Dormus M1893 The Salvator-Dormus M1893 also known as Skoda M1893 was a heavy machine gun of Austro-Hungarian origin. It was patented by Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and Count George von Dormus and was manufactured by Skoda Works Plzeň. The Salvator-Dor ...

heavy

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Family and children

He married in

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on 19 September 1861 his first cousin Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (

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, 14 April 1844 –

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, 18 February 1899), daughter of his maternal uncle

Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies Ferdinand II ( it, Ferdinando Carlo; scn, Ferdinannu Carlu; nap, Ferdinando Carlo; 12 January 1810 – 22 May 1859) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1830 until his death in 1859. Family Ferdinand was born in Palermo to King Francis I of the T ...

, and second wife

Maria Theresa of Austria Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (german: Maria Theresia; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position '' suo jure'' (in her own right) ...

. Their children were: * Archduchess Maria Theresia ( Alt-Bunzlau, 18 September 1862 – 10 May 1933), married in

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on 28 February 1886

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) and had issue. * Archduke Leopold Salvator ( Alt-Bunzlau,

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, 15 October 1863 –

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, 4 September 1931), married in Frohsdorf on 24 October 1889 Blanca, Infanta of Spain (1868 – 1949), and had issue * Archduke Franz Salvator (

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, 21 August 1866 –

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, 20 April 1939), married firstly in

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on 31 July 1890 Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (1868 – 1924), and had issue, and married secondly

morganatically Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty or other inherited title prevents the principal's position or privileges being passed to the spou ...

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on 28 April 1934 Melanie Freiin von Riesenfels (1898 – 1984), without issue * Archduchess Karoline Marie (

, 5 September 1869 –

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, 12 May 1945), married in

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on 30 May 1894

Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (6 December 1867 – 11 October 1922), known in Brazil as Dom Augusto Leopoldo, was a prince of the Empire of Brazil and of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry. He was the second of four son ...

(1867 – 1922) and had issue. *Archduke Albrecht Salvator ( Alt-Bunzlau, 22 November 1871 –

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, 27 February 1896), unmarried and without issue *Archduchess Maria Antoinette (

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, 18 April 1874 –

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, 14 January 1891) *Archduchess Maria Immakulata (

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, 3 September 1878 – Schloss Altshausen, 25 November 1968), married in

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on 29 October 1900 Duke Robert of Württemberg (1873 – 1947) without issue *Archduke Rainer Salvator (

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, 27 February 1880 –

, 4 May 1889) *Archduchess Henriette Maria (

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, 20 February 1884 – Traunkirchen, 13 August 1886) *Archduke Ferdinand Salvator (

, 2 June 1888 – Traunkirchen, 28 July 1891)

Ancestry

References

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