Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria

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Archduke Josef Francis
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Born (1895-03-28)28 March 1895
Brünn, Bohemia, Austrian Empire
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Carcavelos, Portugal
Spouse Princess Anna of Saxony
Issue Archduchess Margit, Princess of Monteleone
Archduchess Ilona, Duchess of Mecklenburg
Archduchess Anna-Theresia
Archduke Joseph Arpád
Archduke István Dominik
Archduchess Maria Kynga
Archduke Géza
Archduke Michael
House Habsburg-Lorraine
Father Archduke Joseph August of Austria
Mother Princess Auguste Maria of Bavaria
Monarchical styles of
Archduke Josef Francis of Austria
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Reference style His Imperial and Royal Highness
Spoken style Your Imperial and Royal Highness
Alternative style Sir

Josef Franz Leopold Anton Ignatius Maria Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary (28 March 1895 – 25 September 1957) was the eldest son of Archduke Joseph August of Austria and Princess Auguste Maria of Bavaria. As his father was the last Palatine of Hungary and was briefly considered a possible King of Hungary in 1919–1920, Josef Franz was a potential crown prince of Hungary.

He was born during the reign of his maternal great-grandfather, Franz Joseph I of Austria.

Marriage and issue

Princess Anna of Saxony and Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria
Archduke Joseph Francis, around 1920

On 4 October 1924, Archduke Josef Franz married Princess Anna of Saxony, a daughter of Friedrich August III of Saxony and Archduchess Luise, Princess of Tuscany.[1] Anna and Josef Francis had eight children:

  • Archduchess Margit of Austria (born 17 August 1925; died 3 May 1979) married, in August 1944, Alexander Cech (born 23 March 1914; died 30 June 2008) who styled himself Prince Erba-Odescalchi, Prince of Monteleone, and had one daughter;
    • Sybilla Erba-Odescalchi, Princess of Monteleone (born 7 August 1945; died 2011) married Samir Fawzi Beshhai Bekkeit, and had three children:
      • Augustin Beshhai-Bekkeit (born 17 March 1968)
      • Helene Beshhai-Bekkeit (born 21 September 1969)
      • Eleonore Beshhai-Bekkeit (born 19 March 1974)
  • Archduchess Ilona of Austria (20 April 1927 - 11 January 2011) married Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg
  • Archduchess Anna-Theresia (born 19 April 1928; died 28 November 1984)
  • Archduke Joseph Arpád of Austria (born 8 February 1933), married Princess Maria von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
  • Archduke István Dominik of Austria (1 July 1934 - 24 October 2011), married Maria Anderl
  • Archduchess Maria Kynga (born 27 August 1938), married, firstly, Ernst Kiss. She married, secondly, Joachim Krist on 30 March 1988.
  • Archduke Géza of Austria (born 14 November 1940), married Monika Decke
  • Archduke Michael of Austria (born 5 May 1942), married Princess Christiana of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (born 1940)

Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria died on 25 September 1957 in Carcavelos, Portugal

Ancestry

Family of Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Maria Luisa of Spain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Louis of Württemberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Maria Dorothea of Württemberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Archduke Joseph August of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Louis-Philippe I, King of the French
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Clémentine of Orléans
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Ludwig I of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Prince Leopold of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Auguste Ferdinande of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Maria Anna of Saxony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Auguste of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Franz Joseph I of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Sophie of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Gisela of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Elisabeth of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Ludovika of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 

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