Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este

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Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph (lithography by Joseph Kriehuber, 1841).

Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este (25 April 1781 – 5 November 1850) was the third son of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este and of his wife Princess Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este, last member and heiress of the House of Este. For much of the Napoleonic Wars he was in command of the Austrian army.

Ferdinand was born at Milan. He attended the military academy in Wiener Neustadt before embarking on a military career. In 1805 in the war of the Third Coalition against France, Ferdinand was commander-in-chief of the Austrian forces with General Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich as his quartermaster general. In October his army was surrounded at Ulm. General Mack surrendered, but Ferdinand managed to escape with 2000 cavalry to Bohemia. There he took command of the Austrian troops and raised the local militia. With a total of 9,000 men he set out for Iglau to distract attention from the Coalition's movements. He succeeded in holding the Bavarian division of Prince Karl Philipp von Wrede in Iglau thereby and preventing it from joining the Battle of Austerlitz.

In 1809 in the war of the Fifth Coalition against France, Ferdinand commanded an Austrian army of 36,000 men. In April he invaded the Duchy of Warsaw hoping to encourage a local uprising against Napoleon (see Polish-Austrian War). But the Poles rallied to Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski. Ferdinand was defeated at the Battle of Raszyn, but managed to occupy Warsaw. In June, however, Ferdinand was compelled to withdraw from Warsaw, and to give up Kraków and Galicia as well.

In 1815 in the war of the Seventh Coalition against France, Ferdinand commanded two divisions of the Austrian Reserve. The following year he was appointed military commander in Hungary.

In 1830 Ferdinand was appointed military and civil governor of Galicia, taking up residence in Lviv. After the Revolution of 1848 he resided mostly in Italy.

Ferdinand never married. In 1850 he died at Schloss Ebenzweier in Altmünster near Gmunden, Austria.

Honours and awards

Austria

Foreign honours

Ancestry

Family of Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Charles V, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Maria Theresa of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Rinaldo III, Duke of Modena
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Charlotte of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Françoise-Marie de Bourbon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Carlo II Cibo-Malsapina, Duke of Massa
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Alderano Cibo-Malsapina, Duke of Massa
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Teresa Pamfili
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Maria Teresa Cibo-Malsapina, Duchess of Massa
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Camillo III Gonzaga, Count of Novellara
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Ricciardia Gonzaga of Novellara
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Matilde d'Este
 
 
 
 
 
 

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