Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este

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Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor
Archduke of Austria-Este Prince of Modena
Spouse	Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria
Issue
Maria Theresia, Queen of Bavaria
House	House of Habsburg-Este
Father	Francis IV of Modena
Mother	Maria Beatrice of Savoy
Born	20 July 1821(1821-07-20) Modena
Died	15 December 1849(1849-12-15) (aged 28) Brno

Ferdinand Karl Viktor (20 July 1821 – 15 December 1849) was Archduke of Austria-Este and Prince of Modena.

Biography

Born in Modena, he was the second son of Francis IV of Modena and his wife Maria Beatrice of Savoy. His paternal grandmother had been heiress to the Duchy of Modena, because her father Ercole III d'Este had no sons.

Ferdinand married on 4 December 1846 in the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna with Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, daughter of Archduke Josef Anton of Austria and his third wife Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg.

Elisabeth and Ferdinand had one daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1849–1919), who became the last Queen of Bavaria.

Ferdinand, who was a Feldmarschalleutnant (Austrian "two stars" general rank), died at Brno a few months later at the age of 28 from typhus. His widow remarried with Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria.

Ferdinand is the link in the Jacobite succession between his brother Francis I and his daughter Mary IV and III.

Ancestry

Source

• The peerage