Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria

Karl Albrecht
Archduke
Archduke Karl Albrecht in 1918
Spouse	Alice Elisabeth Ankarcrona
Issue
Prince Karl-Stefan Princess Maria-Christina Prince Karl Albrecht Princess Renata
Full name
Karl Albrecht Nikolaus Leo Gratianus
House	House of Habsburg-Lorraine
Father	Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria
Mother	Archduchess Maria Theresia, Princess of Tuscany
Born	December 18, 1888(1888-12-18) Pula, Austro-Hungary
Died	March 17, 1951(1951-03-17) (aged 62) near Stockholm, Sweden

Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria-Teschen (Karl Albrecht Nikolaus Leo Gratianus von Österreich, later Karl Albrecht Habsburg-Lothringen, since 1919 – Karol Olbracht Habsburg-Lotaryński, since 1949 – Karl von Habsburg-Altenburg; (Pula, 18 December 1888 – Östervik, nr. Stockholm, 17 March 1951).

Early life and career

He was an Austrian Archduke, the oldest son of Archduke Charles Stephen and Archduchess Maria Theresia, Princess of Tuscany.

He was Żywiec landowner, Officer Colonel of Artillery of both the Imperial (k.u.k.) Austro-Hungarian Army (on Horse) and the Polish Army, and the 1,175th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1910, etc.^[1]

In 1918 and again in 1939 he volunteered to the Polish Army. In 1920 he commanded the Grudziądz Fortress. During German occupation of Poland, he refused to sign the German Volksliste. He was imprisoned by Germans in November 1939, kept in Cieszyn prison and tortured until the end of the war. His wife was interned in Wisła. After liberation, he moved to Kraków and then to Sweden.

Family and children

On November 8, 1920 he married morganatically Alice Elisabeth Ankarcrona (Tullgarn, near Trosa, 18 December 1889 - Saltsjöbaden, near Stockholm, 26 November 1985) in the Castle of Saybusch (Żywiec), Galicia. Alice became the Princess von Altenburg (Highness) on 15 December 1949, as a daughter of Oscar Carl Gustav Ankarcrona (10 June 1857 -), and his wife (m. 20 November 1886) Anna Elisabeth Aurora Carleson (5 November 1867 -).

Their children were:

1. Karl-Stefan Maximilian Ferdinand Narcissus Maria Prince of Altenburg (b. Balice, 29 October 1921 -), married in Geneva on 18 September 1952 his first cousin Maria-Louise Victoria Katharina Elisabeth af Petersens (Stockholm, 4 November 1910 - Östervik, 27 May 1998), daughter of August af Petersens and wife Victoria (Vera) Ankarcrona, and had two children:
   1. Maria-Christina Ninfa Renata Margarita Isabella Clara Eugenia Anselma Princess of Altenburg (b. Stockholm, 21 April 1953 -), unmarried and without issue
   2. Karl-Albrecht Ferdinand Leopold Philipp Joseph Rafael Maria Prince of Altenburg (Stockholm, 24 October 1956 - Zürich, 26 May 1957)
2. Maria-Christina Immaculata Elisabeth Renata Alice Gabriela Princess of Altenburg (b. Castle of Saysbusch (Żywiec), Galicia, 8 December 1923), unmarried and without issue; lives in Żywiec
3. Karl-Albrecht Maximilian Leo Maria Dominic Prince of Altenburg (Castle of Saysbusch (Żywiec), Galicia, 4 August 1926 - Castle of Saysbuch (Żywiec), Galicia, 19 December 1928)
4. Renata Maria Theresia Alice Elisabeth Princess of Altenburg (b. Castle of Saysbusch (Żywiec), Galicia, 13 April 1931 -), married in Stockholm on 26 June 1957 Spanish Diplomat Eduardo de Zulueta y Dato (b. Paris, 4 December 1923 -), and had issue

Ancestry

References

External links

• Imperial House of Austria

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