Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg.
the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's wife was named Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. She was born Sophie Chotek and married Franz Ferdinand in 1900. Their marriage was morganatic, meaning that Sophie and her descendants would not inherit the archducal titles or privileges. Both were assassinated in 1914, an event that sparked World War I.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie
Franz Ferdinand's wife was named Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. She was born Sophie Chotek and married Ferdinand in 1900. Their assassination in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, is often cited as the spark that ignited World War I. Sophie was of lesser nobility, which made their marriage controversial within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
On June 28 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were murdered by thugs from the Black Hand.
Franz-Ferdinand was assassinated by the Black Hand, a Serbo-Bosnian terrorist group that wanted Bosnia to be given to Serbia from Austria-Hungary.Specifically, Gavrilo Princip shot Franz-Ferdinand and his wife.
Sophie.
Franz Ferdinand was interred with his wife Sophie in Artstetten Castle, Austria in 1914.
Whenever his uncle, the Emperor Franz Joseph, finally died. His uncle had already been Emperor for sixty-six years when Franz Ferdinand was murdered with his wife. The old Emperor finally turned his toes up and went to his reward two years later, in 1916.
Franz Ferdinand and his wife was shot on Sunday, 28 June 1914. He and his wife had three children together.
The assassination was witnessed by numerous unsuspecting members of the public as well as Oskar Potiorek who was in the car during the assassination, and also the second target as opposed to Franz Ferdinand's wife, Sophie. Franz von Harrach, Ferdinand's bodyguard was also a witness to the assassination.
Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo
Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year old Serb, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.
Franz Ferdinand was travelling in the bosnian town of Sarajevo In an attempted assassination the car following Franz Ferdinand was blown up . After this happened he visited the injured in hospital.Their driver made a wrong turn and then Princip shot him and his wife.
Franz Ferdinand died on June 28, 1914 at the age of 50.
Sometimes. The tubercular teenager who murdered Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie set in motion a train of events that cost 50 million people their lives.