Archduke Franz Karl of Austria

Styles of
**Archduke Franz Carl of Austria**
Styles of; Archduke Franz Carl of Austria
Reference style	His Imperial and Royal Highness
Spoken style	Your Imperial and Royal Highness

Full name
	German: Franz Karl Joseph; English: Francis Charles Joseph

Archduke Franz Karl
Archduke Franz Karl
	Franz Karl at age 75, 1878.
Born	17 December 1802; Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire
Died	8 March 1878 (aged 75); Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Burial	Imperial Crypt
Spouse	Princess Sophie of Bavaria (m. 1824; died 1872)
Issue	Franz Joseph I of Austria; Maximilian I of Mexico; Archduke Karl Ludwig; Archduchess Maria Anna; Archduke Ludwig Viktor;
Full name
Full name
	German: Franz Karl Joseph; English: Francis Charles Joseph
House	Habsburg-Lorraine
Father	Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother	Princess Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily

Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria (17 December 1802 – 8 March 1878) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

Franz was the father of two emperors: Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico. Through his third son Karl Ludwig, he was the grandfather of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Franz Ferdinand's assassination sparked the hostilities that led to the outbreak of World War I. Karl Joseph was the great-grandfather of the last Habsburg emperor Karl I.