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sisionscreen · 5 months
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Johannes Nussbaum (Archduke Maximilian), Devrim Lingnau (Empress Elisabeth) and Philip Froissant (Emperor Franz Joseph) behind the scenes of the second season of The Empress (2022) in a video message for showrunner Katharina Eyssen's win at the Blauer Panther Awards 2023.
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Okay, a weird question: the relationship between Sophie of Bavaria and her husband! Because like. I have this impression from them that they didn't exactly love each other, but got along fine, and also this one tumblr blog suggested a show about Sophie (which I find less interesting as a concept than a show about the 1848 revolution with Sophie as a major character, but nevermind) and it got me thinking about Franzi's old man...
Hello!! Sorry it took me so long (literal months); this is a super interesting question because I wonder about this too. Given that archduke Franz Karl is a very elusive figure, and that most of Sophie's biographies not only are in German, but are also just impossible to get (for me, living in the other side of the world), so I didn’t have much to work with. To answer this ask I used as my main source Jean-Paul Bled’s biography Sophie de Habsbourg, which quotes a lot of Sophie’s letters and diary entries, but there’s probably more out there in other books.
So what do we now about Sophie and Franz Karl’s relationship? Their marriage was arranged, as it was customary. It was part of King Max’s policy of strengthening Bavaria’s links to Austria (after a very long time of the two countries being enemies). Also Sophie’s half-sister Empress Caroline was really into the idea and apparently was the main promoter of the marriage project at the Viennese court (because who doesn’t want their sister to become their daughter-in-law?).
Sophie and Franz Karl met in May of 1824, on a visit the archduke did to the Bavarian royals at their residence in Tegernsee. We don’t have any first impression of Sophie on her future husband, but we do have Queen Caroline of Bavaria’s. She was… hmm… not impressed:
What to say of our little archduke? I thank Heaven that Sophie, with all the qualities that nature provided her, is so reasonable. He is a good boy, worried to do well. He solicits everyone’s advises, but he is terrible (…) He bores me to death. Sometimes I can’t stand it anymore. It’s truth, they say that he’s cultivated and starting to be popular. That should rejoice me, but sometimes I want to hit him. Sophie is so pretty and quick-witted.
Caroline after talking to Franz Karl apparently???
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The one family member that was happy about the marriage was Sophie’s half-brother Crown Prince Ludwig, who wrote to Franz Karl that the closeness of their houses “can only have beneficial effects for our people, that Austria and Bavaria remain linked to each other, is of extreme importance for both of them”. A congratulation that screams political union through and through.
Franz Karl wasn’t considered good looking nor clever nor charismatic - his only true passion was hunting. Sophie was the exact opposite. From the get go they didn’t seem very compatible, but neither voiced any objection to the union and so they got married November 4 of 1824.
I couldn’t find much details of Sophie and Franz Karl’s first years of marriage, Jean-Paul Bled barely mentions him, which could be a result of Sophie herself not mentioning much her husband in her correspondance (Bled notes that during her first trip to Lombardy-Venetia with Franz Karl and emperor Franz in 1825, Sophie only mentions him in her letters once in all the time they were there). But that doesn’t necessarily have to mean they were in bad terms. Perhaps she really thought he was too boring to mention, perhaps she just was being considerate to her mother Caroline who we know did find him violently boring. At least they were fulfilling their marital duties, since Sophie got pregnant at least twice (some claim five times) during the first six years of her marriage, but all these pregnancies ended in miscarriages.
These first years of marriage are also the years from where the rumors of Sophie’s infidelities, either with Napoleon II or with Prince Gustav of Vasa, come from. For what I could find, the agreement is that there just isn’t enough evidence to prove this, and also that it would’ve been very stupid of her part to have an affair under her husband’s nose. Franz Karl, for his part, was either ignorant or indifferent to these rumors, since he never doubted the paternity of his children. After the birth of archduke Karl Ludwig, Sophie wrote that:
I can’t thank Heaven enough for not ceasing to bless me in my children that to this day have given me nothing but joy and satisfaction. My husband is very happy with this third boy and the emperor is enthusiastic (…). He still wants to have them. I’d like to know what he intends to do with this army of archdukes.
So we can assume that everything was going fine in their intimacy.
Franz Karl’s only moment at the center stage of Habsburg history is when he abdicated in favor of his eldest son, and yet he still remains a shadowy figure. We don't really know what he thought or felt during this time, but Sophie mentioned in her diary several times meeting with her husband at her salon the days prior to Emperor Ferdinand’s abdication, and while she doesn’t say what they talked about, giving the dates we could infer that perhaps he wasn’t so eager to give up being emperor as it is often claimed and that Sophie really needed to convince him.
They also were devoted parents who loved their children very much, and were devastated when their only daughter, archduchess Maria Anna, died aged only four years-old after a seizure. Sophie and Franz Karl both agreed that Maria Anna’s body wouldn’t go through the traditional mortuary Habsburg rites of removing her heart because they couldn’t stand the idea of their little girl’s body being cut.
But probably the hardest situation they had to go through as parents was the death of their son emperor Maximilian, executed in Mexico in 1867. Franz Karl, who learned of the news from his son Franz Josef, was the one who told Sophie. She narrates it in her diary as it follows:
The alarmed face of Fr[anz] alarmed me, I asked what was it, if there were news of Max, he told me they weren’t good, I guessed everything and cried throwing myself in his arms “shot, shot”
Franz Karl was at his wife’s deathbed with the whole family, and after Sophie died May 28 of 1872 “collapsed with grief, Franz Karl threw himself at the arms of his eldest son”. He prayed next to her body everyday after, until she was buried in the Capuchin crypt.
I don’t know if I answered your question, since their relationship is hard to put together for me too. Did they love each other? If we think of a devoted, almost obsessive love like the one their son Franz Josef had for his wife, then no. But after everything they went through together during forty-eight years, I find hard to think they did not had any feelings for each other. If they didn’t like each other at first, by old age they both had learned to enjoy each other’s company, since they were together often in the later part of their marriage. Overall their marriage seems to have been an harmonious, if not passionate, at least friendly one.
And I’m all down for a series about Sophie, no matter in which time is set, because honestly I just want something different other than the latest Sisi series whose only goal is to show off how different they are from Marischka’s trilogy and yet they still rely heavily on the mythology established by those movies. A well written series about the 1848 revolution from Sophie's POV would be fantastic and now I want it.
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The so-called “Rose-Petal” Garnitures: a series of four armors and barding with a matching rotella made by Franz Großschedel for the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II for a series of tournaments held on the occasion of the marriage of Archduke Karl II to Princess Maria of Bavaria, so named for the floral motifs which feature heavily in the armors’ etchings.
Each armor is specialized for a particular tournament game: the first, a light armor for the Scharmützel; the second, a heavy jousting armor for the free tourney; the third, a light armor for the Plankengestech; the fourth and final, a tonlet armor for foot combat.
Landshut, Germany, 1571, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Musuem, Vienna.
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best-habsburg-monarch · 5 months
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Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, reigned 1556-1564
Charles V's right hand arm man
From @master-of-the-opera-house:
Good taste in armour: Madonna with child chestplate?? Fox helmet?? SLAY
Mostly uncredited in his role as Charles V's Silly Rabbit in the HRE. Helped his brother take the reigns waaaay before he officially became Emperor, first in 1522 ((lad was only 19!!)) and then in 1531. That's like over 20 years of Lack Of Credit.
Managed to band-aid the reformation situation: ultimately succeeded at reforms ((better than Joseph II did seeing he's up against him))
Ultimate Power didn't make him Act Out like Charles V or.... Joseph II.
Went from being loved in Spain to hated in central Europe to Respected again, how many people can win that back??
Slutty twink proportions like what do you need that small of a waist for for other men to grab it?? ((see armour))
Pretty hands
the HOT SIBLING according to contemporaries including Maximilian I yum
Had 13 kids which is an insane feat if you're a Habsburg who isn't Maria Theresia. Maybe the above had to do with it?
Looked like drag queen/the WINNER of Drag Race France Paloma if you're delusional enough
from @minetteskvareninova: he was completely faithful to his wife and a veritable wife guy? As a 16th century monarch??? The scandal. Are you even a Ferdinand I. girlie if you don't mention Anna Jagiellon?! Ferdinand himself would be PISSED.
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, reigned 1765-1790
Reformer, Patron of the Arts, Archduke of Mommy issues
From anon: "I mean... Does this dude even NEED propaganda?! If this guy doesn't make you root for an absolute monarch, then noone will. Like with the caveat that enlightened absolutism is still absolutism and thus still not a GOOD way to run a state - well, Joseph II. was truly the most enlightened of absolutists. Just the fact that he abolished serfdom and instituted religious tolerance in Habsburg domains is enough to make him stand far above all of his predecessors and successors. Like, all of the other contestants can go home. None of them could ever top that (Franz Joseph I. had several opportunities, but wasn't keen on taking them). Even his other reforms were at worst misguided, but driven by genuine desire to better his country. Plus, you have to feel bad for him - the poor guy busted his ass for the country, just to have to take back a lot of his reforms simply because they were too ahead of their time, both of his marriages were unhappy (partially his own fault, but only partially) and, lest we forget, both of his kids died young. Voting for him is the least you can do for my poor baby!"
anti-Joseph II, from anon: Joseph II anti propaganda cheated like hell and treated his nephew Franz I (II) really mean by denying him company and food sometimes and also insulting him all the time. only good thing about him was that he was in Amadeus (1984) which was a banger film
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pokadandelion · 25 days
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Archduchess Sophie of Austria with her two eldest children, Archduke Franz Joseph (future Emperor of Austria) and Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian (future Emperor of Mexico)
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Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony, early 1800s. Amalie Auguste (13 November 1801, in Munich – 8 November 1877, in Dresden) was a Bavarian princess by birth and Queen of Saxony by marriage to King John of Saxony. Amalie was the fourth child of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife Caroline of Baden. She was the identical twin sister of Elisabeth Louise, later Queen of Prussia as wife of Frederick William IV of Prussia. Three other sisters married King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria and Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria.
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claudia1829things · 10 months
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Ranking of “THE EMPRESS” Season One (2022) Episodes
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Below is my ranking of the Season One episodes from the Netflix streaming series, “THE EMPRESS”, German historical drama based on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Created by Katharina Eyssen and Lena Stahl, the series stars Devrim Lingnau and Philip Froissant as Empress Elisabeth and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria:
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1.  (1.05) “Shoes” – Archduke Maximilian gathers support for a plan to overthrow his older brother, Emperor Franz Joseph I, while Empress Elisabeth’s well-intended gesture with a crowd backfires, leading her to befriend the dubious lady-in-waiting, Countess Leontine von Apafi.
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2. (1.06) “The God Who Us Has Freedom Sent” – In the season finale, Elisabeth spends her time partying with Maximilian while Franz is desperate to reconcile with her. Leontine gets herself into a precarious situation.
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3. (1.01) “One’s Place in the World” – In the series premiere, Elisabeth (then Duchess of Bavaria) and her older sister Duchess Helene of Bavaria travel to meet Emperor Franz, who is expected to ask for the latter’s hand. He stuns everyone with a surprise decision at an engagement party.
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4. (1.03) “The Wedding” – Elisabeth marries Franz, and the Austrian Imperial Family gets a taste of her rising popularity. The former lover of Archduchess Sophie, Franz’s mother, attends the wedding and discovers a secret.
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5. (1.04) “The Hunt” – Sophie and the Imperial cabinet push for military action against Russia, but Franz refuses to engage. Elisabeth upsets Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich, the Russian czar’s heir, during a royal hunt, leading to severe political consequences.
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6. (1.02) “The Arrival” – Elisabeth arrives in Vienna for her wedding. Soon, she faces palace intrigue, while Franz attempts to prevent his country from taking sides during the Crimean War.
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roehenstart · 11 months
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Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802–1878). By Leopold Kupelwieser.
He 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 (whose assassination sparked the hostilities that led to the outbreak of World War I) and the great-grandfather of the last Habsburg emperor Karl I.
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I agree with you on the ask but I don't understand your supporting examples
Of Queers and Tattoos?
I could go on and on about how the use of the word, "traditional," in that ask was deeply problematic and ignorant. Queer people and tattoos have always existed, just because they're not permitted by "traditional" Christian belief systems does not mean that their existence has been erased or forgotten. The photos I used were of Fredrick IX of Denmark and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (the one who got overthrown); allegedly George V was tattooed by the same guy as Freddy Boy, but I could not find photo evidence. Currently, I know Crown Prince Fredrik (of Denmark) has a tattoo on his thigh, Princess Eugenie (of York) has one behind her ear, and Princess Sofia (of Sweden) has one on her back. As for the LGBT nobility and royalty link, I urge you to click a few names on the lists and read their wiki. Queer history needs to be remembered, preserved, told, and protected, now more than ever. My personal favorite Queer Royal Historical Figures are: Christina of Sweden - Queer icon of her time, her life and rule is just fascinating. James VI and I - Son of Mary, Queen of Scots. I am a true supporter of Jacobite succession, they were ROBBED. Any descendent of Mary is and Icon, and he certainly came and served. Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria - If you've watched "Die Kaiserin" on Netflix, he's the little boy! He was the openly gay little brother of Emperors Maximilian I of Mexico and Franz Joseph I of Austria (husband of Sissi)
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gogmstuff · 2 years
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Images of 1860s dress (from top to bottom) -
1860 (reproduced in 1889 by Gustav William Henry Mullins) Austrian imperial family group photo (Royal Collection RCIN 2906856). From their Web site 2000X1586 @72 822kj. Photograph of a group portrait of members of the Austrian Royal family. In the back row, standing, from left to right, are Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, Archduke Maximilian (later the ill-fated Emperor Maximillian of Mexico), Charlotte, Archduchess Maximilian (later Empress Carlota), Archduke Ludwig of Austria and Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria. In the front row, seated, from left to right are Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sisi) with Crown Prince Rudolf on her lap, Archduchess Gisela of Bavaria, Archduchess Sophie of Austria and Franz Karl, Archduke of Austria.
1860-1865 Young woman by Raimundo de Madrazo (Setdart - 13Jul22 auction Lot 62). From invaluable.com-auction-lot-raimundo-de-madrazo-y-garreta-rome-1841-versaille-62-c-c4249d59ad; erased spots w Pshop 2867X3544 @150 1.7Mj.
1867 Grandmother's birthday by Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans (V&A). From tumblr.com/blog/view/the-perdita 1495X1823 @72 717kj.
1868 Luise Limbach by Conrad Freyberg (Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum - specific location ?). From Wikimedia 2544X3120 @299 2.9Mj.
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sisionscreen · 4 months
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The horse and stunt team of Filmpferde shared some new behind the scenes photos of Philip Froissant (Emperor Franz Joseph), Devrim Lingnau (Empress Elisabeth) and Johannes Nussbaum (Archduke Maximilian) on the occasion of the first season of The Empress (2022) winning Best Drama Series at the International Emmy Awards 2023.
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The Archduchess saw the Duke of Reichstadt for the last time on the morning of 4 July. Two days later on 6 July 1832, she gave birth to a second son. Once more the bells of the Vienna churches rang out in jubilation, the guns thundered, the flags waved and cheering crowds gathered outside the Castle of Schonbrurm. But in spite of an easy and comparatively painless birth, the young mother was afterwards so physically and mentally exhausted that she spent her days in tears. The baby was given the names of Ferdinand Maximilian, Ferdinand after his godfather the Crown Prince and Maximilian in memory of Sophia's father. The Bishop of Eylau who officiated at the christening, relates that when he visited the Archduchess after the ceremony, she never spoke to him of herself, her husband or her child but only of the Duke of Reichstadt, begging the Bishop to visit him and to help him with his prayers.
Franz Reichstadt was seen to smile for the last time when he was given the news of Ferdinand Maximilian's birth. The will to live, which till now had enabled him to fight his disease, had finally deserted him. In June he was still talking of convalescing in the sun of Naples, but by the middle of July he was resigned to die. It was as well for Sophia that she was spared those last tragic days, that she did not have to hear that terrible, tearing cough which left him without the strength to speak. She was still confined to her room when the end came on the 22 July and only his mother Marie Louise and the Archduke Franz Karl were present at his deathbed. The latter had the unenviable task of announcing Reichstadt's death first to his wife, then to the Emperor, who in a heartbroken letter to Prince Metternich wrote, "My grandson's sufferings were such that death came as a welcome release. It may also have been a blessing for my children and for the peace of the world. But for my part I shall always miss him."
The Emperor Franz was an old man with very few years to live, but the Archduchess Sophia was a young woman who had buried her youth in the Duke of Reichstadt's grave.
Haslip, Joan (1971). The Crown of Mexico: Maximilian and his Empress Carlota
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ukdamo · 3 months
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Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the gable of the north transept at the Votive Church, Vienna.
The Votivkirche is a neo-Gothic style church located on the Ringstraße in Vienna, Austria. Following the attempted assassination of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1853, the Emperor's brother Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian inaugurated a campaign to create a church to thank God for saving the Emperor's life. It was dedicated in 1879.
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best-habsburg-monarch · 5 months
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Napoleon II: Nominally King of Rome from Birth, Disputed French Emperor, Duke of Reichstadt
Franz's dad was a deadbeat who made him emperor at four years old. So, he's his mother's son.
Maximilian III: Archduke of Further Austria, Disputed King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Loser of the War of Polish Succession
(note: This is a round of people who never were actually king of anywhere, even though they had disputed titles)
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pokadandelion · 1 year
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Emperor Franz Josef of Austria with his brother Archduke Maximilian, future Emperor of Mexico
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playitagin · 9 months
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1900-Franz Ferdinand and Sophie
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In 1894, Franz Ferdinand met Countess Sophie Chotek, a lady-in-waiting to Archduchess Isabella, wife of Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen.[23] Franz began to visit Archduke Friedrich's villa in Pressburg (now Bratislava), and in turn Sophie wrote to Franz Ferdinand during his convalescence from tuberculosis on the island of Lošinj in the Adriatic. They kept their relationship a secret,[24] until it was discovered by Isabella herself.
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In 1899, under pressure from family members (especially the Archduchess Maria Theresa, the emperor's formidable sister-in-law and Franz Ferdinand's stepmother) the couple were granted permission to wed.[3] Franz Ferdinand was allowed to retain his place in the order of succession and a suitable title was promised for his future wife. However, to prevent Franz Ferdinand from attempting to proclaim his wife empress-queen or declaring their future children dynasts and thus eligible to inherit the crown (especially that of Hungary, where morganatic marriages were unknown to law) once he ascended the throne, he was compelled to appear at the Hofburg Imperial Palace before the gathered archdukes, ministers, and dignitaries of the court, the Cardinal-Archbishop of Vienna and the Primate of Hungary on 28 June 1900 to execute by signature an official instrument in which he publicly declared that Sophie would be his morganatic wife, never to bear the titles of empress, queen or archduchess, and acknowledging that their descendants would neither inherit nor be granted dynastic rights or privileges in any of the Habsburg realms.
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The wedding took place on 1 July 1900, at Reichstadt (now Zákupy) in Bohemia; Franz Joseph did not attend the affair, nor did any archduke including Franz Ferdinand's brothers.
The couple had four children:[4]
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg (1901–1990), married Count Friedrich von Nostitz-Rieneck (1891–1973)
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg (1902–1962), married Countess Elisabeth von Waldburg zu Wolfegg und Waldsee (1904–1993). Ironically his descendants married descendants of the Royal Houses of France and Portugal and Austria (Archduke Joseph Arpad).
Prince Ernst of Hohenberg (1904–1954), married Marie-Therese Wood (1910–1985)
stillborn son (1908)
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