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Archduke Karl Salvator
Born(1839-04-30)30 April 1839
Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Austrian Empire
Died18 January 1892(1892-01-18) (aged 52)
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Spouse
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(m. 1861)​
Issue
Names
German: Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Phillipp Jacob Gennarius Ludwig Gonzaga Ranierius
Italian: Carlo Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Filippo Jacopo Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero
HouseHabsburg-Tuscany
FatherLeopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
MotherPrincess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies

Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria (Italian: Carlo Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Filippo Jacopo Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero; German: Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Philipp Jakob Januarius Ludwig Gonzaga Ranier; Florence, 30 April 1839 – Vienna, 18 January 1892), was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg.

Early life and career

He was an Austrian Archduke, a son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and second wife Marie Antoinette of Tuscany. He was a Feldmarschall-Leutnant of the Imperial (k.u.k.) Austro-Hungarian Army.[1][2] He worked with Count George von Dormus as inventor of early self-loading small arms including the Salvator Dormus pistol and the Salvator-Dormus M1893 heavy machine gun.[3]

Family and children

He married in Rome on 19 September 1861 his first cousin Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (Naples, 14 April 1844 – Vienna, 18 February 1899), daughter of his maternal uncle Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, and second wife Maria Theresa of Austria.

Their children were:

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ "Costados Nobres de Portugal", Gonçalo de Mesquita da Silveira de Vasconcelos e Sousa e José Manuel de Seabra da Costa Reis, Livraria Esquina, 1.ª Edição, Porto, 1992, N.º 9
  2. ^ Ribera, José António Moya, Costados, N.º 81
  3. ^ Antaris, Leonardo M. (2017). "In the Beginning". American Rifleman. 165 (10). National Rifle Association of America: 76.
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