Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este

Ferdinand Karl Viktor (July 20 1821 – December 15 1849), was Archduke of Austria-Este and Duke of Modena.

Born in Modena, he was the second son of Francis IV of Modena and his wife Maria Beatrice of Savoy. His mother was heiress to the Duchy of Modena, because her father Ercole III d'Este had no sons.

Ferdinand married on december 4 1846 in the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna with Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, daughter of Archduke Josef Anton of Austria and his third wife Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg.

Elisabeth and Ferdinand had one daughter, Maria Theresia of Austria-Este (1849–1919), who became the last Queen of Bavaria.

Ferdinand, who was a Field Marshal Lieutenant, died at Brno a few months later at the age of 28 from typhus. His widow remarried with Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria.

Ferdinand is the link in the Jacobite succession between his brother Francis I and his daughter Mary IV and III.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este
2= 2. Francis IV, Duke of Modena
3= 3. Maria Beatrice of Savoy
4= 4. Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este
5= 5. Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este
6= 6. Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia
7= 7. Maria Teresa of Austria-Este
8= 8. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
9= 9. Maria Theresa of Austria
10= 10. Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena
11= 11. Maria Teresa Cibo-Malsapina, Duchess of Massa
12= 12. Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia
13= 13. Maria Antonietta of Spain
14= 14. Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este (= 4)
15= 15. Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este (= 5)
16= 16. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine
17= 17. Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans
18= 18. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
19= 19. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
20= 20. Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena
21= 21. Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans
22= 22. Alderano Cibo-Malsapina, Duke of Massa
23= 23. Ricciardia Gonzaga of Novellara
24= 24. Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia
25= 25. Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg
26= 26. Philip V of Spain
27= 27. Elisabeth of Parma
28= 28. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (= 8)
29= 29. Maria Theresa of Austria (= 9)
30= 30. Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena (= 10)
31= 31. Maria Teresa Cibo-Malsapina, Duchess of Massa (= 11)

Source

[http://www.thepeerage.com/p11157.htm#i111570 The peerage]