Archduke Rudolf of Austria (b. 1919)

Archduke Rudolf of Austria (b. 1919)

Archduke Rudolf of Austria (born 5 September 1919) is the youngest son of Emperor Charles I of Austria and Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma.

He was born in Prangins, Switzerland where the Austrian Imperial family were staying after they had been sent into exile. He was named after Count Rudolph IV of Habsburg. [cite book |title=Uncrowned Emperor |last=Brook-Shepherd |first=Gordon |year=2003 |publisher=Hambledon Continuum |isbn=1852854391 |pages=54 ]

Rudolf has worked as a Wall Street junior executive [cite news | title = Milestones | publisher = Time Magazine | date = 1953-07-06 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822861,00.html | accessdate =2008-03-01 ] and a bank director.cite web | last = Lundy | first = Darryl | title = Rudolf Syringus Erzherzog von Österreich | publisher =The Peerage | url = http://www.thepeerage.com/p11167.htm#i111668 | accessdate =2008-02-15 ]

Archduke Rudolf was married to Countess Xenia Czernichev-Besobrasov the daughter of Sergei Aleksandrovich Besobrasov and Countess Elizabeta Cheremeteva, on 22 June 1953 at Tuxedo Park, New York., with whom he had four children. Xenia was killed in a car crash on 20 September 1968, in which Rudolf was also seriously injured . [cite news | title = Archduchess Xenia of Habsburg killed | publisher = New York Times | date = 1968-09-27 ]

*Archduchess Maria Anna (b. 1954) married Prince Peter Galitzine (b. 1955)
*Archduke Karl Peter (b. 1955) married Princess Alexandra of Wrede (b. 1970)
*Archduke Simeon (b. 1958) married Princess Maria of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 1967)
*Archduke Johannes Karl (1962-1975)

Rudolf was married secondly to Princess Anna Gabriele of Wrede (b. 1940) on 15 October 1971 in Ellingen, Bavaria. They have one daughter.

*Archduchess Catharina-Maria (b. 1972) married Count Maximiliano Secco di Aragona (b. 1967)

Ancestry

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1= 1. Archduke Rudolf of Austria
2= 2. Charles I of Austria
3= 3. Zita of Parma
4= 4. Archduke Otto Francis of Austria
5= 5. Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony
6= 6. Robert I, Duke of Parma
7= 7. Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal
8= 8. Archduke Charles Louis of Austria
9= 9. Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
10= 10. George of Saxony
11= 11. Maria Anna of Portugal
12= 12. Charles III, Duke of Parma
13= 13. Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France
14= 14. Michael of Portugal
15= 15. Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
16= 16. Archduke Francis Charles of Austria
17= 17. Princess Sophie of Bavaria
18= 18. Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies
19= 19. Maria Theresa of Austria
20= 20. John of Saxony
21= 21. Amelia of Bavaria
22= 22. Ferdinand II of Portugal
23= 23. Maria II of Portugal
24= 24. Charles II, Duke of Parma
25= 25. Maria Teresa of Savoy
26= 26. Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
27= 27. Princess Caroline of the Two Sicilies
28= 28. John VI of Portugal
29= 29. Charlotte of Spain
30= 30. Constantine, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
31= 31. Princess Marie of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

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