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Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria

Austrian archduke (1833–1896)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Archduke Karl Ludwig Josef Maria of Austria was the younger brother of both Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico, and the father of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863–1914), whose assassination ignited World War I. His grandson, Charles I, was the last emperor of Austria.

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“Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria” enters the record as austrian archduke (1833–1896). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Archduke, Karl and Ludwig can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.