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Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor (1792–1806), Emperor of Austria (1806–1835)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
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Francis II and I was the last Holy Roman Emperor from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria from 1804 to 1835. He was also King of Germany, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, and served as the first president of the German Confederation following its establishment in 1815.

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This entry incorporates text from “Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor” 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.