![]() ![]() Come and learn why he is a man for these times. He was beatified by the church of God in 2004. He died-some say of a broken heart- in 1922, in penury, at the age of 35, leaving behind 7 born children and a pregnant wife, the Servant of God Empress Zita. Because he refused to abdicate his throne-which he viewed as his vocation from God-even in the face of violence, he was arrested and, with his whole family, exiled to the Portuguese island of Madeira off the coast of western Africa. Calumniated…and yet faithful every step of the way. Because he offered peace as an end to the war, he was ridiculed by war mongers who sought the dismantling of his empire. ![]() In 1916 halfway through World War I, he ascended the throne of a vast empire at the age of 29. Archduchess Sophie is buried in the Imperial Crypt of the Church of the Capuchin Friars in Vienna.Your Hosts, the David & Jocelyne Ross Family, Welcome You! Karl Franz Josef von Habsburg: an inspiring example as a righteous leader, devoted and faithful husband, tender father and loyal friend. She withdrew from court life and died at the age of 67 in 1872. In the same year the Austro-Hungarian Compromise and the introduction of the constitutional monarchy dealt a final blow to her neo-absolutist ideals. ![]() After his execution in 1867 she withdrew from politics. The failure of her son Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico was a heavy blow for Sophie. Sophie was also the emotional centre of the family, and she was an important mother figure to her grandchildren. However, it should not be forgotten that in many respects Sophie had already filled the position of the ‘first lady of the empire’ that Elisabeth refused to assume. Elisabeth rejected outright the traditional role of empress that she was expected to fill, that is, of dedicating herself solely to the continuity of the dynasty as a devoted wife and mother. Since Sophie was the dominant figure at the Viennese court during the 1850s Elisabeth laid the blame for the difficulties she suffered as an inexperienced wife and young mother during her first years at the court squarely at the door of her mother-in-law. Emperor Karl Franz I, Elector Count and Grand Prince of Reikland, Prince of Altdorf, and Count of the West March 1 is the current Emperor of The Empire and Elector Count of Reikland. Karl I having ascended to the throne following the death of the ageing. Sophie had deliberately foregone this position for which she had originally striven, while Elisabeth had had the role more or less foisted upon her, and certainly had little idea of the consequences. following the assassination of Count Karl von Sturgkh in October 1916. Nevertheless, the popular cliché of Sophie as malevolent mother-in-law is too simplistic the clash between the two women arose out of conflicting views of an empress’s role. This places Louens time as a Questing Knight in the 2400s, during Charlens rule. The grand-nephew of Kaiser Franz Joseph, he ascended to the throne on the death of his uncle Franz-Ferdinand and ruled from 1916-1918. Louen was over 70 years old when he ascended to the throne in 2500 IC, having drunk from the Grail while still a young man. ![]() However, she had reckoned without her daughter-in-law’s wilfulness and spirit of defiance. If Karl Franz made the same mistake, then the Everchosen would be the only one to claim victory in the decades to come. Her plans came to fruition when Franz Joseph married his first cousin Elisabeth in 1854.Īt first Sophie saw her young niece Elisabeth, hardly more than a child, as someone whom she could easily shape along her own lines. To this end Sophie planned to marry her son to one of the daughters of her sister Maria Ludovika from the Bavarian ruling dynasty of Wittelsbach. She was in favour of strengthening Austria’s presence in the German lands in order to retain its traditional primacy among the German princes. She regarded the Hungarians in particular as a horde of revolutionary hotheads working openly for the downfall of the Habsburg monarchy. Sophie was strictly against the federalization of the Monarchy, which would have given an increased voice to the various ethnic groups in the political arena. As the ‘secret empress’ she became a figure of hate for the liberal forces in the monarchy. Although Sophie did not openly interfere in day-to-day political decision-making, she was de facto the political mastermind and ‘agenda-setter’ behind her son. Her son, the young emperor Franz Joseph, was steeped in a sense of monarchical mission and was bent on regaining the power that had been curtailed by the revolution, but he was politically inexperienced and dominated by his energetic mother, on whom he relied for emotional support. While Sophie did not become empress as she had once hoped, since her husband Franz Karl waived his claim to the throne, she did gain considerable political influence. ![]()
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